[LAU] How-to for simple recording for 3.5 hours?

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:56:14 +0200
Tito Latini <tito.01beta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42:40PM +0000, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
> > Last Sunday I set up my laptop for a 3.5-hour recording session,
> > Audacity crashed after 2.5 hours.  Anyone know why this might have
> > occurred, what to do about it, whether Audacity is in fact best for
> > simple recording?
> 
> 2.5 hours, 44.1KHz, and 4 bytes for sample (i.e. floating point)
> require about 1.55G of disk space for 1 channel. (2.17G for 3.5h).
> 
> Is there enough space on your temporary directory?
> (the default is /var/tmp/audacity-root).

Maybe the WAV file size limit was reached? Wasn't that around 4GB?
WAV64 or somesuch is more sensible for long recording sessions.

Regards,
Philipp