Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> írta:

* Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@freemail.hu> [01-01-70 12:34]:

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Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@freemail.hu> írta:

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Hello:

I used audacity to record sound onto the hard disk from my soundcard.

Despite of plenty of free hard disk space audacity stopped recording at 125 minutes.

Can I record longer sound sample than 15 minutes? How?

15 minutes was atypo. Can I record record more than 125 minutes?

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_how_to_s.html#remaining

Patrick, jdd: Thanks for the link above. I did not look at it before. Before I started to record, I set "Temporary files directory" in the preferences to the partition with enough free space (I don't dare to say plenty, as 5-10 GBs is not plenty nowadays). At the beginning of recording audacity reported ~7 hours remaining recording time. I was not there when audacity stopped recording. I don't know what made audacity finish recording, I just noticed afterwards that the recording was interrupted prematurely. Other applications (web browser, streaming application) were still running OK. There is one thing I found strange during recording: top showed xorg's CPU usage the highest, ~36% (old sytsem), firefox and firefox plugin both ~20%, and pulseaudio ~15%. I guess xorg's high cpu usage might be explained by drawing the waveform in audacity (?). Is there a way to turn it off, that is make recording without showing it? I also find pulseaudio's 15% high, especially that I turned of all pulsaudio related gui (pavucontrol). Just for completeness, I use openSUSE 12.2 with KDE 3.5.10. Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Le 09/04/2014 00:10, Istvan Gabor a écrit :

Thanks for the link above. I did not look at it before.

anyway you are far from this maximum

Before I started to record, I set "Temporary files directory" in the preferences to the partition with enough free space (I don't dare to say plenty, as 5-10 GBs is not plenty nowadays).

should be enough At the beginning of recording

audacity reported ~7 hours remaining recording time.

looks good I was not there when

audacity stopped recording. I don't know what made audacity finish recording,

did you look at the system logs? could it be a power (AC) failure? is the computer a laptop or a tower with UPS? a power failure could affect the other part of the recording link (but you should have recorded blank in this case) I frequently do 5-6h recording, but not with computer/audacity (I use a zoom H2 device). Audacity records by small chuncs and is not hit by the large file problem as long as it runs you should,if possible, try again to record (dummy) just to see if audacity stops again after a similar time, may be there is something in your install or hardware uncommon? gook luck :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

auxsvr@gmail.com írta:

On Tuesday 08 of April 2014 23:33:08 Istvan Gabor wrote:

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Hello:

I used audacity to record sound onto the hard disk from my soundcard.

Despite of plenty of free hard disk space audacity stopped recording at 125 minutes.

If I remember correctly, the .wav file format has a maximum size of 2GB, which is roughly two hours at 44.1kHz, 16 bit. Did you try changing the file format? Usually, I encode directly to mp3 to avoid this limit.

I did not know this. Apart from it, Audacity records to small files and the wav, mp3 and other file formats come into the picture only when you export the recorded sound. I will try to record again to see if it happens again. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org