OK here is more detail on what I do. All I am doing is ripping some old LPs. Very simple stuff. Then splitting it up into MP3s Whenever I am ripping if I am using a web browser at the same time, what happens is audacity stops recording as though someone had hit the "stop" button. It does not hand or anything, and I can hit "record" again and it goes (but it still screws up my rip of course) Then when I am done of that an processing, a really simple one. I zoom into the area between songs then I want to play that short clip to see exactly where one song ends and the other begins, and maybe figure out whether there is a few seconds of silence I can cut out. So I hit "play" and then when I hit "stop" at the other end, it hangs solid and eventually gives me the option to kill or wait. I kill it. That one can sometimes happen the very first thing into audacity before I've done any other editing. As for settings - I think all defaults but I'll go through that later. I am using regular Ubuntu not studio. No massive files - just the length of an LP. Usually 45 minutes but it can happen at the 2 minute mark. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user