I suggest to try another audio backend with Audacity. In the past, we had many troubles, hangups and crashes when using Audacity with Pulseaudio (the default sound server in Ubuntu); the problems stopped when we switched to Jackd. Unfortunely, it is not easy to use Jack in Ubuntu, because you must disable Pulseaudio or install and configure pulseaudio-module-jack.
I prefer to use KXStudio, an Ubuntu-based distribution, because it integrates by default Pulseaudio and Jack working together, using a custom module called "Cadence". I work in a radio station, we have 12 workstations with KXstudio and Audacity is full stable as a rock.
Bye.
2014-08-18 6:24 GMT-04:30 Alan McKay <alan.mckay@xxxxxxxxx>:
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.
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