recording wavs

[Michael Hipp]

Squabsy wrote:
> I'm really stumped & frustrated now. My PC is a similar spec to yours
> Michael  (but with a K6 processor) but my recording, even using this sox
> rec,  still hangs after 7 mins and creates a 2gb wav file with 7 mins of
> music then 100 (approx) mins of d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d
> 
> I was beginning to accept that it might be a ram issue but you only have
> 256m like me.
> 
> Disk space seems irrelevant also as it does the same on all my partitions
> however much/little is free.
> 
> using a different window manager made only a marginal diff (a few extra
> seconds at most)
> 
> I can therefore record an album one track at a time (unless it's Pink
> Floyd :-) with an 8 min freak out ) but I would like to be able to leave
> it running for a whole side then come back and slice it up.
> 
> There must somewhere be an option or setting that I have set incorrectly
> but I'm blowed if I know what it is

I'd be most tempted to suspect the sound card. What kind is it?

Might be worthwhile to test your memory using one of these:
http://www.memtest86.com/ 
http://www.docmemory.com/page/products/doc/docinfo.asp

The second one requires a Win9x machine to make the bootable disk, but 
it appears to be a somewhat more thorough test.

Michael