recording wavs

[Squabsy]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:09:17 -0500, "Michael Hipp" <Michael at hipp.com>
said:
> 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.
> 

The Sound Card is an ESS solo-1
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