RedPenguin
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Has anyone here used 1.3.6 Beta and used Audacity's VOX or Sound Activating Recording Feature?
I'm currently trying it out now, I just have to wait, no real scanner activity in my area right now.
Though it looks promising, though is there and easier way to figure out what level you need to set the VOX-trigger? It asks me what dB and I am not sure what to choose. The only way I seem to get it to work, is to just keep adjusting it, until it records nothing when nothing is there, though I guess this is probably the best way.
I'm curious if this would make Audacity a darn nice scanner recording program, because then you can just edit the file right there, don't even have to reopen it again. LoL.
To me, this may be only a special events type recorder unless I can force it to split every hour or something, because it's annoying to go through a 8+ hour file even with no dead space.
EDIT: Audacity is working nice as a VOX scanner recorder, the most annoying part is how you can't seem to constantly have it save the file, so after you are done, you have to constantly export, which makes it kinda annoying for a day in and day out recording software for your scanner.
EDIT OF THE EDIT: I guess from reading stuff on Audacity's Wiki, it looks like you can defiantly speed up the saving process by simply do a Project Save As to just give it a name, then record, and then you don't have that annoying wait if you don't do a Save As first and I guess it ends up having to move a ton of files at the end.
I'm currently trying it out now, I just have to wait, no real scanner activity in my area right now.
Though it looks promising, though is there and easier way to figure out what level you need to set the VOX-trigger? It asks me what dB and I am not sure what to choose. The only way I seem to get it to work, is to just keep adjusting it, until it records nothing when nothing is there, though I guess this is probably the best way.
I'm curious if this would make Audacity a darn nice scanner recording program, because then you can just edit the file right there, don't even have to reopen it again. LoL.
To me, this may be only a special events type recorder unless I can force it to split every hour or something, because it's annoying to go through a 8+ hour file even with no dead space.
EDIT: Audacity is working nice as a VOX scanner recorder, the most annoying part is how you can't seem to constantly have it save the file, so after you are done, you have to constantly export, which makes it kinda annoying for a day in and day out recording software for your scanner.
EDIT OF THE EDIT: I guess from reading stuff on Audacity's Wiki, it looks like you can defiantly speed up the saving process by simply do a Project Save As to just give it a name, then record, and then you don't have that annoying wait if you don't do a Save As first and I guess it ends up having to move a ton of files at the end.
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