On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, James H.G. Redekop wrote:
> I'm helping a musician friend dub some of his old albums over
> onto CD, and I've run into a snag. Every once in a while, the
> file written to the hard drive has a drop-out of about 1/5 of
> a second, which results in a pop in the sound -- and, of course,
> missing music.
What else is running while you are doing this? When you do this kind of
recording, its best to make sure that the system is doing little else.
Also, maybe try a program other than snd to make sure that the problem does
not lie there -- maybe try brec and record raw, then later convert it to wav
and aiff with sox.
I bought a SCSI drive for hd recording when I had problems with dropout, but
the problem ended up being the version of the sound driver I was using; I
upgraded to a newer version and now have no problems at all, even recording
on my EIDE drives.
