Hi Paul.
A couple of times, while recording (to MP3), I have received a message that VinylStudio had to stop recording. I don't have the exact text of the message, but the gist of it was that there was too much going on on the computer, preventing VS from keeping up.
In most cases that message has seemed to come up as a result of my trying to find/import album art while the recording is in progress. On a few occassions, the lookup/import process exhibited a visible delay, sometimes "hanging" for quite a few seconds.
I'm using a somewhat older, not-too-powerful computer for my "recording system," so it's understandable to me that this kind of thing could happen, particularly when encoding on the fly. That's not really the subject of my question.
My question is, is it possible that some of this CPU contention could lead to a drop-out in the output file, *without* getting the VS "recording aborted" message? On a couple of recordings for which I did not receive the message, I discovered upon playback that a portion of a song was missing.
Things that make me think it might have something to do with CPU contention, as opposed to other causes for a skip:
1. In both cases, the drop-out occurred a ways into the first track, when I likely would have been looking up the track listings and album art.
2. It's possible that somebody in my family (or even a cat!) could have bumped the turntable, but the drop-outs don't *sound* like that. In such a case, I'd expect to hear the needle skip and bounce a little before settling in again. The drop-outs were more like a portion was just removed.
3. I also don't think the drop-outs were the result of debris or scratches on the vinyl. There weren't any noticeable pops before or after the drop-out, and upon re-recording, both recorded without any problem.
I'm just wondering if you can say definitively whether it is possible that a drop-out like that could occur without a warning message and without the recording being aborted. If it's possible that a silent error could be happening it would be nice if that could be avoided. It's not that big of a problem--I can do the lookup stuff either before or after recording--but would like to be able to do the lookups while recording if possible.
Thanks for your help,
Don