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#31

Technical Support / Re: Mix down to mono

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 25, 2026, 10:04:08 PM

Worthy points, but you can always uncheck it later in the Edit Album Details dialog.  It doesn't affect recording in any way, only saving.

#32

Technical Support / Re: How to Delete a Wav file ?

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 25, 2026, 10:02:57 PM

Another trick is to hold down the Alt key while deleting a track.  That preserves the markers.  Also (and probably best), you can keep the unwanted tracks and untick 'Include in saved tracks' in the Edit Track Details dialog for the tracks you don't want to save.

#33

Technical Support / Re: Mix down to mono

Last post by wallewek - March 25, 2026, 09:56:40 PM

This "mix down to mono" thing seems to have bitten me as well. 

When recording old mono records, I try to remember to click that little "mix down to mono" box.  The catch is that sticks!  If I then record a stereo LP and forget to unclick it, I can easily go through several LPs before I notice it check. 

Could I suggest that the Record window have the "Mono" shown clearly? 

FWIW, it's not listed in Recording Options either (at least not when recording), and the Help document doesn't seem to mention "mono" anywhere at all.  Takes a bit of digging to find.

#34

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 25, 2026, 09:41:27 PM

Thanks for your reply -- maybe I'm not saying it correctly. 

When it detects end of side, there is a dialog box (in yellow) that contains a countdown timer waiting for needle drop for side two.  If I get the record flipped and needle dropped before the timer reaches zero, it clearly continues recording on the Side 1 recording.  But if I don't, the dialog reverts to waiting for me to click Record.  If I don't click in time, it seems to ignore incoming audio.

I'm a little confused by that, though, because even though it seems to be waiting for me to click record, I'm not positive whether it's really recording the audio or not.  I don't think it says "Recording" but I dunno, maybe it is.

For now, I just watch that timer like a hawk, and don't drop the needle of it's close and I need to click Record first.

I don't see how it could be related to max recording time as it's always the same timeout, maybe 20 seconds or so.

#35

Technical Support / Re: How to Delete a Wav file ?

Last post by Andy Morris - March 24, 2026, 05:28:36 PM

In Split Tracks view:

I would drag the green flag from the start of track to just before the end of the track

Then delete the track

I think that does it.

#36

Technical Support / How to Delete a Wav file ?

Last post by Geek - March 24, 2026, 09:25:38 AM

Whilst I like the VinylStudio Program, the one thing that I do hate is the poor response to deleting a track. I imported several wave files with a view to creating a CD. There were two tracks that I wished to delete and after using a past Windows Program Spin It Again, I thought that the track would most likely be shaded out and not used after delete. What I found was that nothing seemed be done to the track and it stayed in place! However in the split track mode, all the track pointers - beginning and end – moved! They didn't move in any particular logical method but moved into parts of the recorded tracks. I spend no end of time moving the track markers to the silent parts thinking that I had got away with things. Then I find that the track is still listed but the listings do not relate to the tracks anymore! Furthermore trying to correct things within the track layout only make matters worse. The one irritation I find is that there is no explanation as to how track deletion works.

It would be good if this was explained. Thanks

#37

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 24, 2026, 09:21:14 AM

Hi,

We don't *intend* for there to be a timeout while waiting for you to drop the needle for side 2.  As an interim measure, you might like to increase the maximum recording time, perhaps there's a bug in that area.

As for 'Scan for Track Breaks' going wild and creating lots of tracks, we now have two reports of this but have not yet been able to reproduce the problem here so we can't diagnose it.  If you have a reproducible case, please let us know and we'll follow it up.

#38

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 18, 2026, 05:51:37 PM

Well, that mostly worked, but when I scanned for track breaks, after it found the proper tracks, it seemed to go nuts and create a whole lot of empty track breaks.  I hit Esc stop the break creation loop and used Del to delete the bogus ones, and after that all seems fine.

So the only remaining question is about starting side 2 cleanly -- who waits for who?

#39

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 18, 2026, 05:19:18 PM

I think I've answered my own question for the first part, at least.

I deleted all the tracks from side 2 of the first recording, and also all the second recording (nominally just side 2 track 1).  Now I'm re-recording side 2 as part of the second album.  My theory is that it will merge with the first recording. 

#40

General Discussion / Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 18, 2026, 12:31:42 AM

I read the help docs, but couldn't see what I need to know about this.

VS does a really great job continuing recording of side 2 of LPs, but if you take too long to flip and drop the needle, it times out waiting and you need to click Record before you drop the needle, or it will cut off the start of side 2.  Am I missing something, and/or is there a way to extend that timeout?

Pursuant to that, I had this cutoff occur with and album I was recording yesterday, and I figured I could just re-record that first track and patch it in. But no, it appears there's no way in VS to do that, so can I just delete that side 2 recording and re-record it?  Or is there a better way I'm overlooking?

Thanks for all the help!