Digital Recording with jbr 20 v1

[billy1ear]

I am having trouble creating files while recording from a digital source.
Selected digital as source and have set it up to break the files up by time and start a new file (have also tried it without splits).
I see the level meter moving to the audio and can hear it on the earbuds.
When I go to look for my files they are not there.
I am using yesterdays build and have just upgraded to a larger disk drive, everything else seems ok.
I have made a directory for my recordings and selected it, also looked in the root for the files.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

[pixelma]

Could you give more information about your "upgrade to a larger drive"? If I remember correctly, I remember you telling yesterday that you upgraded to a 160GB one which needs a bit of preparation to be completely usable in an Archos Jukebox Recorder.
But maybe answer some other questions first:

• You only say the trouble is with digital source - did you also try recordings from the internal mic? If so what was the result?
• Do you see the filesize increase in the recording screen or feel the disk spinning?
• Did you successfully record before changing the hard drive?

[billy1ear]

I upgraded to a samsung 160hc. I did a diskpart and a h2format. Saw 149gb after upgrade, did not attempt to partition at 137gb.

answers:
1    You only say the trouble is with digital source - did you also try recordings from the internal mic? If so what was the result?
2    Do you see the filesize increase in the recording screen or feel the disk spinning?
3    Did you successfully record before changing the hard drive?

1    Will test.
2    Did not look (eyesight not the best) will check.
3    No, jbr was full no room for recordings.

Thanks for the reply


EDIT
OK tested and found the mic did not create a file either and file size did not grow, the level bar was moving to my voice. Assume the dig recording would behave the same.

Did I miss a step in creating my hd? should my part have been limited to 137gb?

[pixelma]

I believe you need to deal with this disk a bit differently, especially in an Archos Recorder. Unfortunately I don't know much about it myself and can only point you to the "BigDisk" wiki page which explains a lot about it. As I understand that one, it could mean that Rockbox can't write data away at all (or just in some parts?), though I find it curious that you seem to be able to listen to your music... flawlessly? This is not my area of expertise at all so I step back from guesses and hope someone else will chime in who knows better.

Another thing that keeps me wondering is that you don't mention how you start the recording. Maybe you just don't mention it though so I almost don't dare asking (don't take it personally, I just want to make sure) - but are you aware that you need to start the recording with a button press after entering the recording screen? As soon as you enter the screen, the (encoder here) chip is set to recording mode and you'll see the peakmeters move and you can monitor the sound but it doesn't actually record yet.

[billy1ear]

You fixed me up, did not know about the second button push. When I pushed the button after I was in the recording screen it worked.
You are my new best friend.
Thanks again.