AUDACITY SKIPS WHILE RECORDING MAC

You may not hear skips while listening during the recording, but you will hear them on playback. If it sounds like recording is skipping, or small fragments are sometimes missing, this means that Audacity cannot write the audio to disk fast enough to keep up with what it's recording. So Audacity could now appear much worse than previous releases, when in actual fact Audacity is just alerting you to a problem that you previously would not have been aware of - or might have put down to a bad microphone or poor recording technique. You may have been experiencing dropouts and not noticing, they are not discernible while recording only on playback. How can I record without small skips (dropouts) or duplications? Why is my new track out of sync with the previous ones, or sounds crackly or at wrong pitch?.

AUDACITY SKIPS WHILE RECORDING MAC

This prevents the Mac shutting down the audio system when there is no playback.

A few users have reported that Antipop helps.

This should prevent the Mac putting Audacity into a paused state when it does not have focus.

Right-click or Control-click Audacity.app then 'Get Info' and enable the ' Prevent App Nap' checkbox.

Mitigate power saving features in Mavericks or later that can interfere with recordings.On the Input tab, make sure that the sample rate and number of channels matches with those chosen in Audacity. If you are recording from an external USB or FireWire interface, open /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup and select the device.If recording breaks up or does not start, increase 'Buffer Length' in increments of 10 milliseconds until recording is smooth. Open Devices Preferences and adjust the ' Buffer Length' setting.How can I prevent clicky recordings on Mac?

Audacity skips while recording