Audacity problems

[SturbanClothing]

I like Audacity it's free and easy to use without and crazy features to confuse me, I do a podcast using it about an hour long and file size 100MB but when I convert to MP3 it's taking like 6-8 hours which I know is wrong coz it didn't used to anybody got any ideas, maybe even other software for a PC on a similar tip, I have Acid but have never installed it as it looks so complicated

[Matt3r]

what spec is your pc?
when i used soundforge on my old desktop is took an age to save edits, export etc.
i'm running a laptop with 1.5 gig ram and a 2 gig processer now, and its less than 15 minutes for an mp3 export.

[SturbanClothing]

1G Ram
2.8GHz processor
80G harddrive

[Matt3r]

wierd, there shouldn't be the problem i had then. i take it you've got winlame installed? if so I really don't have a clue, if not maybe that's an issue

[SturbanClothing]

yeah I have LAME, I did find some random files in the Audacity folder yesterday and removed them as they were bloating things need to do a test really. Will let you know how I get on

[nowaysj]

Reinstall audacity. And think twice before deleting a programs files.

[wormcode]

Audacity is pretty slow at encoding/decoding. I've noticed it takes double-triple the amount of time it takes Sound Forge on my studio system, which is pretty beastly itself. Take the wav file and try something like Razorlame + latest LAME encoder. Both free of course, and very good.

[SturbanClothing]

well i've downloaded the latest version of Audacity installed it with LAME and still it's saying 6 hours to convert to MP3

maybe it's the size of the file I'm trying to compress it's 1.3G am I doing something wrong or does that sound right for a hour long aup data folder?

[Matt3r]

i just checked the data files I have for an hour long mix in june and that is 1.42 gig, so I don't think the size should be an issue.

[Matt3r]

are you bouncing the mp3 down to the same drive as the original, and are the files all located on a local drive?

[SturbanClothing]

are you bouncing the mp3 down to the same drive as the original, and are the files all located on a local drive?

the aup file is on the C drive and I'm saving the mp3 to that drive but some of the original source files of on another external drive

[Matt3r]

it might be worth copying the source files to the local drive perhaps.

[SturbanClothing]

worth a try, i'll let you know how it goes on

[serox]

This may have something to do with temp files on ur computer. I think converting audio can build some kind of memory on ur PC and when that gets maxed it will take forever to render audio.

[SturbanClothing]

are you bouncing the mp3 down to the same drive as the original, and are the files all located on a local drive?

Problem solved it was due to source files being on an external hard drive so I now have to put all tracks into a folder on the C drive once it's mixed and saved I export it to MP3 took 15 mins then delete the tracks from my C drive.


thx all for the help

[Matt3r]

sweet no problem dood

[86.]

are you bouncing the mp3 down to the same drive as the original, and are the files all located on a local drive?

Problem solved it was due to source files being on an external hard drive so I now have to put all tracks into a folder on the C drive once it's mixed and saved I export it to MP3 took 15 mins then delete the tracks from my C drive.


thx all for the help

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