I have a collection of audio tracks that runs about 90 mins all-told - when I go to export the full audio the time remaining goes up and up and up until it’s supposed to take well over 18 hours to export an mp3 - an obscene amount of time. If I try to export individual tracks (90 mins themelves), the audio exports in a few reasonable minutes - it’s all when I try and export everything at once that Audacity drags its feet into oblivion.
I found a Reddit thread from about a year back that said “Did you try to export a short track and a long track mixed down together? I found this lovely “feature” recently. If you generate silence in the short track so it’s the same length as the long track it will take as long as you would expect.” It neglected, however, to explain how to do this.
What’s causing my problem, is this solution, and how to I make that solution happen - or fix this problem so I don’t have to do the solution?