Audacity Forum

Are you running out of hard drive space? Is your hard drive highly fragmented? No and no. What version of Windows are you using (for example, XP or 7)? Windows 7. Please can you try 1.3.14 alpha on a long project of over an hour and see if it is improved? OK, actions take like 3-5 seconds to do, bu...

OK, you can scratch all this. I was just working on another project (one considerably smaller), and Audacity ran just fine. It must just be an audio length issue; I'll have to tell my podcast buddies to keep things closer to an hour. Thanks for your help, though.

How much total length of audio is in the project? About an hour and a half. It's usually about this length, but I've never had this problem before. At what point exactly in the editing does the freeze occur? It goes like this: 1.) I highlight a section. 2.) I click cut. 3.) Audacity freezes up, the...

I've been doing a podcast for two and a half years now, and I've always used Audacity because it's worked fine. Last week, I did a factory restore on my laptop (an Acer 5532) because it was geting really cluttered. This week, I downloaded Audacity (the latest version) again in order to put my show t...

I actually managed to fix the problem by downloading the newer beta version, but thank you.

I have the latest version of Audacity running on Windows 7. I have imported MP3's, .aups, etc. that I use (I run a podcast). For whatever reason, none of them can be heard. I see the waveform, and I can open up and hear the files in every other player, but Audacity is completely silent. All volume a...