Audacity Forum

Ok, tried scrubbing my cfg file and upgrading to 2.1.1 via the PPA... no change in behaviour - in fact Audacity crashes after churning for 10 min, still no visible feedback through interface - I just watch the virtual RAM increasing (no appreciable change to disk space)... *sigh*

Many thanks Gale, will give both a try (happy with installing from PPAs ) and report back.

Tried importing one track again, this time shifting the Audacity tmp/working directory to the external (USB) drive also holding the WAV files (200GB free space)... Same behaviour - big CPU hit and disk activity (but not much writing to disk), no visible progress in interface, but steadily mounting m...

And, no, I don't get any track information showing in the interface - no visible indication of progress in the Audacity interface at all.

I can play the mono tracks in VLC individually without issue.

Are you sure - this is already lossless, does Audacity store it at greater than WAV resolution?! For what it's worth, when I told the importer to use the WAV files in-situ rather than copying them, it chugged away for a long time, but didn't seem to use additional disk space.

I've recorded two 500MB WAV files (left and right channels) - a band rehearsal. I want to import both channels into Audacity to snip the tracks up into individual songs and snip out chatter from between songs. I can't get either track to import - I've waited 20-30 minutes with Audacity churning away...