I often have to edit long audio files (two hours of stereo sound is not unusual). My workflow involves often moving very small segments (less than ten seconds) unto a separate track, adjusting the timings of these segments, and mixing it back together at the end. I’ve used audacity to do this for years.
I was on an older version for a long time (can’t remember exactly which), but recently I updated and now, whenever I split off a small segment of audio and try to move it to another track, it takes over a minute to do it. This absolutely kills my workflow to the point that I either have to stick to an old version of Audacity, or find a different program.
I haven’t been able to pin down exactly what version this problem was introduced in (it was there at least in 3.4.2, and it’s still there in 3.7.3), bit I suspect it might be due to the “smart clips”-feature (meaning it might be copying the entire two-hour track every time I try to copy five seconds of it).
There was a forum thread (several in fact) requesting a feature to turn smart clips off, but these were closed after some time.
Is there something I can do (other than downgrade to an old version), to reduce the wait times?
