Export Time remaining on goes UP!

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hi guys,

I’m new to the forum. I produce a weekly podcast and Audacity has been great since January but recently has been acting up. When I try to export in mp3 format, it used to take 3 to 5 minutes - now the “time remaining” ticker starts around five minutes and then INCREASES. It will usually climb over an hour after ten seconds of exporting and I normally bail before then.

I’m using a mid 2014 13 inch Macbook Pro running El Cap. When it does this to me I usually move my project files over to a thinkpad W500 running Elementary OS and export it using Audacity on that machine.

I’ve reinstalled audacity and reinstalled several times. Any idea what the problem could be?

Thanks in advance!

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Did you post this about a week ago?

Audacity has a problem where if you have greatly mis-matched music tracks, the Time Remaining is reported wrong. I believe the actual export is normal, just wait it out. It should complete in the usual time.

Koz

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I’ve seen this problem too. But that was with a previous version of Audacity. Are you on the latest version (2.1.2)?

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2.1.2 has this problem. It is necessary to do without an accurate time remaining or select all the tracks and Tracks > Mix and Render before export.

It will be fixed when 2.1.3 is released.


Gale