Intel OpenVINO install takes forever on Windows - what to do?

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Hi, I just downloaded Audacity on my Windows10 Dell laptop and want to use it with Intel OpenVINO, but it only keeps installing FOR-E-VER, from Musehub.

The violet thing in the bottom is rolling & rolling and it says “Installing OpenVINO AI tools”, since I don’t know how many minutes, and I do’t see anything that would show the progress.

Any suggestions what to do?

I need a vocal remover RIGHT NOW, to use the instrumental tracks of my songs for a show, and the Audacity website says this is the plugin I should use for that.

Thanks in advance!

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The OpenVINO model files are huge. Especially if you are downloading the largest ones or all of them.

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Oh thanks, there is hope then, I just have to wait and be patient :slight_smile:

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UPDATE: it did take more than one hour… but it’s installed!

Thanks again @Wrecks0

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Note that installing the plugins from MuseHub will automatically download / install all (or at least, most) AI models (and yeah, that’s a lot of downloading). If you instead download the plugin installer from here (https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/releases/download/v3.7.1-R4.2/audacity-win-v3.7.1-R4.2-64bit-OpenVINO-AI-Plugins.exe) , you can select which models to install.

Furthermore, our next release of the plugins will allow user to install models directly from the Audacity UI.

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Hello, thank you!

It has installed in the way I tried it in the first place, only it took more than an hour.

And it worked great with the first audio file :slight_smile: