Overly large files causing latency

[Dman883]

I’ve spent the last hour or more trying to figure out why I have a 1 second delay from the time I press play to when I hear the audio. I finally saw that the aup3 file size was 4GB instead of the typical 200-600MB. I exported it as a wav and imported it, and that seems to have fixed it, but I lose any clip boundaries and notes I added, which slows down my editing for voiceover work. It has nothing to do with undo history as it opens at 4GB and has no history. What am I missing?

[kozikowski]

There is another poster with a similar problem.

Issues With Large Project

I have a large project (4.39 GB) that has been having a variety of issues lately. The first think I noticed was that while the project is playing, I cannot edit certain tracks’ Realtime effects without the program freezing up; I usually have to end up closing it via task manager because it will not shut down otherwise. I had to set the buffer size to 400 because one day I opened the project and the playback was choppy and awful. Most recently, I tried recording a new track and almost 500 dropout…

They have a 20 minute show whose project is taking up 4,390 MB instead of the expected 643 MB.

Audacity Projects are larger than you think because Audacity runs in a very high quality sound format. It’s not a WAV file, or worse yet an MP3.

Maybe someone will drop in with some ideas.

Which Audacity are you using? There’s a fuzzy rule. Audacity 3.3.3 and 3.4.2 are reasonably stable, not so the two in the middle,

Koz

Koz

[Dman883]

3.3.3. I didn’t care for some of the changes in the newest update, so I stuck to this one. It has done to only a couple of the 20+ recordings in the project. Was hoping to find out if it’s something I’m doing so I can stop doing it.