Seems to happen when working with several tracks at once. One track only a few minutes in length doesn’t seem to affect much.
Scrolling up and down, clicking, dragging, and selecting tracks and waveforms, zooming in/out, changing gain per track, etc is just sometimes painfully slow, laggy, and generally unresponsive.
My specs are more than enough to run everything smoothly.
I have the exact same experience. I’m editing maybe 3 tracks at a time. Pan/zoom/select/import - anything any everything seems to bring on the spinning wheel.
@exwilson
Macs give the spinning wheel when a job or task takes longer than the time allotted to it. You have a bottleneck or restriction somewhere. Your forum identity says you’re on Windows.
What else do you have running? Do you use cloud storage? How full is your internal drive?
Do you have a spinning metal drive? When was the last time you restarted your machine?
When you perform some actions, Audacity saves a copy of the whole show. So each filter and effect you apply can be a lot more data intense than you think.
Some virus protection programs insist on critically inspecting all drive actions as you work. That can really slow things down.
