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I'm currently editing long audio tracks into a rather large project -- or at least it will be; when it's finished it should fill out an 80-minute CD, and so far I've got around 15 minutes down.

The first 10 or so minutes were fine; I mixed an 8:19 track into an 8:36 track to make a 16:36 track. However, when I went scanning the end of the second track to find a suitable place to mix the third track, the spectrum hangs. Here's a screenshot:



The black lines are from when I tried to zoom in again after the spectrum apparently hung.

My computer has an Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (2.19GHz) and 2GB of RAM.

Does anyone know how to keep the spectrum analyzer from hanging? I'd really prefer not to use the waveform.


Edit: I'm editing .wav files by the way.

Bump.

The spectrum view is an incredible devourer of compute resources - it is much much compute-intensive view than either of the Wave views

My personal preferred view to work in is Waveform (dB).

As an experiment I just switched my view on a playing project at a similar zoom level to your posted clip - and it took Audacitity around 40 secods to re-calculate the Spectrum view.

Why not try working in Wave or Wave (dB) and then switching to Spectrum only when you really need it. I used to switch to it for identifying clicks, but only when well zoomed in, where the clicks show up as pink lines.

WC

Yeah, I've since gotten used to the waveform. I used the spectrum for identifying the basslines since it was clearer than the waveform, but I think after a certain point the spectrum just stops working or takes too long to render to be practical.