Exporting clips longer than 2 hours?

[Yessia]

I'm trying to create an mp3 with multiple 1 hour-2 hour long tracks. I have them all imported into audacity fine but whenever I export it only creates an mp3 thats ~2 hours in length, and all of the songs I have imported total about 7-8 hours. Am I missing a setting? I tried looking for a little and didn't see anything.

[kozikowski]

Are you trying to program the background music for a drugstore/chemist?

<<<1 hour-2 hour long tracks.>>>

I couldn't find any natural reason that this would fail, so we'll start looking for unnatural ones. Where did the original tracks come from?

This process can take an enormous amount of room on your computer. How much room is there?

Go > Computer > Select the System Drive > File > Get Info. Read Capacity, Available, Used. Production machines should ever drop below 10% available and that's pushing it with a show that size.

Koz

[Yessia]

The original mp3's are just clips with various dance music on them, they came from a live stream of an event.

I think I had about 20 gigs of free space when I first tried, I have about 40 now, the clips are about 100mb each.

[steve]

the clips are about 100mb each.

They will be MUCH bigger than that when you import them into Audacity. Audacity works with uncompressed audio, and by default uses 32bit data, which makes a 2 hour audio track around 2.5GB.
When you edit a file, Audacity makes a copy of the data so that the action can be undone - so import 8 hours of show (~ 10GB), Normalize it (~ 20GB), boost the bass (~30GB), then to Export it requires space for the exported file.

Why not just use a playlist?

[Yessia]

the clips are about 100mb each.

They will be MUCH bigger than that when you import them into Audacity. Audacity works with uncompressed audio, and by default uses 32bit data, which makes a 2 hour audio track around 2.5GB.
When you edit a file, Audacity makes a copy of the data so that the action can be undone - so import 8 hours of show (~ 10GB), Normalize it (~ 20GB), boost the bass (~30GB), then to Export it requires space for the exported file.

Why not just use a playlist?

Yeah I'll probably just end up doing that. Honestly I'm really unfarmiliar with this sort of stuff and was just curious if it was something easy to do and I was just missing a step. I'd prefer to do it that way over creating a playlist, no big deal though if its difficult/complicated(like it seems to be) I'll just create a playlist. Thanks for the info/advice though!