Audacity Forum

Audacity works, even for FLAC to MP3. Great. But, sometimes it takes more than 2 ours to change 4 minutes music from Flac to MP3. Is this normal, or do I have to change a setting somewhere?
Have tried several things, can't find it.

Windows XP? Vista? MAC? Linux?....
Audacity version?

Your computer speed?
Where are your files stored?
Do you save the (empty) project before you start, or do you let it in audacity_temp? Where is it? (Don't you have there trash from hundered crashes from before?)
Do you close audacity after every other or tenth conversion?

stevethefiddle wrote:Windows XP? Vista? MAC? Linux?....
Audacity version?

Windows XP Audacity Version 1.2.6

jan.kolar wrote:Your computer speed? I don't know. (pc is 3 years old)
Where are your files stored? On extra (external) harddisk.
Do you save the (empty) project before you start, or do you let it in audacity_temp?No, I import the file (track), than say 'export as MP3', and than it starts to work. But than, the remaining time starts to add up instead of counting down, and than, half way trough it count's down again!??!!.Is this normal?
Where is it? It is exported to a map called MP3 (Don't you have there trash from hundered crashes from before?) No.
Do you close audacity after every other or tenth conversion?

Yes, but maybe I had some tracks converted together, I don't know.
I've just tried to convert a track, it seems to work pretty nice today.
May be I have been to enthousiastic and had things going on at the same time, I don't know.
Does the converting take more time than the actual lenght of the track?
Speedskater.

Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3.4 or above.

Also, working on an external drive can slow things down a lot. Try working on the internal drive, then after a successful export, copy or move the files to the external drive.

Avoid having other cpu or disk intensive processes running at the same time (such as Windows update, or virus scanning)

stevethefiddle wrote:Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3.4 or above.Done, thanks

Also, working on an external drive can slow things down a lot.I work on the internal drive, only the tracks are taken from and storend on an external drive Try working on the internal drive, then after a successful export, copy or move the files to the external drive.

Avoid having other cpu or disk intensive processes running at the same time (such as Windows update, or virus scanning)

That's helps a lot, I was working with a large calculation program, e-mail program and playing music at the same time. When stopped, Audacity works fine. Thanks a lot.