Opening song file-sluggish

[Mrkil1o1]

When I attempt to open a song file teh search for the song is really, really slow. I can't figure out what's going on here, but it's really frustrating to open a file just to wait and wait and wait.
So help me please!
This is in v 2.0.6 of Audacity coming from the DMG running on a Mac using OS v 10.10.2.

[kozikowski]

teh search for the song is really, really slow.

The search, or you know where the file is and it's slow opening?

When you open a large sound file, Audacity has to blast free drivespace for production "elbow room" and multiple UNDO layers. Also, if you open an MP3, Audacity has to decompress it to high quality, uncompressed. A highly compressed, tiny MP3 may turn out to be huge.

Go (upper menu bar) > Computer. Click your hard drive > Command-I (info).

Read Capacity and Available.

Audacity doesn't yet support Yosemite.

Koz

[Mrkil1o1]

"The search, or you know where the file is and it's slow opening?"

I do know where the file is (and so does Audacity.) So when I said the "search" it's not that I perform a search it's more that Audacity is painfully slow in scrolling through the folder where it knows the song files exists.

"Audacity doesn't yet support Yosemite."

I didn't know that about not supporting Yosemite yet. That could be the problem now, but as I recall (and my recollection is not a sure thing by any means) this was happening well before Yosemite came out-I just didn't need to deal with it a whole lot back then.

"Read Capacity and Available."

There is plenty of available capacity. (I can't tell from what you wrote if you're saying that this could be the problem or not.)

[kozikowski]

There is plenty of available capacity.

Numbers are good. Sometimes our versions of "plenty" are different.

So you point to a folder with a lot of files in it and tell Audacity to scroll down, and then wait....and wait.....

Go > Utilities > Activity Monitor. Does anything float to the top while you're doing this?

I have a large Mac program that can get "stuck" and slowly soak up all available processing cycles. The System gets very sluggish. Then the Mac fan comes on, etc.

I just didn't need to deal with it a whole lot back then.

But now that you're reading audiobooks...

Koz

[Mrkil1o1]

Numbers are good. Sometimes our versions of "plenty" are different.

So what you're saying is that 387 Gb might not be enough free space? Sounds unlikely, but, obviously, I don't know nearly enough about this.

But now that you're reading audiobooks...

Perhaps i'm taking this too literally, but audiobooks aren't involved here just songs.


is there any word about when Audacity will support Yosemite. I know they're often "late to the party", but this is fairly ridiculous!

[kozikowski]

So what you're saying is that 387 Gb might not be enough free space?

No, I'm saying we can't assume you're computer literate. We've been led down the garden path too many times to take anything for granted. The elves are sprayed across nine time zones and have to build your system in our imaginations to make this work. You get good at seeing holes in the construction.

I have 100MB left. Surely that's enough.
It's not, and don't call me Shirley.

is there any word about when Audacity will support Yosemite.

The next version is a major upgrade and should be Yosemite cognizant.

Koz

[kozikowski]

How did that Activity Monitor go?
Koz

[Mrkil1o1]

I've uploaded a screen shot

Screen Shot 2015-02-06 at 11.49.17 PM.png (181.25 KiB) Viewed 888 times

of the activities window looking at Memory for the folder that contains the song files (I just supposed that was what you wanted me to look at, but if it was something different, please, be specific.)

But, in case you can't view that the first two entries were kernal_task (95 threads) and iTunes (25 threads)

BTW thanks for looking at this for me and being patient about it.

[kozikowski]

If you post enough times, the forum moderation will go away and your posts will appear immediately.

Try CPU activity.

Koz

[Mrkil1o1]

OK here you go-what do you see?