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Re: Unable to import large (500MB) WAV files

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:59 pm
by Gale Andrews
lightweight wrote:Ok, tried scrubbing my cfg file and upgrading to 2.1.1 via the PPA... no change in behaviour - in fact Audacity crashes after churning for 10 min, still no visible feedback through interface - I just watch the virtual RAM increasing (no appreciable change to disk space)... *sigh*
Did you uninstall 2.0.5 first?

The problem could be in some library that Linux Mint provide. Are you on a 64-bit or 32-bit computer?

A solution to a library problem might be to compile Audacity yourself from the full source tarball, configuring wherever possible with local rather than system libraries.

Just as a point of reference, if you Generate > Tone of 1 hour, export as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit PCM, then import the WAV, what happens?


Gale