Audacity 2.1.2.0 running so slow

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Chris XYZ
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Re: Audacity 2.1.2.0 running so slow

Post by Chris XYZ » Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:43 am

maybe integrating the open source version of Intel TBB might help?
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Audacity 2.1.2.0 running so slow

Post by Gale Andrews » Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:09 pm

Jersh1084 wrote:I have not used a memory checker, and I'm not sure if I know what that is. Have a link?
Type "mdsched.exe" (without quotes) from the Start Menu or Start Screen for the Windows memory tester.

Read More: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-your-r ... iagnostic/.

The best memory tests are repetitive, run overnight. See for example http://www.memtest86.com/.

But I would not necessarily expect that memory is anything to do with it. Turning off as many other applications as possible while using Audacity might help.

Setting Audacity to 16-bit Default Sample Format in Quality Preferences would halve the data being pushed around. This is a reasonable approach if you are not actually applying effects to the files, as you seem to imply.


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