Anyone using Audacity?

[stan]

On Sun, 06 May 2007 14:54:25 -0400
Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com> wrote:

> I've been using audacity from the Fedora repo on my FC5 system since
> a year ago, and it's worked very well. However, the last update
> 
> /var/log/yum.log.1:Nov 14 12:18:28 Updated: audacity.i386 1.2.5-3.fc5
> 
> badly broke it. With a 30s chunk of generated audio, it seems ok, but 
> with any audio read from a file, the GUI has a terrible lag. E.g if I 
> click on the track to place the cursor, there is a ~1 second lag
> before the audio cursor appears, and during that 1s, the CPU is
> pegged. As I add more audio to the project, the delay gets longer and
> longer. With 45 minutes of audio, the interface delay is 5-6s and the
> CPU is at 100% almost constantly. It's nearly impossible to work with
> the program at that point.
> 
> Is anyone having better success? Does it work better on FC6/7?
> 
> Any ideas for debugging or fixing this?
> 
> <Joe
> 

I am using audacity on fc6 and I have not noticed that issue at all.  I
am not working with files that large though.  Maybe 10 minutes of audio.
The package is different as well, audacity-1.3.2-8.fc6.

You could go to http://audacity.sourceforge.com and ask on the mailing
lists.