Audacity question

[scotman]

Hi all

Does anyone have any idea how much RAM is needed to run Audacity properly?

I have a 3 hour recording(160MB) that I want to break down into 3 1-hour segments. My system seems to be struggling with this task.

Running XP Home + SP3 with 1GB RAM.

thanks for any suggestions

[Answerprancer]

I wouldn't try running any music software with anything less than 2 gig of RAM.

[ChuckFickens]

Audio and video editing requires as much ram as you can throw at it, otherwise you'll just end up swapping to the hard drive all the time and it will be slow.

Assuming you have a 32bit version of XP then it won't see anything over about 4GB (and will use around 3.5 of that)

So simple answer, the more the better upto 4GB, but you'll see a huge difference just going to 2 or 3GB.

(1GB is the bare minimum I'd suggest running XP on it's own with these days)

[Beswad]

I use to used Audacity to edit and record music on my Pentium III laptop with 256Mb RAM running Windows 98. It ran ok without any problems.

[AlBags]

Simple cutting/snipping should be ok with that.
Must be other processes running .. or badly fragged up?

[scotman]

Thanks to all

I think I will have to do this in stages by just removing the bits I don't want 3 times from a working file. Copy and paste to new file ain't working.