Hi Philip,
First I'm going to answer your question regarding the file splitter.
There are numerous free ones to be found ,but one I have used satisfactorily for years
is HJSplit http://www.hjsplit.org/
"HJSplit for Windows and Linux support file sizes of over 100 Gigabytes, MD5 checksums, file-compare, "run without install" and both editions are fully portable."
Secondly ,you have to be aware of the limitations of your system.
You're running XP SP2 and therefore start off with a handicap.
I'm not criticizing your system .As far as I'm concerned people can run what they like.
It's not up to me to dictate what they should run or not run, but at least be aware of the limitations.
SP3 has some improvements over SP2 ,but the main hang-up is that XP can't handle files that are way over 4GB
not all that well since RAM on XP is limited to 4GB.
A larger paging file will help but your limits are more or less "built in", so you will experience slowdowns with
those very large files.
As an aside ,anybody who uses a computer a lot for dedicated functions, like Audio- ,Graphics- or Video editing,
should turn off any not related services. No internet connection ,No automatic updating of ANY program,
including Windows Updates, No Indexing ,No AV or anti-malware running or scanning.No System sounds.
No unrelated programs running in the background.No printers or scanners etc(including their services.) No screensavers.
Install the maximum amount of RAM that the machine will take ,especially for video editing.
So ,to come back to your questions:
You could increase your paging size to 3GB or 1.5X physical RAM.
Even try 2x physical RAM and see if there's an improvement.
Keep in mind that the paging file (the hard drive) is a lot slower than RAM.
Your only solution - without changing hardware - is to limit your file sizes (and not forget to stop between sets)
Peter E.
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From: "Phillip Williams"
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 3:14 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCSOFT] splitting large audio files
Greetings all,
I have a computer set-up for live recording of my garage band. It's a
Pentium 4 3.20GHz hyper-threading rig with 2 gig ram, a 250 gig WD
SATA drive, 2 pci cards connected to (2) 8-channel microphone
interface units and xp home sp2 with a 2046mb paging file size setting
(too much ??).
I'm using Adobe Audition for multi-track recording, mix-down and
mastering. When we're playing, it's easier to just let it record for
the whole set rather than stop between songs, walk across the room to
the mixing console and pc to stop recording and save each track as
well as the session settings then set it up to start recording again.
However, considering the total file size of all the tracks and session
settings can add up to over 6 gig (12gig when I forget to stop between
sets), I have a problem opening the files later for editing as it
often locks up the pc (especially the accidental 12 gig round).
I've put the question of remote operation of the pc to the PCbuild
list but I would like to know if there's a cheap (or free) solution
for splitting the large files I can't access into smaller files. The
session files are small enough to work with but the audio (wave) files
are where my problem lies. I can save the songs individually if I can
access them and I think that as long as I retain the original files, I
can re-split them if the first split should happen to cut part of a
song off.
Any thoughts?
Phillip
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