I've been trying Amadeus Pro (v 1.4) for a day. Its nice - having recently been a PC user I was looking for something as close of as possible to Cooledit - but I'm having a lot of problems working with large files.
Specifically I need to deal with speech-only audio files (MP3, sometimes wav) which may be anything up to 7 or 8 hours long (though the MP3s are usually encoded at 64KB/s rather than say 192.)
I'm finding, that, for example, Amadeus will spent 5 minutes loading a 100MB MP3 file then crash just as it reaches the end, typically with a crash report beginning like this:
(I shan't paste the whole thing here..)Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
Crashed Thread: 9
Also, a WAV file that was saved in Adobe Soundbooth will fail right at the start - with 'This does not appear to be a valid WAV file' - when the same one will load fine in Audacity.
Any suggestions?
In fairness, this problem isn't exclusive to Amadeus - occasionally Audacity will randomly crash as well.
I'm running this on an Intel iMac with Leopard 10.5.6 and 2GB RAM (which I accept needs to be upgraded to 4GB sooner or later) - I've experimented with the amount of memory allowed in the Amadeus preferences - from 256MB to 1024 and back down again.
Thanks,
William