[Audacity-devel] Re: 3 Audacity 1.1.3 Comments.

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your e-mail.  I'm butting in here - as I've only just started
work on Audacity and it's many others who deserve the credit, but I
do want to respond to your suggestions.

> 1) the cursor makes a selection too easy in my opinion.  It's frustrating
> sometimes trying to set a play ? posistion and ending up playing a split
> second of audio instead.  Maybe if you clicked on the ruler it could
> set a start position?

Yes.  This will be fixed in the next beta.  In future if you really want to
select a small region you'll  have to zoom in first (so that it becomes a
larger region).  The threshold that defines what the size of a 'small
region' is in pixels will be settable in preferences.

> 2) the undo undoes eveything I do, I swear if I went to grab a
> coffee it would be in the undo buffer.  This might be me, but I
> think it would be nice to only undo audio processing.  Sometimes
> I'll do a few passes of plugins and want to backtrack.  I usually
> have to go back to the last pass that visually altered the wave
> form so I know where I am.

Thanks, yes it's a good idea and it has been noted for future
reference but is unlikely to make the next beta.

> 3) just trying to edit a wav file is cumbersome. It doesn't seem to
> edit the file in place and there's nowhere to save in this manner.
> So then I try to export as wav over the file I have loaded, which
> is of course locked, grrr...

Try setting your preferences->file-format to 'make a copy'.  Now
when you come to save the wav file it will not be locked and (after
confirming you want ot overwrite it) export will work just fine.

If this is what you were looking for, we should add a comment
about this in the documentation.



Doug, thanks for your helpful feedback.

--James.