Re: [Audacity-devel] Behaviour of Ctrl+I and drag and drop

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 06:18  AM, Markus Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just add a lengthy email conversation with someone evaluating 1.2-pre1.
> He suggested the following, which makes sense for me:
>
> When Audio is dragged/dropped to the project window (which internally  
> is
> the same function as "Import Audio (Ctrl+I)" IIRC), the project sample
> rate is changed according to the sample rate of the imported audio.  
> This
> was not the case in 1.0.
>
> I think the best behaviour would be if Ctrl+I and Drag/Drop wouldn't
> affect the project samplerate, but Ctrl+O would. This is because when I
> want to edit a single file, one uses Ctrl+O (from the file menu), but
> when one wants to add files to a multitrack project one would use  
> Ctrl+I
> or drag/drop.

My only problem with this is that drag/drop onto an empty project is
pretty similar to "open".

The problem is that I can't think of a solution that wouldn't confuse at
least some users.  Beginning users will try to drag and drop a single
16 KHz wave file into a window, edit it, and then export it, and they
will be surprised if they get a 44 KHz result.  Experienced users might
set the project rate to 48 KHz, then import their first track, which
happens to be at 44 KHz, only to find that the project rate got set to
44 KHz even though that's not what they wanted.

Would this be a good candidate for a dialog box?  Two possibilities:

1. A warning box:

    "Warning: the audio file you imported is at 16 KHz, but the project
     sample rate is 44 KHz.  To change the project sample rate, use the
     control in the lower-left corner of the window."

    [x] Don't show this warning again.             [OK]

2. A choice:

    "The audio file you are importing is at 16 KHz, but the project
     sample rate is 44 KHz.  What would you like to do?"

     (x) Change project sample rate to 16 KHz
     ( ) Keep project sample rate at 44 KHz (and automatically resample  
track)

     [x] Always do this next time                  [OK]

- Dominic

> RFC
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> Markus
>
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