[Audacity-devel] VU Meters on OS X; 1.2.2 issues

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

I fixed up the VU meters a little so that they look better on OS X.  I 
also fixed a (cross-platform) bug affecting monitoring stereo sources, 
and added an additional way to disable it by allowing you to disable 
the meter toolbar entirely in the Interface preferences.  I have tested 
VU meters on all of my systems in real usage scenarios and I'm pretty 
happy with them now.

I would like to release version 1.2.2 soon.  We've added several 
important new features and fixed some important bugs.  I even updated 
the online help files today to reflect these new features.  I propose 
posting release candidates in the next few days so that we can start 
getting updated translations.

As a reminder, here is the changelog:

   * VU Meters added for both playback and recording.  Click on
     the recording meter to monitor the input without recording.

   * Export Multiple - new feature that lets you export multiple
     files at once, either by track, or split based on labels.

   * MP3 tags dialog will only pop up the first time you export as
     MP3; after that it will not pop up again as long as you have
     filled in at least one tag.

   * You can now add a label at the current playback position - in
     the Project menu, with a shortcut of Ctrl+M.

   * Clicking on a label now selects all of the tracks, making it
     easier to use the label track to recall selections.

   * Fixed freeze in Unix/X-Windows caused by captured mouse when
     audio device hangs.  (Audacity may not respond, but it will
     no longer freeze all of X.)

   * Fixed cosmetic bug that caused improper waveform display if
     you tried to open an Audacity project saved on a different
     platform (e.g., copying a project from a Mac to a PC).

   * Fixed serious bug that could cause data loss when you save and
     then load an Audacity project containing repeated or duplicate
     data.

There are several minor unresolved bugs in Bugzilla that should be 
pretty easy to address; I will take a look at several of these in the 
next few days.  The most important bug that I have no idea about is:

   http://audacity.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150
   "Recording stops or display wraps after ~50 min."

I have not been able to reproduce this one on either Linux or Mac OS X. 
  If anyone can reproduce this and can help with debugging, that would 
be much appreciated.

- Dominic