Re: [Audacity-devel] RecordPauseOnSilence

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Cool. Thanks for the heads up.

- V

Martyn Shaw wrote:
> Vaughan
>
> I'm not ignoring this, just waiting until after the next release to put 
> some more thought into it.
>
> Martyn
>
> Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>   
>> SmartRecordPrefs.* is a bit confusing name, vs SmartRecordDialog.*. The 
>> intention, from lots of previous discussion, was that Timer Record, 
>> currently implemented in SmartRecordDialog.* would be expanded to do 
>> this type of recording and some other tricky features. I think it's 
>> sensible to make it a pref, but maybe better to just keep it as a 
>> special type of Record command, and (per Markus's and James's preference 
>> (!)) not proliferate the number of prefs. I could easily see myself 
>> setting it for a specific situation, then forgetting it's on when I want 
>> to record normally, making for an angry Vaughan.
>>
>> Martyn, do you think this should be merged into SmartRecordDialog (and 
>> the menu command changed from Timer Record to Smart Record), or do you 
>> think they should be separate and different in type (one a special 
>> record command, the other a pref mode)? If separate, then 
>> SmartRecordDialog.* should probably become TimerRecordDialog.*, and 
>> SmartRecord.* should be RecordNonSilence.* or (per the thread subject!) 
>> RecordPauseOnSilence.*.
>>
>> I think there are lots of ways to be "smart"! Dominic had suggested 
>> these in January 2006, intended for a single dialog, and there are 
>> probably others:
>>
>>         + Timed recording - start time, stop time
>>         * VOX / sound-threshold-activated recording
>>         * "Safe" recording - the recording would go straight to a WAV 
>>             file, flushed to disk regularly, so that data loss is never a
>>             worry.   After recording it would be imported into Audacity.
>>                [Opted not to do this for Timer Record, because auto-save 
>> was implemented in the meantime.]
>>         * Optional: record directly to MP3
>>
>> One extension of RecordPauseOnSilence would be to be able to set the 
>> threshold.
>>
>> So, the choices are:
>>
>> 1) whether they stay as different types, one a command the other a pref
>>
>> 2) if both are special types of Record commands, whether we conflate 
>> them into one dialog or not
>>
>> Tradeoffs are discoverability versus menu crowding vs usability. What 
>> does everybody think?
>>
>> - Vaughan
>>
>>
>> James Crook wrote:
>>     
>>> Martyn,
>>>
>>> Looks fine so far, but there are a couple of files missing from CVS:
>>> SmartRecord.cpp and SmartRecord.h.  Adding a file is a two step process 
>>> with Tortoise CVS.  First you right click on the files and do 'add' and 
>>> then you do the normal update.  You likely missed out the first step.
>>>
>>> I commented out the '#include' to get it to compile again.  You'll need 
>>> to reinstate that.  I can't wait for us to have 1.4 out so that we can 
>>> then release a new experimental build!
>>>   
>>>
>>>       
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