From: Gale A. <ga...@au...> - 2007-07-22 08:01:50
|
| From xip...@xi... | Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:15:07 -0400 | Subject: [Audacity-devel] FTP | There is also great demand for live streaming and VoIP | capture/processing. Will we be building in icecast and asterisk? Hi Monty Interesting. Have you picked up a demand amongst Audacity users for this? Help list is certainly asked quite often if Audacity can record VoIP, but the essential difference for me is that with VoiP we have not got users who have expectations that Audacity should necessarily record VoiP. But as regards users who found Audacity with e.g. Podcast Factory and USB turntables and I/O devices, we definitely have users who expect Audacity to do their whole task for them, as they would be able to do with competing products. I did forget one for my list of desiderata (import MIDI as uncompressed sampled audio) as discussed recently, without quite so much controversy.... Thanks to Daniel for pointing out a possible philosophical objection (one tool for the job) which I do appreciate. It depends where everyone thinks the boundaries of the job are. For me it encompasses anything to do with audio and ends at video. For the users concerned, LP to CD; and recording, editing and publishing podcasts, *are* one job. Are you essentially thinking, Daniel, of Audacity using a CD burning program of the user's choice with a simple menu item and a Preference setting, as you might invoke a chosen external editor in a program? Personally I'd quite like that but that still I think leaves the problem of inexperienced users using any number of different burning softwares and then coming back to us for help with those. A plugin would avoid that and those that did not want just don't load it. | 'Ogg' [has] a native iTunes plugin and complete QuickTIme components, | encode and decode. Is that poor support? | There are complete DirectShow filters that add it as a native Windows | codec pack to all modern Windows audio apps (encode and decode, audio | and video). Is that poor support? I did know that Monty, but it's not out of the box support. | ...not counting the native Flash and Java players that even allow | embedding Ogg player in webpages without the user needing to download | or install anything. Does the dominant Adobe Flash Player support OGG? I'm just asking, I have never been able to find out. Still if you send someone an OGG file via email, yousendit or similar, the user will still likely need a plugin or filter. | ...or we could concentrate on fixing bugs in our core functionality | before throwing in the kitchen sink. The more that gets added, the | less reliable everything will be. It was a great, fast, simple little | program a few years back. It's becoming a big, slow, complicated | looking, unreliable program. We are not so far apart there Monty, as I think you will have seen me say. But my view is we've already come so far down the road from a few years ago that I doubt there is any going back. Audacity is now so complex anyway that for the usefulness it creates, it seems silly to me to avoid CD burning, ripping, FTP and MIDI import any longer, once 1.4.0 is out which is #1 priority. So instead we have to go forward and try and balance the user demand for new features (in line with what are going to be useful to many people), with keeping reasonable stability. Bottom line for me though, is that if we now still had Audacity 1.0.0, I don't think we would have 10 million downloads a year. Gale Outbound message virus free. Tested on: 7/22/2007 9:01:48 AM |