Re: [Audacity-devel] What to do next

[Leland <le...@au...>]

On 8/4/07 2:52 PM, "Gale Andrews" <ga...@au...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Now if View > Show Clipping shows me the markings in the audio track, I'd
> have thought it might more usefully show the clipping track as well if the
> clipping labels are thought useful as a way of navigating quickly to the
> clipped
> area, rather than have to do Analyze > Clipping in addition. If you are
> interested in seeing clipping I am struggling to see why you would not have
> "show clipping" turned on, and then the purpose of Analyze > Find Clipping
> to look at a selected area somewhat eludes me as you can see the clipping
> areas anyway. I think this division between two commands is confusing IMHO.
> Also it seems that View > Show Clipping pays no attention to the threshold
> set at Analyse > Find Clipping (presumably its theshold is 1?). I'd have
> thought 
> View > Show clipping should pay attention to the threshold , and that this
> threshold should be discoverable to those who only use View > Show
> Clipping  and don't even realise Analyze > Find Clipping is there.
> 
There was 2 main reasons I did "Find Clipping" with the main one being that
the "Show Clipping" can't be used by visually impaired users.  Actually,
this is the only reason I wrote it.

The other reason is that I took the least "dangerous" path for "Show
Clipping" and it's quite slow when there's a lot of clipping.  That's why I
defaulted it to off.  This can be fixed, but it will have to be post 1.4.0.

Oh, the reason the default is 3 is because that's what the meter uses to
detect clipping.

Leland