Re: [Audacity-devel] Split Stereo Track to Mono

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

Being a complete novice with cvs I had doubts as to whether the "patch" 
would work at all, so I am very pleased that you got it to work.

I have already made the suggestion to Tim (the original contributor) 
that he signs up on the audacity-devel list.

"I have a lack of 'undo' for it; would that be possible to fix?"
I think that the problem is probably in the patch file rather than the 
actual code. There are only a few lines of code that have been added to 
two files, but if the lines are in the wrong place then "undo" does not 
work. With the lines in the correct place, then undo works - at least it 
works on my computer.

I followed the instructions in the Audacity wiki for making the patch 
file using "cvs diff -u > patchfile" but perhaps I missed something.
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=SubmittingPatches

I'll have another go at making the patch file, but if that is no better 
then perhaps I could send the modified files to someone that knows what 
they are doing? (about 60kB)

Steve


Martyn Shaw wrote:
> Hi Steve
>
> Well done on submitting your first 'patch'.
>
> This 'patch' was possible to apply, but somewhat short of 'easy'.  I 
> think it's worth pursuing so perhaps you should redirect the original 
> contributor to audacity-devel?
>
> I have a lack of 'undo' for it; would that be possible to fix?
>
> TTFN
> Martyn
>
> Steve the Fiddle wrote:
>> There was recently a feature request on the Audacity forum for an 
>> option to split stereo tracks into two mono tracks rather than 
>> splitting to left and right tracks.  
>> http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8646
>>
>> This feature would be useful for any user that is recording two 
>> tracks simultaneously, for example a guitar panned left and a vocal 
>> panned right, and then wants to split the stereo track within 
>> Audacity to use as 2 mono tracks.
>>
>> Unusually, the person that posted the request had already modified 
>> the Audacity code so that "Split Stereo Track" produced mono tracks 
>> instead of left and right.
>>
>> I have no previous programming experience, but I have had a go and 
>> have made a few more modifications so that there is now an addition 
>> option in the track panel menu for splitting a stereo track into mono 
>> tracks. To my surprise, it compiles correctly on Linux and works as 
>> intended.
>>
>> I have made a patch file (attached), but please note this is the 
>> first patch that I have ever attempted so I've no idea if I'm doing 
>> things right or not.
>>
>> Steve
>>