Re: [Audacity-quality] Testing of windows RC - Please describe your usual workflow!
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From: Peter S. <pet...@ya...> - 2012-02-16 15:32:42
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James, I'm just in the middle of testing RC1 with one of my typical workflows: Windows XP-HE-SP3 500MB RAM Dell Dimension 2400 Audacity set to 441.kHz 32-bit flloat 0) open webstream for internet radio capture (one hour show with 5 minute pre & post buffers) 1) rest udacity to record from my onboard SoundMax rather than my external USB soundcard and turn off Software Playthrough 2) Save the empty project to its assigned name/location 3) zoom level set to show 30 minutes on screen 4) mark approximate start points and end points of material I want to "keep" with point labels 5) after capture, save the project 6) trim the pre and post 5 minute buffers - save the project 7) remove DC offset with Normalize (no amplification) - save the project 8) zoom project to fit screen. select to nearly between each "end" marker and the next start marker. 9) delete the unwanted stuff between markers with Ctrl+K 8&9 repeated until all required material only remains 10) Noise removal (internet feed "noise") if I can find a suitable sample 11)switch to normal zoom level 12) tab to "song" start 13) trim cruft from front of song with Silence and Fade-In 14) move label to proper start position 15) Tab to "end" label marker for the song 16) trim cruft from end of song with silence and Fde-out 17) renove the "end" label 12-17 repeated until all songs trimmed 18) Amplify to -3.0dB 19) Export Multiple as 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM stereo WAVs 20) Delete Project and backup WAV files I'm half way through at the moment - ok so far, will report back further Peter Sampson Tel: +44 (0)1625 524 780 Mob: +44 (0)7732 278 299 ________________________________ From: James Crook <cr...@in...> To: aud...@li...; audacity-quality <aud...@li...> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:00 PM Subject: [Audacity-quality] Testing of windows RC - Please describe your usual workflow! (This thread will continue on audacity-quality only. I'm posting it to devel too for the few people who don't also follow quality).I've a question around organising testing of the windows rc.I will be giving it a whirl on Windows XP with mono vocal recording, and the workflow I use most, which involves recordings of about 45 mins, noise removal, lots of cutting (mostly small chunks), lots of zooming in and out, some shunting around of audio to align different takes, use of (span rather than point) labels, mix down, fade-ins and fade-outs, saving project, and export to mp3. I'll also try some of the things which are recently changed and some of the things which I think likely to cause trouble.My question is, how can we be more systematic? We don't want everyone testing the exact same things as each other, but we DO want to know early if any of the changes since 1.3.14 have led to serious problems. - I invite people to share the description of the workflow they use most, so for example we'll likely see that 10 hour recordings are NOT being tested by default. This workflow information is good information to have anyway.- I'm sharing this table of recent changes in bugzilla bug status. These are places where changes in code may have happened - and may suggest tests to do. For example 465, which is about effects preview, suggests attempting to preview more than the audio selected for the effect, and attempting to preview before cut, where the cut is right near the start of the track. Issue 311 suggests some testing with OGG files would be good to do early. 334 Crash closing project window between save project dialogues Wed 14:04 44 Modal block circumventable using taskbar and shortcuts, leading to crash risk Wed 13:54 471 FLAC files import as empty track Wed 13:08 161 Preferences: Vertical scrollbar in treeview doesn't display when required √ Wed 01:21 187 PageUp/PageDown no longer scroll horizontally Wed 01:09 152 Nyquist function producing -1 samples corrupts all non-float audio until restart √ Mon 23:29 410 snd-avg with a very large blocksize and stepsize causes Audacity to crash Mon 23:13 149 Frequency Analysis window painting problems Sun 14:19 465 Increase default effects preview and preview before cut 2012-02-02 467 Audacity fails to build with latest FFmpeg/libav 2012-01-21 451 Projects can create overlong blockfiles which cause data loss on re-opening 2012-01-17 311 Slow import of ogg if libsndfile OD-handles it, then slow export to all formats 2012-01-16 315 add version info to Log creates "Information" box on Mac that breaks launching with files 2012-01-16 454 Contrast tool may analyse wrong track 2012-01-14 404 Some professional sound cards/devices are not (fully) compatible 2012-01-12 449 Click Track tempo is (slightly) inaccurate 2011-12-24 462 Some VST plug-ins crash 1.3.13 and later on launch, but not 1.3.12 2011-12-19 456 Tones generated at .25 or .75 fractional frequencies out-of-phase 2011-12-16 457 Overlong block files are orphaned rather than read or exported to WAV 2011-12-07 397 Widgets 2.8.10: all available CPU used if Audacity left open without focus 2011-12-06 178 Audacity will not compile with MS VC++ 2010 Express 2011-12-06 400 Projects created by Audacity 1.1.x or earlier are no longer supported Other ideas and sharing of how to make the testing more thorough are welcome. Can we/should we invite other people to help with testing the rc? If you do nothing else, please share a description of your usual workflow, if you are going to try that out with this rc.--James.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity PlanningCloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/_______________________________________________Audacity-quality mailing lis...@li...https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality |