Re: [Audacity-quality] Needs testing for 2.1.0 - update

[Bill W. <bi...@go...>]

Update December 23 2014
On 2014/12/18, at 11:50 AM, Bill Wharrie <bi...@go...> wrote:

> Update December 18 2014
> 
> On 02/12/2014, at 10:01 PM, Bill Wharrie <bi...@go...> wrote:
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>> 
>> On 01/12/2014, at 7:44 PM, Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> wrote:
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>>> [snip]
>>> So, I'd like to ask QA and the developers who've contributed so much to 
>>> post lists of what needs testing, generally and specifically. I will 
>>> consolidate those and post a new Release Agenda spreadsheet.
>> 
>> Here’s my take on this.
>> 
>> 1) Noise Reduction
>> a) Will we replace Noise Removal with Noise Reduction?
> — it appears we will
>> b) If so, which controls will be exposed to the user?
> — still debating this
— still debating which controls to expose and their default values

> 
>> 
>> 2) Spectral Selection
>> - this seems to have been well tested
> — this appears to be in
>> - will Paul’s latest patch for keyboard adjustment of the spectral selection make it into 2.1?
>> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Patch-spectral-peak-snapping-navigation-commands-td7565648.html
> — it appears not; too bad
— this went in with r13799
— we’re not sure if this is ready for 2.1
> - also, reversion of the “yellowish” highlighting appears to be off the table
> 


>> 
>> 3) Effects real time preview
>> - this is still being refined
>> — too many small issues for me to remember them all!
>> - personally I hope it will be ready for 2.1: there seems to be the will to beat it into shape.
> — we appear to be committed to this
> — this has become a big project, including load/save of presets and hiving off the options from preferences into a separate dialog for each type of effect
> - possibly the last issue is the question of what the “bypass” button will be called and what the icons and tooltips will be
— “bypass” has become a checkbox labeled “Enabled”, appearing in both text and graphical modes
— no recent reports of bugs AFAIK


> 
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>> 4) Meter changes
>> - this seems to be in, but discussion continues on the appearance of the space-saver meters
>> - still some glitches when resizing undocked meters
>> - still some discussion of whether to keep the traditional meters
>> - Bug 783 http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783 which seems to be related to the recent meter changes
> — Bug 783 is fixed
> - fixes for other bugs related to toolbar organization, meter resizing/orientation and record-meter monitoring are currently in progress
— this continues to be refined
— several display issues still to be ironed out


> 
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>> 5) Changes to play/record icons for loop play and append record
>> - both the Play and Play-at-speed “green triangle” buttons show “pressed” when playing, either normal or at-speed
> — this has not been addressed
— FIXED with r13800


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>> 6) Nyquist 
>> - support for version 4 plug-ins
> — this may just be a documentation issue. Steve?
— one little documentation P1


> 
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>> 7) Improved seeking/scrubbing 
>> - is this effective on all platforms?
> — this appears to be resolved
— definitely NOT resolved on Linux
— may not be ready for 2.1


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>> 8) Modules
>> - I have no idea what’s going on with this
> — other than the documentation issue (redoing all the Preferences pages in the manual), I think this is resolved.
— no new information

> 
> 
>> 9) WDM-KS still fails consistently on Peter's W7-HP with its Realtek card
> — has anyone looked at WDM-KS?
> — has a decision been made and the level of support for WDM-KS in 2.1?
— no new information

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>> 10) Steve's new Crossfade Tracks effect.
> — this is in, so resolved
>