From: James T. <ja...@ta...> - 2009-11-03 00:26:55
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On Monday 02 November 2009 15:26:52 jeff welty wrote: jw> Sorry I've not been checking the inbox as often. jw> jw> I think you are working on a problem, which I think really is a user jw> interface issue. jw> jw> The problem with song markers, is that they assume songs end, and start jw> on a single sample boundary. jw> jw> Problem with that, if you think about a recording from a multi-track jw> source like vinyl LP, is that it allows for no lead-in, no separation jw> between tracks, and no tail-out of silence on the recording. jw> jw> I think the real solution is to make song markers identify not an exact jw> sample, but rather the start of a song, and the length of the song. In jw> the GUI, songs could be displayed with alternating highlights or jw> anything that indicates the start of a song and its length. jw> jw> What do you think? jw> Hi Jeff, all I think that while the idea you suggest has its merits, but for most purposes the silence between songs on an LP is about the right length and usually I have far too much lead in and tail out on the start and end of the disk that I have to cut off. Therefore I think that for maybe 80-90% of cases the present system does what is needed. Actually for the majority of what I do, I build my own TOC files by hand as when there are 1 or 2 numbers per side (and occasionally a single number is spread over 2 sides) and a dozen or so sides in the entire work it's easier to do it that way. James -- James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using ja...@ta... -- \/` Microsoft --- Something lingering http://www.tappin.me.uk/ with data loss in it I fancy" |