Re: [Rosegarden-user] Audio problems

[david <gn...@ha...>]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Friday, July 09, 2010, Chris Cannam wrote:
> 
>> and if you have saved the current RG file at least
>> once (so that it has a name to use)
> 
> Under certain conditions (including hitting record with an audio track armed, 
> possibly others) if you haven't yet saved your composition with a proper name, 
> you get interrupted with a save as dialog before recording will commence.  
> This ensures (well, strictly speaking, more like encourages) the audio files 
> can have a meaningful name, and won't all be "[Untitled]" globbed together in 
> one place.

All goodnesses!

> As to any changes concerning how the audio path itself is handled, I honestly 
> just don't remember what we did, or what we were thinking at the time.
> 
> My best guess at a foggy recollection is that somebody complained drag and 
> drop failed if ~/rosegarden didn't exist, so we made sure it existed, and 
> everything kind of followed from there.

Sounds like a point to work on sometime. I still think I'd want it to 
prompt me for a directory the first time I went to record something in a 
particular RG project, unless I'd already saved the project; then it 
could create an audio directory whether I needed it or not.

> If we got anything wrong, I'd like users to keep in mind that this thing 
> didn't even run for the first year we worked on it, and for the next year we 
> had to rewrite a lot of horribly mangled things from scratch without 
> necessarily being in a position to go look at the old Rosegarden for 
> comparison.

I don't think anyone's saying anyone got anything wrong. And all of you 
did an amazing, fine job of the rewrite, too!

-- 
David
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