Re: [Audacity-devel] FW: [Audacity-help] AUDACITY 1.3.2 VERSION::TIMER RECORD

[Gordon W. <gor...@ch...>]

Vaughan and Gale,

As a user, I'm more inclined to have the automatic export be
to a non-compressed format like a simple wav file.  If I
eventually want to save to mp3, then I can do that after
editing.

Since each user will have a different set of conditions,
they need a choice of what format to export to when a timed
recording finishes.  It should be a choice when the timed
recording is set up.  It shouldn't be difficult to save
those choices and call the export function when the recording
finishes.

The auto export feature is really a failsafe to prevent loss
of a recording if there is a power failure or spouse or child
takes over the machine and closes audacity.  Of course neither
of those would ever happen to you!

Gordon Weast


Vaughan Johnson wrote:
> Gale, thanks for the further thoughts. Good ideas. Noted.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vaughan
> 
> 
> ga...@au... wrote:
>> Just been thinking about the recording timer again, prompted by 
>> a few recent user requests to have Audacity export to a file automatically 
>> after recording. I seem to recall we've discussed a "quick Audacity" 
>> in the past which I understand to mean a drastically slimmed down 
>> interface (?) but I'm not sure if we considered automatic exporting of 
>> files as part of that.   
>>
>> Anyway my suggestion was that if we are going to consider the Timer 
>> automatically saves to a Project after recording ends, might this also 
>> be the place to consider adding automatic exporting to a file? I also
>> wondered if a neat way of doing this (since I guess most people 
>> who want auto-exporting want MP3 export) might be to give the user 
>> the option to apply one of their pre-existing chains after recording
>> finished?
>>
>> We'd I suppose have to get rid of the prompt in rthe chain before 
>> export takes place. This would of course leave Audacity still running 
>> with unsaved data, so perhaps we'd also have to have a user option to 
>> close Audacity without saving after exit, which would mean the default 
>> saving to a Project would have to be switched off. Possibly a selectable
>> command to exit Audacity without saving might be added to the MP3 
>> conversion chain anyway?  
>>
>> I noticed that you cannot do anything else useful with Audacity while 
>> waiting for the recording to begin or while the scheduled recording takes
>> place. However while a manually started recording is taking place, 
>> another Project in a different window can be worked on normally (if your computer is up to the job). Even though many people using the timer
>> aren't by definition going to be around, is that a necessary restriction?
>>
>>
>> Gale  
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  apply chains of
>> commands (e.g. normalise, noise reduction, export as MP3) to Projects 
>> or pre-existing files. It might be relatively easy as part of the scheduler 
>> to have it optionally apply a chain such as the above automatically, which 
>> would do what you're asking if we also had an option for the scheduler 
>> to allow the user to stop the recording manually once started. You'd still
>> be recording in uncompressed format and so would have to close Audacity 
>> and tell it not to save the data, if that was what you wanted, though 
>> exiting without saving could again be made an option of the scheduler or
>> the chain.
>>
>> In the light of that you may want to request instead that Audacity 
>> automatically exports to MP3 after recording (and optionally closes without 
>> saving the data as a Project). It's probably what you want rather than 
>> having it record directly to an MP3 file. 
>>
>>   
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