Re: [Audacity-devel] Localization problems

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    | From Markus Meyer <me...@me...> 
    | Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:11:19 +0200
    | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Localization problems
    | ga...@au... schrieb:
    | > ...except Audacity! (Sorry I could not resist). I'm still 100% convinced "any
    | > supported file" is exactly what we do need for import/open, not "all files".
    | >   
    | The problem with using "any supported file" instead of "all files" is
    | that especially audio files downloaded from the net or from recording
    | devices do not always have the correct extension or any extension at
    | all. Audacity currently does a very good job at opening those files
    | anyway, so we would remove an already working and helpful feature.

Hi Markus 

Of course I recognise that objection which I mentioned myself the first time
I raised it. I believe the benefits of that are far outweighed by the disbenefit
of having people see M4P and WMA files and try and open them. But let's 
accept the usefulness of "all files" for now. That still leaves these questions:

1 Why are .aup files in the list when they cannot be opened this way?
2 Why can't we have "all supported files" (the specific types mentioned 
   in the list minus .aup files), as well as "all files"? 
3 What are the benefits of defaulting to all files, as opposed to offering 
   the last successful type (which we do elsewhere)? 

If the user has lots of different non-audio file types in the folder, this current 
arrangement is unmitigatedly awful (I'm being polite), unless the user actually can
recall the type of file it is, and even if they can, they still have to go to that
file type as a second un-necessary action. 

If there are problems with opening to last successful type (maybe if they 
click a file without an extension or similar?) then let's just default to "all
supported files" but leave "all files" as an option. This is exactly what e.g. 
Goldwave does and surely this has to be what Audacity should be doing? 
What objections or problems would you see with that? 


Gale 




  


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