Re: [Audacity-devel] <rant>hyper-verbosity<\rant>

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

    | From Markus Meyer <me...@me...> 
    | Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:31:44 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-devel] <rant>hyper-verbosity<\rant>
    | Gale Andrews schrieb:
    | > in my book it could "possibly" do with a dialogue the
    | > first time you import uncompressed audio that goes:
    | >
    | > "Importing your audio and copying in the source data to be safe....
    | > You can speed up imports by going to the Audio Files tab of 
    | > Preferences and setting the option to "read directly from the 
    | > original file." "
    | >
    | > or give them an option to do so at the time.   
    | >   
    | I had already implemented and commited this but shortly after that 
    | Dominic implemented the "Copy Audio into Project" dialog and I reverted 
    | my changes.

OK well if we make the default to be "copy in" after 1.4 we can put your 
dialogue back. I think more usual default behaviour with media editors is 
to read direct, especially with video editors, and I'm not sure why so many 
users move / delete their source files. My very slight balance of feeling is  
that it might be best to leave the default as "read directly", but I'm easy
either way. If we don't change, then we should try and make the 
dependencies dialogue clearer, and make it harder to accidentally not copy
in.  However we have had the dependencies dialogue for some time now in 
1.3, and I don't actually recall anyone using 1.3.3 still managing to lose their
audio.
     

Gale  



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