Re: [Audacity-devel] Amplify is very noisy

[Leland <le...@au...>]

--On June 2, 2008 1:18:06 PM -0400 Michael Chinen <mc...@gm...> wrote:

> Interesting bug.  My thoughts on the -infinity display.
>
>> Also, for the sake of novices, wouldn't a "No limit" checkbox be better
>> than "-Infinity" or would that mean 2 different things?
> "No limit" would throw me off - audio people expect to see what their
> mixers have, so it would be good to keep the "- infinity" in my
> opinion.  Maybe something like "silent" in parenthesis would be good.
>
Ahhh, you've happened upon my dirty little secret...I know SQUAT about 
audio mixing/processing!  Funny isn't it, me mucking about in an audio app 
and all.  :-)

I honestly don't have a clue as to what "-Infinity" means in this case 
then.  I took it to mean that there was no maximum peak limit...ya 
know...To Infinity and Beyond!  :-)

But, I would suggest a "-Infinity" checkbox that, when checked, the peak 
editbox is disabled.  Who's going to remember to type in "-Inifinity" 
(actually, you can type ANY non-numeric value to get the same result).