[Audacity-devel] Feature suggestions: datetime stamp for Scheduled (timed) recording and others

[Jan K. <ko...@ma...>]

For now discussed  Scheduled (timed) Recording I suggest
optional (by default selected?) label creating at start  and then every 
0,10,20,30,40,50 minute,
with label text containing the local zone time (and date in the first 
label).

Why: It helps user in case something fails
1. "Did I set the time correctly?"
2. in case of power failure.

Label track should be explicitly synced to disc (together with .aup).



Another suggestion:
For live recordings, it would be useful if date of recording would be 
automatically  noted somewhere perhaps in metadata.
(Pseudo-code: If comments = ""  then comments := date+time. On 
recording, or on new-project).
File creation/modification is not suitable because the information there 
is lost by editing (might depend on OS?) and copying/moving.

(Generally, every track could carry time of creation and/or datetime of 
first recording (or list of recording datetimes).
 In .aup or in the track name?)


And there was question about disappearing arrows. There is a related  
issue concerning internationalization. Interested?



BTW:
> Weird thing was that on first execution after new install, Record 
> recorded in mono, but when I opened the prefs it was already set to 
> stereo, and clicking okay made it actually record in stereo... I thought 
> it was all in the cfg file now? I didn't clean the Registry of Audacity 
> entries.
Perhaps I know something related? Just ask me.  Though perhaps not 
really related, since
> I believe that the default for a clean install is still mono:
> AudioIO.cpp li 1451:    long recordChannels = 1;
>   



Jan