Re: [Audacity-devel] Metadata before filenames?

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

| From Leland <le...@au...> 
| Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:10:35 -0600
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] Metadata before filenames?
> Martyn Shaw wrote:
> > There was a bug listed on the Release Checklist (copied below).  I 
> > think the problem was that if the same file name is requested, the old 
> > file gets renamed.  If the Metadata is then asked for and the user 
> > cancels, the export is canceled but the file has the wrong name.
> > 
> > Make sense?  Feel free to change it again, remembering this issue.
> > 
> Gale likes it as-is, so I'm inclined to leave it.  But, showing the 
> Metadata before doesn't give us a chance to NOT show it based on the 
> type of file to which the user is exporting.

I do think it's more logical to ask for metadata before the file name,
but equally I don't like the metadata editor appearing when you use
external program, where it serves no purpose. It's not dangerous 
however, so if there is no other way to kill it when command-line 
exporting (or no way to defer the overwrite renaming until metadata
is confirmed), then I guess we will have to live with it as now?  

> But, I'm kind of biased since I don't use tags and feel the thing just 
> gets in my face too often anyway.  :-)

There is of course a preference to stop Metadata Editor appearing 
before the export step, but it is a global preference, and I suspect
some users really "would" find it useful to be able to disable it 
for uncompressed files. Of course if you ever bring in your RF64 
support we might have to reconsider...     



Gale