Re: [Audacity-devel] Append record - Poor error message.

[Federico M. <fm...@fc...>]

Dear all,

> > I think the correct behaviour would be to just append record a stereo
> > track to the first stereo track.  If instead we treat append as
> > attempting to append to all tracks, even when there are too many to do
> > that, then the error message should be more informative.  e.g. if
> > captureChannels or playbackChannels is greater than 2 then that
> > information should be given in the error message.
> >
> > What do other people think?
>
>+1 for a more informative error message.

I think the best would be to append audio to the longest track; if 
more than one, to the first of selected ones; if none selected, to 
the first stereo track, leaving silence in between if it happens not 
to be the longest one. And if, because of the harware, recording 
cannot be performed in all chnnels, this should be just informed.

I think this a better behavior than just losing a good recording 
because hardware doesen't match tne number of tracks. Perhaps option 
should be given to label new recording so it is easier to move around 
if it isn't where intended.

Federico Miyara