Re: [Audacity-quality] How to set Waveform (dB) the default view

[Paul L. <pau...@gm...>]

True, but this is not worse than recording into spectrogram view in 2.1.1.
PRL


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...>
wrote:

> Oh, and have you ever tried setting your Tacks Prefs to Spectrogram?
>
> It looks most disconcerting - I get six second blocks of white which only
> populate with the spectrogram every six seconds - presumably when the
> data blocks are being stored .
>
> Not a very useful or sensible choice for recording methinks ...
>
> Peter.
>
> Peter Sampson Tel: +44 (0)1625 524 780
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> *From:* Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...>
> *To:* audacity-quality <aud...@li...>; Paul
> Licameli <pau...@gm...>
> *Cc:* Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2015 3:15 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Audacity-quality] How to set Waveform (dB) the default
> view
>
> I'm not sure you can, hmmmm  ...
>
> Unlike Spectrogram view which has Preferences as well as per track settings
> Waveform only appears to have per track settings that apply to that one
> track
> only - and thus it doesn't appear to be a  setting that will propagate to
> other tracks
> or persist for those tracks in your next Audacity session.
>
> In 2.1.1 (and earlier) in Preferences>Tracks the dropdown for Default view
> mode
> offered several options including Waveform dB.
>
> In 2.1.2 this has been reduced to just 2: Waveform and Spectrogram.
>
> So the simple answer appears to be: you can't.
>
> This would seem to be serious regression as we know from a recent forum
> thread
> that many users like to set Waveform (dB) as their preferred default.
>
> Peter.
>
> Peter Sampson Tel: +44 (0)1625 524 780
>
>
>
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> *From:* Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
> *To:* "for identification, characterization, and prioritization of bugs."
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> *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2015 2:41 PM
> *Subject:* [Audacity-quality] How to set Waveform (dB) the default view
>
> How can the default track view be set to "Waveform (dB)" in Audacity 2.1.2?
>
> Steve
>
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