Re: [Audacity-quality] Exporting audio files

[Arturo 'B. B. <bu...@bu...>]

Expert has always been Export. "Save Other" is not compatible with the fact
that Audacity only SAVES its project format, and exports everything else.


On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
wrote:

> On 8 November 2017 at 16:17, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > I'll go on record disliking "Save other," but that's only one voice.
>
> and just one voice from me too, hence the reason for raising the matter
> on-list.
>
> >
> > Maybe Forum should decide, but maybe you get a biased sample, those
> > disliking the change more likely to say so.
>
> Most definitely so, but more than just "not liking the change". We are
> getting feedback that users are confused by the fact that they can't
> find where / how to export.
>
>
> >
> > I do not require or prohibit this change.  If someone decides to change
> it,
> > I hope you reuse an already internationalized string _("Export") so .pot
> > doesn't need another update.
>
> Good point.
>
> Steve
>
> >
> > PRL
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:13 AM, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/8/2017 3:50 PM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 8 November 2017 at 15:40, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Doer decides?  You can change it - though perhaps formally get Paul's
> OK
> >>>> to
> >>>> do it since he is (or will be) 2.2.1 RM?  I care about the menus being
> >>>> much
> >>>> better organised than they were, not about every single detail.  And
> if
> >>>> you
> >>>> do change it, you'll be taking responsibility for all those
> >>>> inexperienced
> >>>> users who don't find how to 'Save' as wav!
> >>>
> >>> Sure, but we're a team, right?
> >>> We have some (admittedly limited) feedback, and I've cast my 2c.
> >>>
> >>> Yes I agree that the menu reorganisation is the more important (and
> >>> much improved) part, so just talking details here.
> >>>
> >>> What do others think? "Save Other" or "Export" or something else?
> >>> Assuming  that the rest of the File menu remains the same, I'm +1 for
> >>> "Export"
> >>
> >> If we're voting I'm -1 on it changing from "Save Other" - but if it were
> >> just us two voting and no one else, then I think it should change.  I
> think
> >> I am right in my choice, but I don't think you are terribly misguidedly
> >> wrong in yours, and the (small) inconvenience to inexperienced users
> matters
> >> less to me than you wanting to change it, because of feedback you have
> >> received, and not being able to.
> >>
> >> By contrast I do care a lot more about record-beside and record-below,
> >> which we also disagree on.  If it came to a vote I would put energy into
> >> getting consensus on my side about record-beside being the default.
> >>
> >> --James.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>>> By the way, I would also like to condense the two optional extra-menus
> >>>> into
> >>>> one.  However, if I do that it's for 2.2.2 rather than 2.2.1 given the
> >>>> timescales.
> >>>>
> >>>> --James.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 11/8/2017 3:04 PM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We're getting quite a few people asking how to export a normal audio
> >>>>> file.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It would seem that renaming "Export" as "Save Other" has created as
> >>>>> much confusion  as it resolved.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My personal view is that with the current File menu layout, the least
> >>>>> confusing would be to rename "Save Other" back to "Export". Imo, the
> >>>>> reduced size of the menu and improved menu order does enough to draw
> >>>>> attention to the Export menu item without removing the "E" word.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >>
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