Re: [Audacity-devel] Additional edit menu item

[Tino M. <a.t...@ch...>]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:16, Andrew Balaam wrote:
> Yo!
Yo man!
> 
> In order to support one of my methods of de-clicking digitised vinyl, I 
> have added to my copy of your CVS code another paste function that I call 
> PasteOver, together with a new edit menu item. I wanted a way of taking a 
> small section near the click, and then pasting it on top of the click. 
> This can be done with Paste as it stands now, and the small function I 
> added calls the current Paste function, but it is easy to make a mistake 
> in selecting exactly the right amount as a paste area.
> 
> Any chance of having this incorporated into the project?

It seems many people use Audacity to record their vinyl records and
audio tapes to the hard-disk.
One part of that proces is declicking, another is filtering the audio
signal and, splitting the recording into seperate tracks.

Instead of providing yet another way to paste, perhaps it would be
better for Audacity, to make this process even easier for the user, by
providing these functions.
I believe with the current Audacity, the splitting of the tracks and the
applying of filters is already rather easy, (but could perhaps be tuned
somewhat for this special purpose?)

However, finding the clicks and pops, and subsequently removing them in
one way or another is still a manual job.
I know of at least one program that has automated the process of
recording vinyl records: Gramofile:
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/

Perhaps some of this work could be incorporated in a future version of
Audacity? Maybe after the next stable release? (I think Audacity needs
another stable release soon; the difference between version 1.0.0 and
1.1 is already huge)

-- Tino