Audacity Forum

A very good, and free, screen capture program, though again forWindows only, is MWSnap
from http://www.mirekw.com


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From the Olympus website: "Recordings are saved in the high-quality DSSPro format and users have the choice of various recording modes including the new extra-high-quality QP mode. ... Files can be downloaded quickly and easily to a PC or Mac via Hi-Speed USB and integrated in the office workflow th...

As regards writing to the root directory, I don't know what's the reason for the restriction. Is it only an issue on Windows, or is there a similar issue with Mac or Linux? I do notice a footnote in the Nyquist 2.37 manual which says that the setdir function is not a standard XLISP 2.0 function. I'l...

Writing to a root directory e.g. E: is rejected on my Win7 system; it requires a folder inside E: Similarly, my XP system rejects writing to C:. I assumed it was because I wasn't logged in with an administrator account and access was restricted, but maybe there is another reason. In any case, I thi...

Yes, I like that.
(It never occurred to me that there could be more than one line in the text).

POL

Upgrade to 1.3.12, which you can download from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ It has tools at the bottom of the project window which allow you to select a section of audio by entering the beginning and end times in minutes and seconds, (down to thousandths of a second). When the selection i...

Good point about the functions. I'll tidy that up. How about leaving that text input widget empty by default as an optional control. "Leave blank to output to home directory" Yes, but how do you fit that, plus the widget title, into 27 or so characters without being too cryptic? (I've said 27 becaus...

Are you clicking on the .aup file in Windows Explorer to open it? If you do that, and you have 1.2 on your machine, (even if you also have 1.3), it will try to open it in 1.2 because the .aup file extension is associated with 1.2 in the Windows registry. The registry entries can be deleted, BUT DON'...

stevethefiddle wrote:Once a plug-in has been run with debug it seems that it will run as debug each time until Audacity is restarted.

Strange how I never noticed that until now!
I'd call it a bug. I don't want to have to click to get rid of the Debug window unless I looked for Debug output when running the plug-in.

POL

The manual refers to it as the Track Panel and is, I think, consistent in that. However, the name doesn't give any indication of what the panel does.
What about "Track Control Panel"?

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