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It's because we had to introduce "moderation" for new users a while back, sorry. It's necessary to avoid the flood of spam that we would otherwise get - most of it annoying, mich of it umpleasant and some of it downright dangerous. I approved your other post too - so you now have two posts...

The only obvious rename I see is File > Edit Metadata Tags... and that's an extra word so there may be objections... It's usually me that complains about long menu names, but "Edit Metadata Tags..." is still not particularly long, and I think the extra clarity would be worth it, so no com...

Personally I find labels to be invaluable for this type of thing ... I'm a BIG fan of labels for this type of work too - I find them preferrable and much more usabel than the square brackets. One thinhg that is very useful is that the label's position can be readily adjusted if needed. I also find ...

The only obvious rename I see is File > Edit Metadata Tags... and that's an extra word so there may be objections... and that's still much shorter than "Save Compressed Copy of Project..." which is in the same menu - and makes it clearer. The term metadata is really a technical term rathe...

Finally, they have to find File > Edit Metadata... . which is two lines above "Export audio". Hard to miss if you know that it is called "metadata", but many users probably think of it as "tags". Perhaps that is the underlying problem? A rename might help marginally .....

Should I replace the UCA 202 with a UFO 202? Personally I'd replace it with the ARTcessories USB Phono Plus as that has a gain control - see http://artproaudio.com/turntable_preamps/product/usb_phono_plus-ps/ I used a n ARTcessories Preamp (DJ-Pre11) feed ing to an Edirol UA-1EX USB soundcard with ...

just click and drag to selct the section with the needle drop and then either [email protected] a) Ctrl + K to delete the selection, b) Ctrl + L to make the selection absolute silence. You may also want to select the run-in and a very, very short part of the real signal and use Effect > Fade In And at the end of...

Gale Andrews wrote:I think you should reboot any computer from time to time, even laptops.

+1

Same goes for routers too (even though they have no bearing on this particular issue).

WC

steve wrote:

waxcylinder wrote:Assuming that it works, then yes, these settings in Preferences would become superfluous and would be removed,

+1

I'm +1 for this concept too

Does this mean you could/would remove these settings from Preferences Steve?

Peter