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We've just changed the way it will work in 2.4.0 - I just updated the 2.4.0 alpha Manual today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The mechanism for toggling the Play and Record head from its default unpinned position to a pinned posi...

As a minimum I'm hoping we can at least improve the tooltips - but we may be able to do more. And you may be pleased to know that we've do a lot more than just fix the tooltips - a lot of discussion on the Quality email list ended up wiy=th our Release Manager and lead developer James made the chan...

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:50 am

Please PM (Forum PM) your full email address so we can discuss this later offline.

Actually Kate has already given me your email - I will try to write to you later today.

Peter.

Josh, thanks for the offer. I have been discussing this with our Release Manager. There may (or may not) be something we can do for you. Please PM (Forum PM) your full email address so we can discuss this later offline. As policy we do not let signed alpha builds out into the wild (as they tend to p...

I'll see what I can do, if anything, to get those tooltips improved a little. I made an entry in our Wiki>Bear-traps page: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/ToDo:_Unstick_'Stuck_In_a_Mode'#pin And I have opened a discussion on the Audacity Quality list about this. As a minimum I'm hoping we can at...

I'm stupid. Thank you. I don't think so ... It's not exactly easily "discoverable" (and "discoverability" is normally one of our watchwords in the design of Audacity) to ascertain that clicking on that icon at the left of the Timeline toggles the play type from pinned to unpinne...

I can't reproduce this - for me when I change the required output format then the output file extension does change accordingly.

WC

Yep, been there. Tried that. WASAPI only works if you select the speakers as the recording device, (& 2 channels). You have the microphone selected. No so Trebor - I can set host to WASAPI and record from my PC's onboard Mic - but mostly I have it set to record loopback for internet webcasts. P...

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:42 pm

Linux keeps running until you tell it to stop.

Mac has similar control settings for update control - but not as sophisticated as the Windows controls

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:42 pm

Linux keeps running until you tell it to stop.

Peter.

And Mac does similar - so it's not a "Microsoft thing" Windows tends to be quite assertive about "Shutting down now, ready or not!" Windows offer comprehensive controls to manage this 1) On the basic updates screen you can set you core working hours - and it will not interrupt f...