Audacity Developers,
I am new to this forum but not all new to Audacity itself. I’ve been using Audacity ever since its first release years ago, and up to now I’ve had absolutely no complaints…it has been perfect for what I use it for (which is everything pertaining to recorded sound editing and creation). I’ve been really, really satisfied, at least, until now. While all the new features are amazing and truly useful, as well as all the past functionality as well, the only complaint I have now is this:
The new interface. In fact, I really like the new interface, although frankly the previous one was fine with me. The new one though has its advantages, except for one thing: The removal of the Cut, Copy, & Paste Buttons!!
I consider it completely unacceptable that the cut, copy, & paste icon-buttons were removed and not given the option to show or not-show them on the toolbar as needed. It slows down operation to have to stop every time one wishes to cut, copy, or paste audio or labels, to use either the keyboard or clicking on the menu options when just clicking the buttons on the front panel with the mouse was so much quicker, effective, and overall convenient.
Please either reinstate the small, non-obtrusive buttons (which took up little space anyway), or at least provide an option to show them or not show them (for those that don’t use those functions that often). I happen to use them a lot, probably as often as I use the Recording and Play buttons.
The other thing missing from the front, which was useful, was the volume control during playback instead of having to select view from the menu, then select View to show the Mixer just to adjust the volume when simply sliding the indicator on the front did the same thing.
It seems to me that replacing the ease of using cut, copy, & paste buttons to rearrange sound clips or segments with the more complicated and time-consuming process of menu-hopping or having to let go of the mouse to use the keyboard to do what used to be simple, was NOT very well thought out, and maybe even just a bit insane.
I am sorry my first post on this awesome forum for such an awesome application had to be a complaint, and as stated previously, my only one so far since its creation. I hope you will consider that I am not the only one out there with this complaint.
Sincerely,
Socrates Rook