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todo.txt
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See the release checklist on the wiki:
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http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_Checklist
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Residual things still in the file from 2003 but not yet done:
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* Allow the user to create keyboard shortcuts for Effects
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* Support custom cursors on Mac.
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* A master gain control, if at all possible
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- Exporting should take into account mute and solo?
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* Zooming using mousewheel - obviously this shouldn't
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be the only way to do it, since not everyone has a
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mousewheel. When should it be used, then?
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* Automatic Vertical resizing of tracks.
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I think that tracks should expand proportionally (vertically) on
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a resize.
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I think that when you open a project, auto-vertical-track-resizing
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should be on by default. It only goes off if you specifically
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drag the _bottommost_ track and make it bigger or smaller. (Then,
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how should you turn it back on again?)
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* Add an Audio menu with items like Play, Stop, Record, Pause,
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Loop, etc.?
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* When a selection is readjusted by grab&drag, the release of the
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button at outside of the track panel could mean "undo".
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Similar for all other operations.
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* dragging the selection edge out of display starts moving the
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wave, but moving could start 100 or so pixels before the display
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edge so that the coming wave can be seen
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* "Smart Record"
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Includes higher-quality recording (because of extremely limited
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GUI operations), timed recording, large VU meters, and more.
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All of the recording options that are too complicated to do
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with the normal record button (in the future: volume-triggered
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recording, record directly to MP3/Ogg, etc.)
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* A bars/beats time ruler and snap-to bars/beats.
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(Karl, if you want to submit a patch, it's fine with me,
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as long as it's complete and clean.)
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* In the Timeshift-tool mode I propose making [ctrl+mb1] do
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"Align track to cursor". Since they're only one clip per track,
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simply clicking anywhere in to the track should perform that function.
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Only the Selector tool can set the cursor, right?
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[ Checking the mouse button operations through should be done.
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Multitool should be considered as a base for the default mode.
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Some operations would work always, like making a selection.
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Then various tools would change function of some of the mouse
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buttons. Without the multitool the Audacity is very annoying to
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use, IMHO. JS]
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* When drag selecting the tracks out of track window, the window should
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scroll and reveal more tracks.
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* Maybe post 1.2 we also need multiple projects in the same window
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feature: either by (i) subwindows inside the main window, a common
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toolbars, (ii) no subwindows but the project is technically behind
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a pointer which can be changed from a "projects" menu, (iii) different
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projects are in tabbed windows, as commonly used in 3D graphics
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software. Tabbed windows could also contain preferences/controls for
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Audacity and for all plug-ins. That requires a way to build the tab
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pages on-the-fly. Certainly post-1.2 stuff.
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* More built in code for automated testing, not sure exactly what,
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ideas for how to do this would be welcome.
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[ It is more like continuous research job. Leave to post-1.2 version. ]
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* Related to this, a self-image-capture class. This puts the gui through
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its paces, capturing .pngs of toolbars, sliders, dialogs according to
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an external script file. This makes updating the images in the
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documentation much easier.
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[ Third party screen capture program which accepts remote commands
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via a named pipe, say. Audacity would then have a way to send one
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command only and a way to send commands repeatedly (n times per
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minute). ]
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* Half a dozen nyquist scripts, annotated and explained in the
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Audacity documentation. Nyquist looks an incredibly powerful
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feature, but I (JKC) haven't a clue how to do some of the simplest
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things with it.
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* Track label could be changed to look like what is in commercial
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multitrack software. More compact, that is. JS.
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[I don't think we should necessarily copy the commercial software
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in this regard. I hate most of their UIs because they force me
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to memorize what tiny little symbols and colors mean. I like
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my UIs to be "discoverable". DM]
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[Agree with DM about not simply copying and discoverability.
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Agree with JS that more compact ways to do Track Label need
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investigation. Screen real estate is valuable. JKC]
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Unclear - what are these?
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* In zoom mode, scrollwheel click acts as middle button click, but when
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dragging with it, it behaves strangely (I couldn't figure out the logic)
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Also rmb dragging behaviour is strange. As lmb dragging is intuitive, I
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assumed that dragging small area with rmb would zoom out a lot,
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and dragging bigger areas would zoom out less.
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More far-future ideas
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[JKC] L&R <-> Average+Difference display. This way you can see
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what a stereo track gets mixed down to as mono, and the stereo
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content separately.
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[JKC] Split Track into band pass filtered components. Useful
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even just to view a waveform without background mains hum.
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[JS] Spectrogram would do that already?
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[JKC] No. This is a split of the actual waveform into two
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components which sum to the original.
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[JKC] Sound-diff: Ability to compare waveforms and have this
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displayed graphically.
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[JS] Can a plug-in operate on two tracks and generate preview to
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third track? Or replace the second track with the result.
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It would be essential that the subtraction between two tracks
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is made interactively so that user may time-shift the waveforms
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and manually find the alignment between the tracks.
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This may go post-1.2 if it requires changes to plug-in system.
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[JKC] I have in mind something more like Unix diff that compares
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and aligns waveforms. Useful when you have several takes of
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the same track.
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* Allow UI while importing
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Here's an older list of items. Things we've already done
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have been removed, so these are all still valid ideas.
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- Upload some icons for people to use with
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KDE, GNOME, WindowMaker, AfterStep, BlackBox...
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- Do "preflight" check of disk space before editing
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operations.
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- Check for existence of project _folder_ when opening
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a project - help the user find it if it's not there.
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- Smart Record dialog
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- Control latency
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- Use as little CPU power as possible
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- Detect dropped samples using many different methods
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- Visually show buffer sizes
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- Multi-channel record
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- Show remaining disk space
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- Pre-roll and post-roll: amount to play before and after
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a selection (see DG Malham email - Please add date so can
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check the archives for it.)
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UI::
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- Turn off autoscrolling if the user manually hits the scroll bar.
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- Label the "Left" and "Right" channels!
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- Select None
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- Small toolbar option
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- Create our own progress dialog:
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- Improved time estimate
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- Stop and cancel buttons (not the same!)
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- A "mini view" of the whole project, which shows what part
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you're working on, etc. like a lot of other programs have
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- Visual track dragging
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- Split at labels
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- Improve Save prompt dialogs: use "Save", "Don't Save", and
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include the name of the file.
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- When a user exports the entire project (in any format)
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and the export doesn't require any mixing, mark the project
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as not dirty (i.e. don't ask if they want to save it).
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- Put close box in toolbar.
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- Make ID3 tag dialog optional when saving MP3s
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- Import... should be able to import Audacity projects
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and Audacity project files
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- Adapt text color - should be white by default if
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the background color is very dark
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- Invert selection (for now, until we allow discontiguous selections,
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this should mean two options: select up to selection,
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and select after selection)
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- Legend (Ruler) for pitch and spectrum
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- A way to turn a track into a loop. It would be cool if the
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display showed the "real" waveform once, and then "ghosts" of
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that waveform repeating forever... (We now have a loop-play
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using shift-play which goes some way to answering this request).
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- Scrubbing, where you here the track speeded up as you drag
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the play marker.
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Import/Export::
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- Import/Export markers in WAV files (like Goldwave does -
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see email from Shane M. - Please add date so can check archives.)
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Effects::
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- Add real-time effects directly to tracks (see Ezequiel 5/10/2002)
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- Freeverb 3.0 (and better interface)
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- Smart Mix (like Quick Mix but guarantees no clipping)
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- Cross-fade (smooth between two tracks)
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- Native port of Freeverb (ideally optimized)
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- Save VST plug-in parameters to a file, or at least
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remember the last settings
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Future:
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- Speed issues when you have a project of 5 or more tracks
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- Edit markers
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- discontiguous selection
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- visualization window: VU meters, equalizer, continuous waveform, oscilloscope
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- Mouse scroller should vertically scroll project (Um, isn't it assigned
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to zoom-in/-out now?)
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- User-adjustable fonts so I don't have to recompile just to get the
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ruler looking decent and the track label fitting.
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arch-tag: 391c81dc-d7dc-48ea-9aec-98f4c9728be7
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