Re: audacity 1.3.3 importing errors

    | From John Kelleher
    | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:57:23 -0700 (PDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-help] audacity 1.3.3 importing errors
    | audacity 1.3.3
    | linux
    | slackware 12.0
    | gcc 4.1.2
    | kernel 2.6.21.5
    |
    | This version of audacity does NOT import multiple files into one
    | project from the command line. Instead it opens them in separate
    | windows.
    |
    | Also, I liked how audacity 1.2.x, when importing from the GUI (and from
    | the command line) would insert the files top to bottom depending on the
    | order I specified. E.g., if I wanted to see:
    |
    | goo.wav
    | foo.wav
    | doo.wav
    |
    | I said 'audacity goo.wav foo.wav doo.wav', or choose those files from
    | the GUI (with CTRL-mouse click) in that order.
    |
    | But 1.3.3 alphabetizes the files before inserting, resulting in:
    |
    | doo.wav
    | foo.wav
    | goo.wav
    |
    | which forces me to manually rearrange their order after importing.

I am on Windows but I will comment as follows. I cannot replicate your
issue with 1.3.3 alphabetising when inserting as it does not do this. For
me the behaviour when CTRL + clicking on a batch of files is the same
with either 1.2.6 or 1.3.3 - you get the files in the order they are in
in the file manager. So if I clicked on goo.wav before foo.wav but the
file view was sorted in alphabetical order, I will always get foo.wav
at the top of the list.  If I sort the list in reverse alphabetical order, and
click on foo.wav then goo.wav, I get goo.wav at the top of the list.
Is this the explanation for your issue, and if not, have you built Audacity
from source code or did you install an Audacity package provided by your
distribution?

Importing multiple files into multiple windows arose from a change we made
so that you could right-click a file from a file manager and "Open with
Audacity" when Audacity was already running. Previously in 1.2.6 if you did
this you would only receive a warning that Audacity was already running,
because the right-click command was interpreted as a command to open
another instance of Audacity, whereas only one instance of Audacity is
allowed at a time. It is not necessary that the change should be implemented
in this way so that multiple files import into multiple windows, though some
users might prefer this. I personally think it would be more useful if by
default Audacity always imported subsequent files into the same window (so
that as you say multiple drag retains the 1.2.6 behaviour) but that it should
also be a user preference. I will add your suggestion to our user-editable
Feature Requests page:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Feature_Requests

Please feel free to visit the page and add your vote to any of the other
suggestions made there.  


Gale Andrews



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