Hi Andrew. Personally I think it would help people to distinguish
between opening and importing if the "Open" command was only for
opening projects and the "Import" command had to be used for
importing. If it were being designed today, it might well have been
designed that way.
Another possibility would be the addition of a new command to "Open
and Import", which opens a new project and imports a list of files
into that new project.
Steve
On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 10:10, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Steve
All of what you say is true. But the confusion seems to arise because
Audacity can in fact open files other than those of the .aup variety. At one
point I did in fact have Audacity set to open mp3 files.
Out of interest, I just went to the Open dialog in Word and it offered me all
files, possibly because I told it to do so at some stage.
I stress that I do not have a problem with the way Audacity handles files and
projects. My musings were to explore whether setting Audacity to offer only
.aup files by default would help people to distinguish between opening and
importing.
Andrew
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Request for importing audio into Audacity
File type associations are normally set to associate a file type with an
application that can open that file type. For example, the file type JPEG
might be associated with Microsoft Paint. You would not expect JPEG to be
associated with Microsoft Word, even though it is possible to import a JPEG
file into a Word document.
The only file type that Audacity can actually open, is an Audacity project
file (.AUP). On first run on Windows, Audacity asks if you want to associate
AUP files with Audacity. It does not offer to associate WAV, or MP3, or MID,
or BMP, because although it is possible to import these file types into an
Audacity project, Audacity cannot actually open them, just as Microsoft Word
does not open JPEG files.
Now you "could" associate JPG files with Microsoft Word, but perhaps it might
not behave in the way that you want it to.
Steve
On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 08:58, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Thomas
Unless I changed from the default at some stage, Audacity's default setting
is to offer all files in the Open dialog. Reaper, on the other hand, by
default offers Reaper project files. Perhaps if Audacity offered only
Audacity project files by default there would be less confusion?
Andrew
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Thomas Byskov
Dalgaard
Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2019 4:02 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Request for importing audio into
Audacity
Hi!
Steve: i actually thought of at toggle in the preferences dialog that would
change the behavior in Audacity, so the logic would be something like:
If unchecked: Audacity would use the current method where it opens all
files in at new instance.
If checked: Audacity should do something like your idea of having at script
that would run...
Other daws does the same as Audacity, but I would much prefer that it ran a
kind of script rather than opening multiple instances of itself.
Robert: I actually discovered this as well with reaper, but I would not
prefer at command line argument, because this might not work in a case like
opening via other programs.
Andrew: Actually at daw like Reaper works the same way as Audacity if you
try to open via Windows Explorer it runs multiple projects instead.
Best regards Thomas
Sendt fra min iPhone
Den 30. apr. 2019 kl. 22.42 skrev Steve the Fiddle
<stevethefiddle@xxxxxxxxx>:
The problem is that the "Open" command does not mean "open a file",
it means "open a project". Audacity has no concept of opening audio
files, it just doen't work that way. This confusion between "open"
and "import" has been a very long running point of contention (at
least 10 years!). When you try to "open" two audio files, you are
actually telling Audacity twice to open a new project.
One way that I think your wish could be accomplished, would be for
Audacity to ship an additional small app or script which can be
associated with audio files. When launched, the script would handle
launching Audacity (if not already running), opening a new project
window, and telling Audacity to import a list of files into that new
project window.
Steve
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 19:16, Robert Hänggi <aarjay.robert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
+1 for this proposal.
I have the problem within reaper and want to open multiple items into
Audacity.
As you say, it will open each file in a separate Window.
Did you post that suggestion anywhere, e.g. the forum?
Best
Robert
On 28/04/2019, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard <tbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
I searched the manual and the preferences for find something but
failed to do so.
In some cases I want to open two files and edit them in the same
audacity project.
If I import them via the "Import audio" dialog box the tracks are
working great, but if I find them via the Finder on my Mac (or I
guess in Windows
Explorer) and open them inside Audacity from here it will make two
projects with one file on one track in each project.
would it be possible to make a preference so the user can choose
how Audacity would behave if a a file is selected so the choices could
be:
Open in separate projects (that's the way it does it now as default).
Open in one project: Would import the files into one project.
Best regards Thomas
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