[audacity4blind] Re: Track/project length, SyncLock and more

  • From: "Robbie" <tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:01:33 +0200

Hi David!
mental arithmetic? That went to the junk yard together with my reel to
reel tape machine. I was hoping for electronic computing. :-) Well I'll
just have to revive some grey cells...

More importantly, I do not in fact get a beep with Audacity 2.0.1 and
Windows 7 64 bit. I did get a minuscule beep with the previous version.
According to the release notes the beep was changed to the "system bell".
I take that to mean the Windows notification sound, but this does
apparently not work. It seems to be a bug?

Thanks a lot for clearing up the SyncLock issue. The manual does mention
label tracks but it assumes a certain mental agility to work out that the
whole project is affected without them. There's that word again...

Cheers, Robbie
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Bailes
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:08 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Track/project length, SyncLock and more

Hi Robbie,
re: sum of length of tracks. I don't know of any automated way of doing
this. But you could find out the length of each track by moving the cursor
to the end of each track and reading its position, and then add the
lengths using either mental arithmetic or a spread sheet.

re: sound at the length of longer activities. If I set the option to beep
on completion of longer activities in the interface category of
preferences, then it doesn't make any sound whatsoever on my computer
(audacity 2.0.1, windows 7 64 bit). Do you get a beep, and if so for what
activities?

re: sync lock.
I don't think your understanding of sync lock is correct. Here's another
description:
For the purposes of sync locking, the tracks in a project are considered
to form one or more groups. This grouping is determined by the label
tracks in the project. If there are no label tracks, then there's just a
single group.
If there are label tracks, then if a label track is followed by an audio
track, then the label track is the last track in the group, and the audio
track is the first track in the next group.

A track is sync locked if any of the tracks in its group are selected.
Currently there isn't a way of Jaws reading whether a track is sync
locked.

David.




________________________________
From: Robbie <tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 12:54
Subject: [audacity4blind] Track/project length, SyncLock and more


Hi!
I have a couple of questions.
Is there a way of determining the sum length of all tracks? In other
words, how long a project would be if all tracks were aligned end to end.

If I understand the SyncLock function correctly, it is supposed to effect
only those tracks which are selected when SyncLock is activated. According
to the manual those tracks should then display a SyncLock icon. I have two
problems here. First, no matter which tracks are selected at the time of
activation, SyncLock is applied to all tracks. Second, being blind I can't
tell which tracks have the SyncLock icon. Does anyone know of a way to
have JAWS announce this?

And here's a little item for the whishlist. I would like to be able to
choose a sound for the completion of longer activities. What with all the
warning and info sounds on a blind user's computer, the system beep just
isn't distinctive enough nor loud enough. Many other programs let you
select your own sounds for such purposes. Would that be possible for
Audacity?

Cheers, Robbie   

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