[audacity4blind] Re: time shifter plugin

  • From: Eric Lueck <echodash19@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:29:00 -0800

I hope someone can help too, this problem has prevented me from using
Audacity at all.

On 1/3/14, Robert Hänggi <aarjay.robert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2014/1/4, Brad Erhardt <brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I have been playing with the time shifter plugin by David R. Sky. If
>> anyone
>> is familiar with this it allows you to put two numbers in representing
>> the
>> amount you want the left and the right channels shifted. Then you select
>> seconds or milliseconds and press okay.
>>
>> The strange thing is however that no matter how many times I seem to make
>> sure that only one track is selected the timeshifter plugin seems to be
>> shifting both my tracks. If anyone can give me some clues as to how to
>> fix
>> this it would be appreciated.
> The plug-in just works with the tracks selected, it can't modify the
> number of tracks. Therefore, you must have unintentionally selected
> both tracks.
> I assume that either the undo command or the "Select all if nothing is
> selected"-preference has played that trick.
>
> First case:
> - both tracks were selected
> - you've deselected one track
> - you've applied the time shift tool.
> - the shift was to large/small, so you've pressed undo
> - You've now tried another value but...
> - ...both tracks are moved now.
>
> This is because the undo action reselects both tracks again--a quite
> annoying behaviour.
>
> If you want to "freeze" the selection and solo/mute states, you have
> to call a dummy effect (for example amplify by 0 or an analyse effect
> or "()s" in the nyquist prompt).
>
> Second case:
> - only one track is selected
> - Selection has a length of zero
> - if "Tracks-->Select all Audio in Project if none Selected is
> checked, all tracks over the whole time extent will be selected
> automatically, if you try to time-shift.
>
> Uncheck the mentioned check-box for this case.
> In future, a message box will appear if the selection has zero length.
>
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