[audacity4blind] Re: time shifter plugin
- From: Gale Andrews <gale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:34:18 GMT
| From Eric Lueck <echodash19@xxxxxxxxx>
| Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:29:00 -0800
| Subject: time shifter plugin
> I hope someone can help too, this problem has prevented me from using
> Audacity at all.
Hi Eric,
You've said that before but you didn't explain the steps to make
the problem happen.
Most likely Robert gave you the explanation (read below). You
deselected a track, applied Time Shifter or performed another
action, undid the action with CTRL + Z, but the Undo then reselects
tracks due to an Audacity bug.
Or you did not have a range selected in the tracks, and you
need to turn off "Select All... if none" in Tracks Preferences.
Note that in 2.0.6 (when released), the problem with Undo
reselecting tracks will be fixed. What you can do to avoid the
problem until 2.0.6 is to make the wanted change to the selection
*after* changing which tracks are selected. Then Undo will not
reselect tracks.
Undo still causes some unwanted focus changes in 2.0.6-alpha.
Gale
> 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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