Hi,
thanks to all of you that have provided feedback on this issue. In
addition, Robbie, thanks for the feedback about the manual. I'll bring this
to the attention of the manual writers if it is still relevant after the
changes to the menus.
David.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Robbie <tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi David!
Here’s my feedback.
1. I only use the Align Tracks submenu.
2. I have not yet come across a scenario where I needed Move Selection
when Aligning.
3. I have assigned shortcuts to Align End to End and Start to
Cursor/Selection Start. The latter I use very often.
The manual text on Move Selection when Aligning could probably be worded
differently, to better explain its use. Here’s the passage.
“These commands are identical to the last five Align Tracks commands that
move the tracks equally, but also move the cursor (or selection) so that
after the align, the same audio plays in the aligned tracks. For example,
Move Selection when Aligning > Start to Cursor/Selection Start will align
the selected tracks with the current cursor position or selection start,
but then also move the cursor or selection along so that it remains at the
same position relative to the new position of the aligned tracks.”
The passage “after the align, the same audio plays in the aligned tracks”
might suggest that the selected audio is copied or even cut and pasted to
the aligned tracks.
Cheers! Robbie
*From:* audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@
freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *David Bailes
*Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:29 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Feedback requested about which of the align
commands people use
it would be really useful if as many people on this list as possible
could provide some information about which of the align commands they
currently use.
On the tracks menu, there are two sub menus for aligning: the align sub
menu, and the move selection when aligning sub menu. When you use the
commands on the second of these sub menus, the cursor or selection is
moved, as well as the audio being moved.
To provide feedback, if you could answer some or all of these questions,
that would be helpful.
1. Do you use only one of these sub menus, and if so, which one?
2. Do you use both of these sub menus? And if you do, some information on
the different tasks which you use the different menus would be useful.
3. None of the commands on these sub menus have default shortcuts. Have
you assigned keyboard shortcut to any of these commands, and if so, which
ones.
Just to give the background to why I'm requesting feedback on this. For
the next version of Audacity, the menus are being changed around a bit. The
current thinking for the align commands is just to have one align sub menu,
along with an option specifying whether or not the cursor/selection is also
moved. However, it's important that this reorganization doesn't have a
negative effect on people's workflow. Hence the request for information
about how people use the two existing align sub menus.
After people given some feedback to the questions above, I may post some
follow up questions, depending on peoples answers,
thanks,
David.
