User:Djiboun/sorted table

This an example of sortable table using the highest-rated feature request of 08:28, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Feature	Vote
Allow real-time effects (64 votes) could allow effect intensity/LADSPA plugin parameters/panning to be varied in real-time? include something similar to the envelope tool to adjust the effect parameters? I suggest that the Equalizer can be made adjustable as the sound file is being played . Stomp box/guitar effects: (3 votes) - one of the most useful features of Diamond Cut 7. Maybe make it adjustable in real-time while recording, or while the monitor feature is enabled, but not recording for a selected track. This is a useful feature in REAPER.	64
Synchronize playback / recording without manual time-shift tool, using MTC/SMPTE, with Audacity either as Master or Slave (61 votes)	61
Allow direct MIDI editing/playback and incorporate midi sequencer (51 votes) It doesn't make a lot of sense to add support for MIDI files if Audacity can't also be used as a sequencer. Obviously this would take some time, but if sufficiently developed would make Audacity competitive even with ProTools and Sonar! If MIDI tracks are eventually supported, it would be neat to include a piano roll and notation window in the future.	51
Multi-channel output (51 votes) mix down to Dolby 5.1, 7.1, 10.2, 64.4 etc. or standard old-fashioned electroacoustic 4 and 8 channel circular arrays) Should include a patch panel to define routing of multi-channel audio to specific channels of a multi-channel device.(5 votes)	51
BPM and beat timecode detection with automatic beat matching (43 votes) Then let the Timeline display the detected time signature and bars (7 votes)	43
Punch-in and punch-out recording (42 votes) When overdubbing, the command for this should start playback before punch-in point (5 votes) While convenient, this is not as flexible as recording on another track, which lets you adjust the timeline position of the new recording precisely and cross-fade it so it sounds seamless.	42
Scrubbing: (41 votes) - one of: Basic functionality: Drag playback position left/right while playing, no effect until drop. (21 votes) Common in audio players, for example Foobar. Allows to judge the end of (long) selections without having to play repeatedly. it would be nice to see it implemented how sony sound forge has it implemented with Keyboard Shortcuts to Toggle Timeline Scrub Mode JKL shuttle. Audio reproduction while dragging/playing: (20 votes) Drag cursor back and forth across a particular point and hear the audio as a function of the direction and speed of the cursor. Allows to zero in on the beginning of a plosive syllable or other distinctive sound as an edit point. Precisely analogous to rocking the tape back and forth on the playback head of a recorder. Could also have a preset speed using Fast Forward/Rewind buttons. There is a hotkey B for play to selection and various alternative means of improved navigation in Beta Audacity. In particular, rapidly using repeated left or right arrow presses sound quite like reproduction while dragging, even though audio stops between arrow presses - see Navigation Tips.	41
Panning envelope editing (this is a really basic thing that is sorely needed in the current version (39 votes)	39
Automation: Extend batch processing to include features dependent on selecting parts of/all tracks (e.g. trim, fades, batch eq) (36 votes) Control Audacity from command line (32 votes)	36
Import/Export AAC/MP4 files using open source FAAC library. This would support AAC multichannel and AAC+ (low bitrate streaming-optimised variety of AAC) (29 votes)	29
Bind effect parameters to buttons or keyboard shortcuts: including particular settings thereof e.g. one keystroke to amplify + 3 dB, another keystroke -3 dB, another to compress (28 votes) Effects for which this has been requested: Amplify; Change Speed; Fade In/Out; Generate Tone; Insert Silence; Noise Removal; Repair; DC removal ; Chris' Compressor	28
Markers on Waveform Ability to quickly put in, with one keystroke, a vertical mark that stays on the waveform and can be labeled. Common feature in audio editors. The mark should be draggable to re-position, but should stay with the segment or copies of the segment when they are moved. Ideally, it should also be possible to select the area between any two marks easily - e.g. with a double click. Should be possible to snap a region to the markers. Should be implemented in addition to split lines. Very necessary for long-form documentary editing, where you are identifying and then going back and handling many different selections from a long file. (26 votes)	26
Timestamp metadata CART metadata as used by radio stations There are several thousand users of Audacity who would find it convenient to have all the labeling of tracks done at the production stage rather then the 2 stages required now (4 votes) BWF: Support reading/exporting embedded timestamp information in Broadcast WAV files (BWF) (26 votes) One reason Audacity fails to support important metadata is that it does not support export of an AES-31 compliant Audio Decision List (ADL) It's about priorities and to what extent mainline Audacity should support features the majority of users would not avail themselves of (even if they are "standards"). An equal case could be made for adding support for the CART metadata chunk required by radio stations. Timestamp metadata is essential for working on projects of longer duration (interviews, news gathering, live recording, podcasts, etc). There are dozens of digital recorders that support BWF timestamp metadata. Leaving such features out of Audacity effectively excludes a large potential audience from using Audacity. As a workaround, I have just written a python program that reads the WAV file in BWF format produced by the M-Audio Microtrack recorder, and generates a text file that can be imported as a label track into Audacity via Tracks > Edit Labels.(The hardest part was to search for the information on WAV chunk formats.Guenterrote 21:53, 9 March 2010 (CST)	26
Effects Categorisation: Allow the effects drop-down menu capable of sub-folders or categorisation so that the user can organize his plug-ins however he wishes. (23 votes) Only 2 levels deep (Effects > Category), not 3 levels as tried before (Effects > Category > Sub Category). Sub categories are just too fiddly and too much clicking. With just one level of categories, the menu will open by hovering the mouse, making locating a specific effect much quicker and easier. (5 votes) Preference setting to turn categorisation off. (3 votes) Customised categories and sorting of entries (2 votes) Include "Favourites" folder at the top for frequently used plug-ins (could be either autogenerated and sorted by number of calls, or rely on user adding items) (9 votes) 1.3.6 Beta had incomplete categorisation of Nyquist and LADSPA plug-ins. Categorisation has a penalty in more difficult navigation, and was withdrawn from 1.3.7 until there is (at least) a way to turn it on and off.	23
Sound Activated Recording (currently in Audacity Beta only) Pre- and post-roll duration: define a duration to be recorded before the threshold-level sound occurs, and similarly a duration to be recorded after the input falls back below the threshold. Requires buffering of the recording for pre-roll, but is expected behaviour for this type of tool. (23 votes) A post-roll delay (say 4 seconds) would allow realistic recording of dialogue Segment each recording event (4 votes) with labels (5 votes) with clip lines (1 votes) Report system clock times for each recording event: (5 votes) could be a display on timeline; added to names of labelled regions; available in Debug log; or an exported text file via a button in Recording preferences (data only retained per session) Adjustable start-time (2 votes) This is already possible if you turn on Sound Activated Recording and then start Timer Record. You just have to set an appropriate duration (not end time, obviously ) so that recording doesn't stop before you want it to Add more detailed comments here	23
Import/play video for synchronised soundtrack editing (22 votes) No need for Audacity to edit the video. Alternatively, Audacity could send/receive SMPTE or MTC timecode data e.g. to VLC or mplayer.	22
Fast-foward and Fast-reverse to the Next or Previous Silence, Edit or marked Point. It would be nice if tab cycled through all clips/regions in all tracks (if no track is selected), starting from the current cursor position. Or, if a track is selected, tab just cycles through the regions/clips just in that track. Same for shift-tab. (21 votes) You can already tab between labels when the focus is in the Label Track, then click in the label to recall the point or selection area denoted by the label	21
Import/Export AC3 files (20 votes)	20
Record from multiple sound devices at once - a lot of multi-channel cards look like this to the application, rather than one multi-channel device. (19 votes) there must be the possibility of selecting, for any track, a recording source, from the ones available for a certain sound card (also with the possibility of using multiple sound cards) for mono tracks a mono IN form the sound card must be chosen; for stereo tracks, two mono INs from the soundcard must be chosen (but they can also be the same) for each track the INs can be the same or different, and there must be a key for selecting whether the track is selected for recording or not a versatile possibility would be to be able to choose the default recording source from Audacity just the way it is done now, and this is selected by default for each track, but with the possibility, for each track, of selecting a different recording source, the way I just described this would also allow the possibility of easily setting the sampling rate, depth and number of channels for a track, before recording, and not simply based on master Audacity preferences and project settings, with maximum versatility This theoretical solution is really for Windows where you need ASIO drivers for multi-channel recording but release builds of Audacity can't include ASIO support. Try building Audacity with ASIO support (for your own private non-distributable use only) or find a sound device that uses EWDM drivers. See this Wiki page on multi-channel recording	19
Import (extract) and/or Export (burn) CD audio tracks (18 votes) There is experimental code for CD Import/Export in progress. Help welcome.	18
Preference for monitoring on by default (16 votes) We initially didn't do this because of concerns about performance on lower powered machines. We've since had feedback on this that is works fine and that not having monitoring "on" is causing a bigger problem - especially with new users. This however is not such an easy change as it appears - handling the situation when a device is changed/swapped out for example but Audacity is still looking for an input to read - it may not be fixed quickly Until monitoring is "always on", should be a way of indicating if monitoring is on or not, because on a quiet system, noise may be off the meter (7 votes) Possible ways of doing so: a different background colour for the meter bars; a dynamic tooltip (maybe not possible with wxWidgets); a button and LED? Note that 1.3.5 lets you choose the display range minimum for the meters.	16
Extreme Stretch effect - see this extension page in the Wiki: Extreme Stretch Effect (16 votes)	16
Control Audacity by a foot pedal attached to the game, serial or USB port so that hands are free for transcription work. Also useful for non-transcription applications, such as recording off a commercial two-way radio with a squelch output signal. (15 votes)	15
More Context Menu (right-click or CTRL-click) functionality (14 votes) Right-click functionality on selection region - ideas: Send to new track: or to a labelled position in an existing track. Apply filters: Workflow and reduced mousing benefits. Set Envelope Points: creates start and end points on the envelope automagically. Cut; copy; paste; Undo (2 votes) Zoom In; Zoom Out Select all; Select in all tracks Silence Delete Track: (1 votes)	14
Import audio from video files/transport streams: such as AVI/MPEG e.g. by demuxing (13 votes)	13
Note recognition: WAV or MP3 to MIDI capabilities (12 votes) This is hard to do except with pure tones. We'd want to leverage existing open source sound analysis software. Any suggestions of what? If you do it with pure tones, that is still great!	12
Allow direct import of MIDI files into Projects as sampled audio waveforms, which are then editable and exportable as WAV, MP3 etc. (11 votes)	11
Real time plot when playing audio: (11 votes) Or, in view of the CPU demands of calculating the spectrum, have Audacity do plot spectrum at given time intervals. Plotting spectrum while recording would likely be impractical due to the risk of errors writing the recording data.	11
Import/Export AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) found e.g. on Nokia/SonyEricsson/Blackberry/iPhone Mobile Phones' Voice Memo or Playing features (supported in FFmpeg) (10 votes) AMR support in FFmpeg can't be legally distributed, so user must build their own FFmpeg library	10