Pending Feature Requests

This locked page is for the use of sysops to transfer feature requests from the Audacity Forum and other sources. They will be reviewed and where appropriate transferred to the Wiki Feature Requests page. For this page, it is best not to summarise, but paste in verbatim, so the context of the suggestion can be understood.

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• Allow waveform to show label start/end locations A label is supposed to indicate something about the audio (waveform). But currently, labels can't show specifically where they're "pointing to" on the waveform. Perhaps a dotted verticle line extending from the label-line up through the audio waveform would help. Then, when one moves a label-line, they can see where the label hits the waveform. This capability could stay off unless one clicks on a label....
  • WC replies: In Audacity 1.3.x there is a useful feature added whereby the cusor will "snap to" a particular label, indicated by a temporary yellow vertical line in the track. This eanbles you to set the cursor at exactly the label position.
  • miker responds: I'm using 1.3.5. I understand the "snap to" feature, but what I'm asking about is a bit different. I want to move a label and know where that label is pointing on the waveform. If the yellow line you mention popped up and stayed active while I click to drag the label, that'd be perfect.
  • SteveTFadds: I can see the usefulness of that feature. There's a slightly different method for doing something similar (though I agree, not quite as convenient). You can "select" the area of the wave that you are interested in (Click and drag over the audio track), then move the label ends to match the selected are (no yellow lines unfortunately, but you can use "Ctrl + mouse wheel" to zoom in/out and make your markers sample accurate.

• Allow playback start close to playback cursor In the Windows version when one left-clicks on the timeline, playback starts at the pointer location and a green playback cursor is established. A gray quick-play-range is established just below the green playback cursor. If one wishes to jump to a significantly earlier or later place on the timeline, it's easy to do...just left-click where you wish to jump to and playback starts where you click. However, if you wish to jump a short distance, you can't. The existence of the gray quick-play-range prevents you from clicking close to the green playback cursor. I'm taking radio shows and deleting the commercials. I find the commercials by clicking along the timeline. When I find the commercial, I then want to find the beginning, label the beginning, find the end, label the end, then highlight/delete the commercial. The problem is that when I've clicked close to the beginning of the commercial, I can't re-click to zero in on the exact beginning because the gray quick-play-range prevents me from doing so. If the gray quick-play-range device didn't affect the pointer when the pointer is up by the green playback cursor, that would solve this problem.

 

Reviewed but not added - intending to delete

These pending FRs were posted here but on review, appear to be inappropriate for the reasons stated (for example, the Beta already supports this feature). Unless reasons for adding them/more explanations of usefulness/purpose are given, they will be deleted.