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.

 

Reviewed but not added - discussing internally

• Improving the Noise Removal effect in Audacity by adding the "threshold" control that was used in Audacity 1.2.x and offering both a full version (with the additional slider) and a simplified interface that used a single slider for more/less noise reduction. I think that in the simplified interface, could combine both the "threshold", and the "amount by which the noise should be reduced" in a single slider, and fixed values for "attack/decay" and "smoothing" (probably fixed at the current default values that are used in Audacity 1.3.x). At low amounts of noise removal, the effect would be more like the 1.3.x effect, then as the slider was increased it would become more like the 1.2.x effect. Plus 1 vote
  • SteveTF adds: The upshot of all this, is that it would be good to have the threshold slider back, but in addition to the refinements that we currently have in 1.3.x - If the developers think that this makes the effect too complicated, perhaps with the categorisation of the effects menu, there could be two versions, a simple, and an advanced interface.
  • See this Forum topic.

• Update Notification: It could be useful to put a simple notification functionality into Audacity which checks for a new version of Audacity and informs the user in case it finds any program updates.
  • SteveTF comments: Auto-update and other "phone home" features can be a real nuisance for audio recording. You are an hour into a recording, then suddenly Windows update, your anti-virus, or some other program clicks in with a "phone home" and you get a drop-out in your recording.
  • Original poster JD9 responds: I understand your objection, but if the program would inform the user not until the next start of the program by a little window with a short information and a website link which can simply be dropped with a "don't show this message again"-checkbox, I think nobody would be really annoyed about it. You understand what I mean? The prgoram would check in a set interval for an update and only inform the user at the next start, so that you don't would be annoyed while you are working with the program. Also this is meant to be an optional feature which should be deactivatable from the options menu.

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.