Talk:Label Tracks

Earlier discussions
Gale 31May13:

I am not convinced the following text in "Editing, Resizing and Moving labels" is in the right place. I can see how it's happened, but we are not talking in this section about deleting labels except for the cut and paste move method, and that is explicitly only selecting in the label track.


 * In many cases if you delete audio preceding a label you will want the label to move back so that it still relates to the audio it related to before the deletion. To achieve this, drag the selection down into the label track before deleting. Keyboard users can include the selection in the label track by pressing then . See Selecting using the keyboard.

This came about because I was not completely happy with the text in "Removing Labels" - it was saying "how" but not "why". So before I saw the indented paragraph above I had roughed out the following for "Removing Labels".


 * Labels can be removed (deleted) in a number of ways. Often you may want to remove labels from the label track without removing their associated audio, but also without affecting the relationship of the remaining labels to their audio. The quickest way to do this is to select any region that extends beyond the label(s) to be removed (without reaching other labels), then choose (or its shortcut ). This will remove the selected label(s) without moving any labels that lie to right of the removed labels, so keeping those following labels synchronized with their audio.


 * To remove labels or a region of label track so that the following labels move back (leftwards), select over or between labels then choose or its shortcut . A typical use case is removing the region in the label track together with its associated region of audio, which you can do by including the audio track in the selection. This also keeps the following labels synchronized with their audio.

Perhaps this doesn't matter, and if the first para above or a tweaked version of it is an improvement, we just don't need the last two sentences in the second para. But it looks kind of odd not to say it and thus leave it at a fringe case of only selecting in the label track.

Can you give this some thought, Peter? I'm off now until tonight. My current feeling is to move "Keeping labels synchronized with their audio" out of the "Editing, Resizing and Moving labels" page into the landing page and do no more than allude to it on the split off page. After all, we mention Sync-Lock on the split page but not the landing page, and I doubt that is correct.
 * Peter 31May: I like the look of your new text so I moved it in (I retained the old text, commented out, for comparison). I also tried moving in the synch stuff from the subsidiary page to the landing page.  Better?
 * I also experimented with moving the sync section to the Removing Labels page - I think it fits well there.