Talk:Importing Audio

Importing Compressed Audio Files

 * Gale 04Aug11: On Linux, FLAC files come in via libsndfile by default so trigger the uncompressed files warning and can be read directly and imported on demand. No answer made when I enquired on -devel, but I added a note about it to the article page. We don't really have much choice since we mention FLAC twice as a compressed format. I vaguely recall this may be because FLAC support for on-demand using libflac is disabled until after 2.0 due to bugs. If so, I don't know why we don't turn it on for all platforms unless "historical" reasons make it easier for Linux.

Importing Uncompressed Audio Files

 * Gale 04Aug11: Steve wanted to have "faster" as point 1 but we agreed to have "safer" first as it corresponds with the GUI. For the same reason we refer to "begin editing almost immediately", not "linking".
 * Peter: While drawing the waveform the status bar only shows the remaining recording time. I could not get it to show the "percentage completion" or "complete" messages - see the image I recently uploaded for the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/File:ODinprogress.png
 * Gale 04Aug11: Nothing has changed. You still have to hover over the track to display the status bar completion % even if you only have one track. I'll update the image with % display and clarify that presently.