Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Nicola Bernardini's sound file librarycomments
From: rob (rob_AT_kaybee.org)
Date: ke elo 18 1999 - 16:07:47 EDT
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:
> Yes, an application can do non-destructive editing but it should be a
> free choice of the application programmer. "Non-destructive editing" and
> "direct editing" have each they pros and cons and good editors may work
> in both ways (see Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge for Windows).
well my suggestion isn't meant to exclude one way or another. i
think it is a good candidate for a sound library because it can be done in
a general way, is non trivial (if done right), and lots of differnt audio
editing apps could take advantage of this easily to make every users life
easier. it would be a completely seperate mechanism which would allow the
use of a single read/write method simplifying app design for a powerful
feature.
i think it might end up being important to make as many of the
basic, useful services exist in common, so that one needn't be tied to,
for example, the authors choice of gui toolkit, platform. this way the
concentration can be towards providing a coherent, easy, and pretty
interface to the user, instead of reproducing basic features.
rob
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