Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Nicola Bernardini's sound file librarycomments
From: Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu (umbpux_AT_tin.it)
Date: to elo 19 1999 - 03:03:30 EDT
rob wrote:
>
> 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 took your words has as suggestion for a workaround.
Including this mechanism in an audio library is very interesting and
I'll think of it seriously. If you or anybody has more precise ideas for
the API, I'd like to read them.
> 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.
This is the AbstractAudio spirit!
Thanks,
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
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