I recently published a track and found that it had a long tailing silence. I deleted the track, so I could fix the problem and republish, but the entire project was gone. I should have carefully read the delete confirmation dialog box, but I didn't. I've found that I'm not the first AudioTool user to make this mistake. The reason that others didn't read the dialog, I suspect, is the same reason I didn't. We're all familiar with delete buttons and confirmation dialogs. It's tedious to imagine reading something you think you've already seen a thousand times. The removal of the entire project is an unexpected side-effect. With no undo, it's an infuriating one :(
Please modify the UI to make things more clear, or implement an undo/recover.
Thank you for everything you do. This is a great tool!
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"The removal of the entire project is an unexpected side-effect." No, it's not. The delete dialogue has just three short lines of text and the central one says: "Proceeding with this step will totally delete this track, including its corresponding draft." with bold for emphasis. It's hard to miss, even if you read it quickly. There are many examples in other software of dialogues warning of actions that can't be undone. I recommend to modify habits and always read what the program is trying to say. If you want to modify anything in a published track, just open it again, make changes and republish. Don't delete.
Thanks for contributing, Jordi. I'm a developer. I used some industry terminology, in order to be as clear as possible, for the benefit of the AudioTool devs. I understand that the terminology might not be immediately comprehensible to everybody. I apologize if you thought my feature request required your attention.
No apologies necessary. There wasn't anything in your request that was too technical or difficult to understand.
@jordynth The sentence says in a couple of short lines: You should be careful when crossing the street as you can get hit by a car. It doesn't matter green or red light, always check your surroundings.
It is hard to miss and should be very straight forward. Yet people still get hit by cars.
On a side note adding a recycle bin where deleted material could be stored is not a bad idea.
@borozo That's a poor analogy. A car might or might not pass when you're carelessly crossing the street. It's a matter of chance and that's why some people take it. A project -will- always be deleted whenever you press the aptly named delete button. There's no chance involved and the message expresses that clearly.
Someone once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.
o man, so sorry for your loss.
I made the same mistake a few days ago, it was a great techno track and i havent posted tracks for a while so this one was specialy good. stupid of me to think the studio is the midi intern part and the song would be an audiofile seperated from the source(studio).
Anyways, i will try to do it again.
Soooo NEVER DELETE YOUR TRACKS unless you never want to see them again.
Thnx for support andre.
fuck fl