The Recursive ISV

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I’m going to keep this one short tonight as I’m dog tired and in need of some rest…

Later on this week, possibly tomorrow, I’ll post some screenshots of today’s work.

Created the basic special effects interfaces today.  More on them when I post the screenshots.  Basically they are embedded into the main UI and can be toggled visible/hidden at the users discretion.  They await the linking in of the code to make them actually do something, but believe it or not that actually takes less work than their UI’s.

Coded the logic to allow an entire performance to play, should the user want it to, from start to finish.  Much like a “normal” media player might run through a playlist, except of course this does it Act by Act and Scene by Scene.

This is preparatory for adding the logic for fading tracks in and out and of course fading one track into another.

MixAction allows the user to choose which songs fade into each other.  It is not a one or all proposition.  So track one might play solo and finish with no fading.  Track two might fade out completely, or fade in, or fade into track three.  Track Three might instantly start over the top of fading track two and so on.  So basically the automation here is pretty flexible.

Cleaned up the Track Details dialog (the meta tags ripped from an Audio track within which they can be altered non-destructively to suit a project in terms of naming etc), removing the old references to track settings and special effects.

Spent way to much time fighting with the code I have for burning CD’s.  It’s broken on Vista sadly and I’m going to have to look into something else for this particular trick.  The fact that it should work not withstanding, works fine on XP and it’s using the MS SDK.  There are some mysterious things deep down inside Vista. 

Yet to do silence detection.  This is important as it assists in badly encoded Audio tracks (gaps at the start and end) and also in terms of how fading in and out is handled.

OK.  Will post something more in terms details tomorrow. 

Quote of the day:
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn

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