Bugzilla – Bug 1764
Monitoring stops on stopping recording.
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:45:34 UTC
This is a design flaw in Audacity related to Bug 276 and Bug 386
This is related to this Proposal in the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Proposal_Monitoring_On and to this Feature Request which is one of our highest rated with 21 votes: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Feature_Requests#monitoring But I do not see this as a "design flaw" or even necessary - I, personally would not want to see monitoring "always on" I want to be able to turn it on and off
I personally don't see a need to change what we have already either. I wouldn't have any need to keep the recording monitor going after a recording was finished. I suppose someone might be making a series of recordings so would appreciate not having to turn it back on. Could that be made a preference? In the case of playback, I can see if recording monitoring is on and playback is started it doesn't make sense to keep the recording meter going, but at the end of play if the record monitoring was on before playing then it could be turned back on. Seems like a lot of work programming for little gain. IMO any change to the current behavior should have a preference to restore the old behavior.
OK. CLOSED INVALID. Looks like this is felt to be a debatable enhancement rather than being regarded as a bug. Re comment 1 - you could still turn monitoring on or off. It would just not turn off without you specifically clicking to. But we can debate details on the wiki design page.
