Bug 2296 – There is no Import or Export for Macros

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 2296 - There is no Import or Export for Macros


Summary:	There is no Import or Export for Macros

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	2.4.0
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P2 RepeatableAll
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

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Reported:	2020-01-26 07:30 UTC by Peter Sampson
Modified:	2020-08-12 04:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

See Also:	2520 2521
Steps To Reproduce:	1) Create a Macro 2) Try to export it (for sharing, say) 3) Observe: you can't - there is no command or button for that 4) Try to import a Macro 5) Observe: you can't - there is no command or button for that
Release Note:	Group Macros *Macros cannot be imported or exported from within Audacity, there are no commands for that
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Workaround:	The Macros are stored as TXT files in in the "Macros" folder in Audacity's folder for application data: * '''Windows:''' Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\Macros * '''Mac:''' ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/Macros * '''Linux:''' ~/.audacity-data/Macros
Closed:	2020-08-10 00:00:00

Flags:	petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Win+ petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Mac+ stevethefiddle: Test‑OK‑Lin+

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Description Peter Sampson 2020-01-26 07:30:42 UTC

There is no Import or Export for Macros - so Macros cannot easily be shared between users or between a user's different computers.

It is possible to workaround tis, but that is geeky.  It relies on the user knowing where their Macros are stored - not easy unless they carefully RTFM.

Comment 1 Peter Sampson 2020-06-13 07:50:30 UTC

I'm upping this to P2 as we get frequent complaints about this on the Forum and on Paul's Facebook Audacity Voiceover Users' group

Comment 2 Peter Sampson 2020-06-28 07:58:34 UTC

We get a lot of complaints about this on the Forum and on the 3 Facebook pages.

And I note that we used to have non-operable grayed-out commands in the Manage Macros dialog when it was first written, showing that we realized that it was an important part of the functionality from the start - but we just didn't get around to implementing them in time.  

Instead we just quietly removed the grayed-out commands - but users still notice this omission and request it.

Accordingly I am removing the ENH status of this and bestowing it with proper "bug" status"

Comment 3 Leland Lucius 2020-08-08 22:18:36 UTC

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/52b15ce

Comment 4 Peter Sampson 2020-08-09 05:23:04 UTC

(In reply to Leland Lucius from comment #3)
Testing on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 58adb94

Import and Export works fine with a single Macro - a great improvement.  So technically this bug is "fixed".

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I do have a small kvetch about this though as I would have expected certainly to have been able to import multiple Macros at the same time.  For import you are led to what looks look and OS-based file selector - so I would've though that multiple selections could be made.  I only have six Macros (for my speed tests) and doing even that number one at a time is a bit tedious.

For Export it's trickier as we are using the Audacity Manage Macros dialog where only one Macro can ever be selected at a time as that is the one to edit or action - but an "Export All Macros" could be very useful.

Comment 5 James Crook 2020-08-09 11:56:09 UTC

Re Comment #4: This is feature creep.  Multiple Import/Export is a new feature request.  Not for 3.0.0.