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Thread ID: 68448	2006-04-28 09:10:00	Polderbits v Audacity	Misty (368)	Press F1

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450276	2006-04-28 09:10:00	Hi This may not be a fair contest as Polderbits costs money and Audacity is free. Nevertheless it would be interesting to have a small measure of comparability - just out of interest. The latest version 5 Build 92 of Polderbits has recently been released and they say that the improvements are: WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 5? We've made over 30 improvements to the software. Here is the top 10: 1 - New automatic track splitter options in the Editor (when you click on the "scissors" button): * You can now determine the length of silence in between tracks to search for and the (background-)analysis of the recording now only starts when the track splitter windows is first opened. * The option to split tracks in the middle of detected silences, or split tracks on the start and end of sound plus an optional fade-in and out. * Split a recording in equally sized tracks. * Split a recording in a given amount of tracks. 2 - The Editor window can now be enlarged by dragging at either of the 4 window edges and the edit-point controls are now slightly larger than before. This makes it easier to view and edit your tracks. 3 - The Recorder now displays the percentage of the recording volume setting and warns about saturation when the volume is too high. 4 - The Recording Timer window now has the option to automatically save a timed recording and then exit the Recorder. 5 - Separate left and right channel Wave view in the Editor (through the right-click menu of the Wave view). 6 - To make sure you can see the name of your tracks on your MP3 player, an "ID3V1 MP3-tag" is now included in MP3 files when saving multiple tracks, using the given Track and Album name. 7 - When defining a new Cut-Start point in the Editor, the Cut-End point is now always set a bit ahead initially so it is easier to edit. 8 - A new recording that is not yet edited, but directly saved as an uncompressed WAV sound file, is now saved almost instantly when being saved in a folder that resides on the same disk the temporary recording is stored in. This can speed up things quite a bit. 9 - The possibility to Select/Deselect All, or to invert the selection of tracks in the Save Tracks window of the Editor. This helps you to save exactly those tracks you need. 10 - The Editor now remembers the last save-as-type and sound quality for existing recordings you opened for editing. How does that compare please ? I am certainly not trying to denigrate Audacity in any way as it is obviously an excellent program. Just wondering the advantages/disadvantages of a paid program doing somewhat similar things ?? Misty :)	Misty (368)
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