If you're re-arranging audio/video without doing anything to the audio itself (like amplification, dynamic range compression, noise reduction), it has the advantage of not having to decompress/recompress the audio/video which can introduce more artifacts.
Seems like a very neat project. Unfortunately, 90% of what I do in Audacity is dynamic range compression, so it's a moot point for me.
@RL_Dane Great answer to my question. Tells me it wouldn't work for me either for most purposes. Might help for some simple editing tasks for radio though. I'll have to look into it for that, although I suspect it won't be worth the bother of having to work with two separate platforms.
Sure thing! Being able to rearrange A/V without having to decode/reencode it is really neat, though. They deserve major props for what they've been able to accomplish so far.
I'd love to see audio editing that happens purely in the frequency domain. It would be almost like lossless editing, as (AFAIK) you'd be tweaking the already-lossy-compreased values, rather than decode -> edit -> encode.
I'd love to see an editor smart enough to edit a compresses audio stream directly…
@RL_Dane Ya know, a lot of stuff that's difficult to impossible right now will be easy-peasy down the road. We're still dealing with a technology that's in its infancy.
Yeah, it's just usually a matter of one of the following happening:
A company decides to develop it and for some reason releases it as open source
An open source nerd with lots of experience in audio and codecs gets REALLY bored one day and/or miffed that there isn't more lossless editing tools... ;)
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