Annotations on timeline
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Description
Let's say you are listening to your work in progress track in playback, and you think that there is a problem in a certain part: you know that you need to do something, but you can't figure out what, at the moment.
What would you do? You would probably take the Project Notes and write: "From bar 23 to bar 42, in the lead synthesizer track, there is a problem".
As things like that happens many times, especially when collaborating with others, LMMS should offer an Annotation tool on the Song-Editor that allows you to highlight a certain part on the timeline and put some text as an annotation.
What will be highlighted? There are two different ideas:
- Highlight the timeline
- Highlight part of the track:
Related: #156
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Song-Editor context in this issue and the related issue #156. Resolve whether annotations highlight the timeline or part of a track, then define the interaction and persistence requirements; done means the selected annotation behavior is agreed and implemented with text attached to the highlighted range.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- design, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100