asweigart / asweigart/pyaudacity
Generate silence in new project is not impossible
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- Python
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Description
The `__init__.py` file has an incorrect comment:
```
# TODO - Bring up to the Audacity team that there's no way for the macros to just move the cursor to a timestamp in the project because there's no menu item for this. But there's literally no way to start a new project and create, like, a 1-second silence.
```
To create a 1-second silence in a new project:
1. `NewMonoTrack:` or `NewStereoTrack:`
2. `SelectTime: Start=0 End=1`
3. `Silence:`
More generally, use `SelectTime` to move the cursor position.
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Research direction
Open __init__.py and locate the TODO comment about creating silence in a new project. Confirm the documented macro sequence—NewMonoTrack: or NewStereoTrack:, SelectTime: Start=0 End=1, then Silence:—and update the comment to explain that SelectTime can move the cursor position. Done means the comment no longer claims this is impossible.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 75/100