enter timecodes instead of drag to select about audiogram

[veltman]

Two potential improvements to help with this:

• Show the selected start and end time as you drag the selection, not just the duration.
• Make the playhead draggable/add a handle

Making the playhead draggable is a bit tricky because of the existing preview workflow that auto stops/starts the audio, but the rest should be straightforward enough.

[katieshelly]

i'm back in the audiogram app now about to do another episode. really struggling to highlight the piece of the waveform that I want. Working with a 30min audio file means it's almost impossible to drag and select with accuracy. And I have to re-listen to the whole clip every time I want to see what i've got... my workaround will probably be to edit the clip in an external editor. or to just over-select and let the clip cut abruptly at the end wherever it lands..

hopefully this insight into my process helps. just try it yourself to see how it's frustrating/doesnt behave like a normal audio editor -- just try selecting a specific 30s soundbyte from a 30min file ...

[veltman]

We've tried selecting snippets from longer files. There's certainly a resolution issue: with something 30 minutes long, you only have one pixel of horizontal space for every 3 seconds of audio, so doing precise cuts is difficult. It's something we're keeping in mind as we update the interface to accommodate multiple captions.

That being said, we're not going to go very far down the road of rebuilding a whole audio editor with zooming, scrolling, dynamic playheads, etc. The limited clipping functionality is meant an added convenience but if it doesn't meet your needs editing your audio in other software first makes sense.