>Great! Another linux audio tool inaccessible >to the blind. I am feeling very very left out... > >Is there any chance that some of you might realize >that providing such functionality in a UI independent >way would be great? Every new LAD program I see is >basicly GUI dependent, and its functionality can not >be easily used from without command-line or ncurses environments. > >I know, I know, we are not important to you, and a too >small group of interest. But I had to make my >frustration some air.
i understand your frustration. but please remember that the challenge of making non-visual interfaces for editing multi-track audio that can be used dynamically (i.e its not just a file saying when to play which audio chunk when, and you edit the file with a text editor) ... this is still basically a research project that could probably justify at least a masters, if not a full doctoral degree :) the visual interface frees the user from having to remember a potentially huge amount of information because its made persistent in the visual display. i have not yet seen or heard any ideas about how to use a plain text interface to do most of the things that a visual editor like this makes possible. dynamically positioning audio when you can see it is an completely different process from editing a text playlist, for example. programs like this are typically 70% GUI and 30% audio backend. asking the developers to take such a program and remove the GUI is really like asking them to develop a second program. i say this with some experience, having developed a text-only interface to ardour. the people who have worked on and used that interface have had lots of discussions about how to de-visualize ardour's editor, but it appears extremely difficult, and is an independent project at least as large and complex as ardour's GUI interface. --p
