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[don570]

new version of Bacon Recorder 2.3.5

-adds more information to log when a button
is clicked to set a recording time.

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[don570]

I've discovered two bugs in bacon Recorder while
working on an upgrade

1) Clicking on the Play button while a recording is
underway will result in a crash with some audio players.

2) If a delay value is entered and then click on
'Record Now' will result in a recording being delayed
rather than immediate. ( This confused me quite a
bit to track down the cause )

Good news is I have tracked down the causes and
will have a fix in an upgrade soon.

A new feature will be allowing /mnt/home/ to be entered
as an acceptable path to record.

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[nooby]

[don570]

TO nooby:
I noticed that I had a bug in the VU meter as well.

If it was left out on the desktop and the QUIT button was clicked ,
Bacon recorder would act strange. I think all
I need to add is a & character after the command to fix that
behaviour.

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The VU meter takes nothing to power!!
Just type 'top' in the console and you can see the
processes that are soaking up your computer.

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[don570]

Bacon recorder version 2.5

I finally have a version of Bacon recorder that I'm
satisfied with after spending the last couple of weeks
testing.

New features:

1) new folder selector should aid inexperienced users

2) Now supports /mnt/home/ as a destination folder,
however in some situation this only links you to the top of
file structure /. In other situations it will
link you to the partition where you have puppy installed.
It is easy to tell which is which by simply opening
/mnt/home/ and looking.

3) Both Retrovol and the VU meter can can left on the desktop safely.

4) There is now a warning message if you click 'Play' button
while a recording file is being created

5) Help button to suggest some possible destination paths.

6) The destination folder path must always end with a slash /

7) The destination folder path can have an empty
character space

8 ) The user can change the name of the recording by
clicking on the default button, then setting the name.
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Some notes and pics:

Here's a picture to help understand the new features





To better understand how Puppy Linux mounts a partition
and then names a partition, go to the console and type 'df'.
This will let you see if a label name is being used for
the partition. Note that labels are rarely used in Puppy Linux.





Certain Puppies can be difficult, such as Fluppy 012.
There is one rare situation in Fluppy 012 where finding a suitable folder
path can be difficult. Namely, booting with boot line
'puppy pfix=ram'.

Note that I find this rare and only occurs with a few oddball Puppy variants.

It still is possible to record on the partition where puppy is installed
by opening through /mnt/home/ as the picture below shows.
The folder selector icon can be useful in understanding this path.
Fortunately this is rare. Lucid puppy and Racy puppy don't have
this problem.

[nooby]

Even latest Lucid puppy 528-004 seems problematic???

sh-4.1# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 516040 204176 311864 40% /
/dev/sda3 231506208 205753708 25752500 89% /initrd/mnt/dev_save
...
sh-4.1#

It is not easy to remember this one without noting it down
somewhere
/dev/sda3 /initrd/mnt/dev_save
Usually one want something easy like /mnt/home/ and
not that suprise.

I must have done something unusual setting it up?
I prefer Lupu 528-004 so I need to find out to set it
straight so it has /mnt/home/ instead
Any idea what could have happen for it to give that result?

But that will be tomorrow.

Thanks for all the effort you put into this app.

[don570]

Note to Nooby:

[RSH]

Downloaded and added to the LazY Puppy Update List - well, i have to try it first; but i am sure it is well done.

[don570]

Note to RSH -

Glad to see you're still working on Lazy.
I think it's the best of the best

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Note to Nooby:

In situations where you want to record to
the partition where your pupsave file resides
try

[nooby]

Don can you pardon my naive question.

I want to keep the old bacon recorder
is it okay if one rename it to deacon recorder or something
or will the pet process delete something needed and
only the newest one will work? Will PPM create havoc
if one don't delete the old one?

I want the stereo mp3 to be first choice and not wav.

I've forgotten how to set it up like that.

Why is it important for you to have wav as first choice?
I fail to remember to change it every time and end up
with a too big recording with wrong name wav named mp3.

The Bacon Recorder would be more newbie friendly if it
had mp3 stereo as default choice and wav as last choice.

Edit Okay I test it now within 60 minutes

[nooby]

Installed version 2.5 and and set it to mp3 and started recording.

But one need to do it manually /mnt/home/ it only show /mnt/ when one chose /mnt/home/ and if one record with /mnt/ then it does not end up on /mnt/home/ but on /mnt/ obviously.

I doubt a newbie would get such things

[don570]

[don570]

New version Bacon Recorder 2.6

A minor bug was fixed --> white space
in the output path used in a message
when STOP button clicked

Two new warning messages created

1) if a length of zero is entered

2) if no length is given


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[nooby]

Sorry to be dense and thick in head whatever the word for it is.

[don570]

In the script the variable is called COMBOBOX.
There is three possible settings in this order
Wave,
Mp3 stereo
Mp3 mono

(I think I call them LOC901,LOC902,LOC903)

Change the order to whatever you want.