07/06/09

Date:  07/06/09

Phase:  Engineering

Version:  None

Summary of Activities:

As aforementioned, this week’s aim is to complete the playlist window.  The past few days have been focused on the final touches of the window.  These activities are inclusive of housekeeping, visuals, and a few simple additions to the functionality of the environment.  The proceeding is a summary of the playlist window along with its features and functions. 

Playlist Edit Window

The playlist window is a window separated from the main window that functions as a means of recalling/storing/editing groups of file paths on the host computer’s hard drive.  The typical user often collects massive amounts of audio files that may be located on different parts of the hard drive.  The playlist window allows the user to group these files as well as their paths and store them to an indexed text document, which will be later recalled in the main window or recalled in the playlist window for editing.  For an example, Joe has five audio files he wishes to be a part of his café meso timescale sounds (patrons walking to the tables, mobile phones ringing, etc), however these files are located on specific parts of the hard drive.  Joe is able to group these sound files and save their appropriate paths that are relevant to the file nametag he wishes (i.e. ‘misccafesounds’).

Basic Features

• Drag and drop file (WAVE and AIFF formats only): for easy accumulation of audio files 
  
• Waveform display:  view the waveform of the audio file
  
• Auditioning:  listen to the audio file within the playlist
  
• Audio On/Off:  the toggling on/off of Max/MSP’s Digital to Analog Converter
  

Editing Features

• Delete:  deletion of the current file from the playlist
  
• Clear:  clear all files from the playlist
  

Storage Features

• Store:  save current playlist
  
• Read:  load saved playlist
  

Notes:

The primary weekly objective, completion the playlist window, has been successful.  Next week will be the starting point for the engineering of the main window.