SS - Yet Another Missed Opportunity....

[JustAnUnCoolCat]

Call me crazy, maybe i expect a little too much from a piece of user orientated music management software like SS, but here goes..

This morning, i was preparing a batch of audio to go with an audio topic i was preparing for this forum (and MDCF ... not that my ideas go down well there...). The immediate and maybe previously unrealised issue comes with SS's lovely native bloody lossless compression encoding.. or rather the handling of.

*feels the urge to introduce sharpened virtual claws to people at Sony....*

Not a huge demand i was making of SS, in fact it was something MD users are used to being able to .. aka combine/split audio, and with SS, this can be done within files in the library (which is what i was intending).

I merely wished to make a batch of ATRAC Lossless encodings from WAV's i had already processed elsewhere (44Khz 16-bit final mix downs, nowt unusual in terms of format etc) - this bit goes well.

Now all i wanted to do was simply combine groups of encodings, encoded by now to ATRAC Lossless, and do some fine tuning to where the transitions between tracks lay - so it was going to be a case of combine and divide.

No hassles, in the past, doing this with ATRAC (handy, actually, when editing out bits that were unwanted out of radio log recordings etc) in the lossy variety.

But can it be done with the LSL variety...??

Like hell can it...

Oh well, guess i'll have to manually go through all them WAV's, join em into some massive ferking huge files and resplit/edit according to needs using something far more overkill for what was a simple task that a bit of foresight on the part of the designers could have solved (yes, i cannot be the only person out there who might like to be able to do simple combine/divide functions on ATRAC LSL's... now that SS has a bloody native supported archival grade format...).

What really p*ssed me off about this was, the sheer lack of foresight shown at the design stage and mostly that a simple job is gonna become long winded and all the massive list of files i had already encoded.. goes to scrap. We all know that SS is not a fast encoding util by any means (dark ages of encoding speed, it more resembles), but after waiting for a few thousand wavs ranging from running times of around 2 mins to 2 hours a piece to encode to ATRAC LSL, to then discover the bit i wanted to do to save employing yet another app, is not possible when it could so easily have been the case..

And between that oversight.. lack of foresight.. call it what you will, and Sony regularly dumping crap like the old CP soft on the world, is it any wonder we get a whole lot of anti-SS/anti-Sony crap hitting the forums..??

I like, outside of this 'problem', SS as it's finally got to after way way too much time - but there are times i wonder how much research people at Sony ever do before they decide to implement eye candy type functions and forget that there is lots of scope for more useful edit implementations with the native bloody lossless codec handling.

Hey, sorry about the rant... to all you ATRACLIFE folks, just totally ferking p*ssed off after wasting god knows how long to have to start stages 2 - 4 of the processing and editing all over again.

'Tom Kat'

*sighs, opens up a bottle of Old Satan's Special reserve.., and looks for an iP*d owner to go harass* ;o)