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Wahjam online music collaboration
http://wahjam.org/
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add [solo] button for channels #125

Open alekibango opened 10 years ago

alekibango commented 10 years ago

Sometimes, its hard to identify who plays what, or who is source of noise.

So i propose to add solo button to all channels (or users too?). It should be placed near the [mute] button.

[solo] [mute] --> If solo is pressed, all other channels (which are not in solo mode) should be quiet.

stefanha commented 10 years ago

The solo button is a standard Digital Audio Workstation approach for quickly hearing just one track.

I don't want to add it to wahjam though because many users have little background in computer audio. Keeping the interface as simple and uncluttered as possible is important.

The solo button is just a shortcut for muting all the other users, which can already be done with the checkboxes.

For this reason I do not expect to add a solo button in the foreseeable future.

alekibango commented 9 years ago

I think solo is not that hard concept to understand :)
Could even work by change mute state of other players, not having its own 'state'.

But if we will have better visualization (#126), maybe the solo button will not be needed.