{"id":5042,"date":"2012-06-09T03:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2012-06-09T03:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T07:21:02","slug":"please-stand-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"Please Stand By"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daffy also discovers what happens when he encounters Scott.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Well, the plan was to launch the new media site Friday, and things were almost done\u2026 and then along comes something called Scott Studios, but I\u2019m getting a bit ahead of things in this cautionary tale of a simple case of erroneous selection that destroyed considerable work.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been using Sound Forge for years \u2013 like way back to version 4.0, when it was part of Sonic Foundry \u2013 and within the more recent version 9 are more selections for saving audio in different formats. Of course, if you\u2019re editing a raw file to create a master, it\u2019s smart to stick to the old wav format, which I did\u2026 albeit with a sense something wasn\u2019t quite right: each time I saved a file, regardless of whatever folder, it was saved under the name SP0000.wav.<\/p>\n

I initially figured it had something to do with propriety info within the MP3 container of the original audio file as recorded on a Sony digital recorder. Not so: within SF 9 there are two wav formats you can choose \u2013 standard Microsoft, and some \u2018thing\u2019 called Scott Studios Wave.<\/p>\n

SSW is reportedly used for radio production because it allows for more meta data logged in a separate file, but its design and limitations are baffling: even though you can assign it a name, it only saves under the default name, SP0000.wav. It disallows the creation of a second \u2018backup\u2019 file within a singular folder. Ergo: whatever changes you make are always saved to the same file, with no built-in undo factor, and no second, differently named file in the same folder.<\/p>\n

In the Save and Save As menu, the SSW file option comes before the MS wav format in SF\u2019s list of available audio formats in which you can save an audio project, so apparently what happened is at some point I erred and mis-selected SSW in place of good old MS wav.<\/p>\n

In trying to understand why I couldn\u2019t rename a recently completed, perfectly edited Q&A with a TIFF curator, I chose to create a test file: I recorded 2 seconds of sound, and saved it under a different name in the same folder to check how it would name the file, since the SP-prefix is assigned after it\u2019s been saved, with you, the user, not given any option to alter the nomenclature or numeric suffix.<\/p>\n

What happened? 12 minutes of perfectly cut audio was replaced with 2 seconds of test material. SSW doesn\u2019t create any temp or TMP files because the overwriting of new data is TOTAL. Nothing is saved in a temp folder; nothing can be recovered using even ERD Commander 2000.<\/p>\n

Basically, you\u2019re fucked<\/em>, which brings me to the big question: Why the hell would someone invent a destructive file format with a suicidal ability to nuke itself with no safely measures for the user?<\/p>\n

Maybe the alphanumerical file name has a function within production & broadcasting\u2026 but then why can\u2019t you create a different number? Why would you want each folder to be populated by SP0000 files?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got reviews to edit & post this weekend, so the new site\u2019s formal debut, with two informative Q&As, will unfortunately have to wait until Monday\u2026 because of Scott, who may be a nice guy who meant well in making things easier for radio play, but in light of wasting my time and mandating a total re-edit & remixing of the affected time, I\u2019d like to say Fuck You<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yes, this is a rude little rant, and it could\u2019ve been worse. But seriously: why create a proprietary format that will always write onto itself, delete all prior changes, delete all markers for edit points, and disallow the Save As option?<\/p>\n

What moron disallows<\/em> the Save As option?<\/p>\n

Tell Porky Pig to duck, and cue the Dodo song for Scott<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Eeesh…<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To paraphrase Daffy Duck in “Drip-Along Daffy,” ‘Slight plause while I adjust some digital accoutrments,’ as the new website’s formal debut’s been bumped to Monday because of someone named Scott. Never head of him? If you use Sound Forge, you should, because he’s a wanker, and he will waste your time, as detailed in this indulgent Editor’s Blog that’s part cautionary anecdote, and rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1353,1354,1355],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1jk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}