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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen  wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:03:28PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Fons Adriaensen  wrote:

>>

>> > But there is one strange thing. There are 75 CD sectors per

>> > second (Ardour calls them frames). But in the location dialog,

>> > times are shown in a format that divides a second in 30 units

>> > (probably time code frames, FPS is set to 30, no drop).

>>

>> timecode frames.

>>

>> > Why is that ? If track start and end times must correspond to

>> > CD sectors, that means that the times shown in that dialog are

>>

>> "CD frames (sectors)" are not available as a clock mode at this time.

>>

>> there is only type of clock object in Ardour's GUI, so the limitations

>>  of one apply to all (and vice versa).

>

> But that seems to be a display limitation only. As far as I can see,

> computation of the track lenght correctly rounds to multiples of

> 1/75 before taking the difference and then displaying it using

> timecode frames. So the 'clock object' seems to do its internals

> to full precision anyway. That is what makes me wonder why it

> doesn't display in the same way.

the clock is showing a precise location for a marker.
because the marker is noted as a  CD marker, it will be rounded to CD

frames when appropriate, which currently does not include display

time.

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