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Bug 413285 - Feature request: ability to give CD size in MB, not minutes
Feature request: ability to give CD size in MB, not minutes
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: serpentine
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
0.7
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Serpentine Maint
Serpentine Maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-01 00:33 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2009-04-12 15:18 UTC
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Description Sam Morris 2007-03-01 00:33:23 UTC 
[ forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397484 ]

"It would be nice if it were possible to specify the CD size in
terms of MB, optionally, instead of minutes. Some CD blanks are
labelled only with MB, e.g. 700MB, but don't also say 80 minutes.

To avoid the user having to look it up, serpentine might accept
either input."

Other information:
Comment 1 Tiago Cogumbreiro 2007-07-31 23:10:05 UTC 
Music files are usually measured in seconds, not bytes. The whole interface is oriented towards time, not storage.

However, if someone wants to implement this I will accept the patch and add a GConf option for this different behaviour.
Comment 2 Tiago Cogumbreiro 2007-08-21 13:48:47 UTC 
This is misleading, since the size of an MP3 file does not match the file of a CD, thus the user cannot tell how much is missing by the size.
Comment 3 Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore 2009-04-12 15:18:34 UTC 
Tiago,

I think the purpose of this bug report was to match the labels of the blank CDs users buy, which can read "700MB" and not "80 minutes", thus leaving the user without knowing which option to pick.

Perhaps the interface doesn't even need to be changed to accept different types of input. Why just not make the options have both measures, changing e.g. "80 minutes" to "80 minutes / 700MB"?

Just a suggestion - what do you think?