Received shipping confirmation on 15th July but after 4 weeks... still not here and getting a little worried. I love bandcamp but I really hate how there's never any tracking for packages so you have no idea if it's actually been lost or not!
I posted this on the Audacity forums but thought some people here might have a use for it as well.
I’m part of a small team that use Audacity to edit the audio of an old TV show. I realised pretty quickly that I need to test the sync and that meant exporting the audio, muxing it to the video and watching it… a tedious process so I put together a Mac app that use mod-script-pipe - you load a video to the app, load the audio to Audacity and press sync and from then on when you use a keyboard shortcut it will play the audio and video in sync, wherever you select on your Audacity timeline. We’ve been using this tool for a month and it’s become a big timesaver and works really well compensating for any drift and keeping things nicely in sync. It assume the video and audio are the same length and you need to keep them in sync. It doesn't adjust to cutting sections of audio out and moving them around.
I’m not a professional developer by any stretch and had to use Codex to help get it over the line but the more I use it, the more I think that other people out there might want it.
I made a Github repo for it with a dmg available in the release section. I think it needs Tahoe to work but maybe it'll work in previous macOS versions, I can't test that. Be cool if anyone wants to try it and let me know what they think of it.
Link to it in action: https://youtu.be/pfJj1kt7_Ro
When it starts and stops is me pressing the hot key combo ctrl+opt+space - I then move the start position in Audacity and go again and the video shows from the new point in the timeline.
Is there a way to send a feature request to the Audacity team for something similar or I can send them the app and see if it’s something they’d like to offer to people? Since I don’t have an Apple developer account and am no expert, remember there may be security risks involved with unsigned apps from a random guy on the internet but the source code should all be uploaded if anyone wants to check and let me know what they think. It’s something I find really valuable so wanted to share it.
Thanks
I (UK) bought $200 record from a Japanese seller on 23rd April. After 5 days I asked if they had shipped the item, the next day I asked if they could respond and clicked the seller not responding button, two days after that I gave up. I had no updates or replies or any acknowledgement at all so I presumed the seller either wasn’t checking their Discogs anymore or something had happened to them.
I opened a case with PayPal, upload images on our (non) conversation and to my surprise I was refunded instantly. I left a lengthy message explaining my disappointment to the seller about their lack of communication but no hard feelings. I had my refund and they should consider this cancelled. I then looked for another copy and found one so purchased that. Job done except guess what happened a few days later… yep, the record arrived. Still no response from the seller.
I didn’t really know how to deal with this so decided that the seller will surely get in touch when they realise what’s going on and I’ll just leave the record in their box ready to ship back when they do. A few days later they send a flood of messages one after the other with different “status” updates, pretending that nothing has happened and asking me to close a PayPal case that was closed instantly in my favour. No acknowledgment of the actual problem at hand.
I sent a very honest and to the point message about the situation just now but I’m concerned. Sending all those messages and pretending nothing out of the ordinary has happened feels duplicitous to me and obviously I don’t really want to have to spend nearly $200 again for a record I bought elsewhere in the meantime. Trust has been broken for me. I thought I’d get a message apologising and asking for it to be returned. Instead they’re burying their head in the sand.
I don’t want to rip anyone off but I don’t want to get ripped off myself either. It’s a lot of money to me that I can’t afford to spend twice. If I send it back, worst case scenario if that PayPal reverses my refund and I’m out $200. It’s not a great situation.
What’s the best way to deal with this? PayPal says it’s closed the case but I’m sure they can reopen it if they want and originally it said May 11th until the dispute would be final even though I got my money back already.
What’s the solution here and how would you deal with this?
All advice welcome. Thanks for reading.
EDIT: their feedback shows this is not an uncommon occurrence at all. Dang, I really need to check people’s feedback beyond the number more closely in the future.