Just a quick shout for any users of Podium as a demo (and of course as before, any other current users of the full unlimited version), feel free to share your views on what you might like to see in Podium 2.0…key feature, must have, possible host switching combo of features for demo users ??? 🙂
One of my new key FR’s for v.2
I think after a few recent bouts of issues with Podium 1.98 I think I would have to include versioning and auto backups without a doubt as one of the three key features I would like to see in v.2.
If I save my work in Podium and it crashes at some point afterwards, Podium will not actually save that project and all changes are totally lost. Very frustrating indeed. I need to be able to trust Podium to restore the last saved state of my project once it has been restarted.
The only way I know to get around this issue is to close Podium at some point during my workflow and then restart it. Then it appears to save all my changes properly. Of course that is not the way to work in any host creatively and clearly is far from any kind of useful workflow. I would have to close and restart Podium several times to during the day to avoid losing work. That is not a realistic option.
But if a crash occurs while using Podium all changes are lost. That is my experience with 1.98.
Other hosts like ACID Pro and Sonar will attempt to re load the project and recover any work done once the host is restarted, if there is a crash, I think Ableton Live does this as well.
Really useful feature. Logic and Sonar both have a versioning feature that allows for snapshots of a project if you will, to be taken at certain intervals.
You can choose how many you want in Logic for instance 2, 4, e.t.c.
Something like Bioencoders idea here but Podium would need to be able to recall the last saved state before a crash (once it has been restarted) for it to really be effective.
rinxai had a similar idea here.
@ frits.
I think you said something about modifying the cache file format to facilitate Crash recovery at some point. I think it really is a necessity to have some kind of back up / versioning function in Podium especially as of v.2
My key 3 Fr’s are…
1.Plugin handling
2.Crash recovery
3.Auto saving imported audio files to the project folder.
Or at least a prompt asking a user to choose if they should copy an imported file to the project folder or not.
I like Tracktions approach here…something along these lines in Podium would be extremely helpful. One could simply use the list view to browse for files and not have to worry about forgetting to save every imported file into the project directory (to avoid missing files if the project location is moved).
4. I would add a simple collection of global SMR buttons as well.
Cheers! 🙂
