I still think that the new start screen would be some much more useful if it had an mp3 preview that can be played of the projects in the screen.
When a project gets saved, a 5 second clip of the project can be saved along with it and that clip can be previewed in the new start screen.
Yes, I put in that request with CW and in the request forum but don't think it went anywhere.

gustabo
I still think that the new start screen would be some much more useful if it had an mp3 preview that can be played of the projects in the screen.
When a project gets saved, a 5 second clip of the project can be saved along with it and that clip can be previewed in the new start screen.
Yes, I put in that request with CW and in the request forum but don't think it went anywhere.

Nice idea as an option, however this will increase save times, so Cakewalk would have to be extremely clever on how and when the preview gets made, you don't wan't it to happen everytime autosave kicks in for instance, and you would want it to run as a separate process. Also I would prefer a FLAC preview myself (not mp3), 10 seconds of FLAC will not take up much disk space at all, it will sound better, quicker to make, and there won't be any licensing issues.

Could just do similar to AD2 and buffer/save the main outs. If audio is passing through main outs, it can also be printed to disk.

As with any change of this sort, on/off functionality must exist for those with resource-challenged machines.

Yeah.... I'm not sure a short preview would help me much.   A slow intro of any kind could bypass that five seconds (or more), not to mention any empty bars at the beginning.  I guess there'd have to be some way of determining what portion to preview.
 
And back on topic - good to see that performance is being addressed in the next update.  I've been in the 2 second range from the start so it'd be nice to see others have the same experience.