I tried out this little app today and it seems pretty slick.
Then, I opened my home folder and found a folder named AudioLeak inside. Why do developers seem to overlook Apple developer frameworks for file storage? Why not put the folder inside Library while you're at it? Or the root of the HD?
Ugh.
AudioLeak
Leq (Long-Term Equivalent Level) audio analyzer.
Version: 3.1
Non-Mac like file storage - channel D tech
And creating a subfolder for analysis results (inside the user's home folder) is a problem because...? (you didn't say why, nor offer an opinion of the "correct" application behavior, so I'm sorry to say that your comment wasn't as helpful to the developer as it could have been...)We don't believe that putting the application's analysis results in a new subfolder located in the user 's home folder is as big of a problem or annoyance as you seem to make it out to be. For example, Zinio, the major on-line downloadable magazine subscription service, also creates a folder that is placed in the user 's home folder, where downloaded magazines are stored (and incidentally, the location of that folder is, in fact, determined by the application by using Apple's application frameworks for file storage; there is no other way).
That said, noticing that most Mac applications tend to create their subfolders in the user's Documents folder, we have updated AudioLeak (3.1) accordingly to do so, as well.
In the future, please avail yourself of our technical support if you have an issue with one of our products, and are sincere about using them. We pride ourselves on having customer support that is as responsive as humanly possible (our customers know this).
Sincerely,
Rob Robinson
Channel D Support
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Thursday, May 21 2009 @ 11:03 AM PDT