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#1 2012-08-19 05:52:11
Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
I just thought, since the 'Pop' sound is in the stage upon opening Scratch, a lot of users who only make very simple projects, may not remove it or even know it's there. I know it's a small file size, but since about 1400 projects are uploaded every day, and most of them won't remove that sound, that mounts up to a lot of server space.
What do you think?
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#4 2012-08-19 06:10:46
- jji7skyline
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Re: Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
I remove it most of the time, and so would anyone other experienced scratcher who needed more file space, but the pop and meow sounds are good for new scratchers to see what the sound blocks are used for 
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#5 2012-08-19 06:14:40
Re: Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
jji7skyline wrote:
I remove it most of the time, and so would anyone other experienced scratcher who needed more file space, but the pop and meow sounds are good for new scratchers to see what the sound blocks are used for
That's why we should keep the meow sound. (Also it's in the default sprite, which Scratchers are more likely to delete)
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#7 2012-08-19 09:17:47
- Molybdenum
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Re: Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
I kept the meow sound on some occasions though (I fail), until a few days ago in which I found that it saves ~47KB of memory.
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#8 2012-08-19 10:48:34
Re: Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
I think when you load a new project it should be entirely blank. Its just a hassle to delete all that. I know its probably to support new users, but there should at least be an option to turn it off.
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#9 2012-08-19 13:33:26
Re: Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
Maybe just the scratch cat should be there, with meow.
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#11 2012-08-20 14:56:59
- Molybdenum
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Re: Remove 'pop' sound from Stage upon starting Scratch
Or, you can simply not upload any unused sounds? Maybe with a setting for it, defaulted to "no upload"?
Last edited by Molybdenum (2012-08-20 14:57:32)
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