Re: [Audacity-devel] RFE: Audacity project file concept

[Dave F. <dav...@co...>]

Otto Wyss wrote:

>>>Instead of a separate folder all the files are stored within an archive.
>>>This archive could be a simple tar archive or similar.
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>>The main problem with this is the overhead of the archival and
>>dearchival processes.  As it is, Audacity projects open and save almost
>>instantly.  The series of steps is:
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>Well isn't there any archiving solution which allows to read and write
>archive parts on the fly? IMO a mutli stream file format should be
>sufficient. Something similar to the resources handling in MacOS? Does
>anyone know how MacOSX handles packages?
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Um, isn't this why libflac was added?  Was it added just as an 
export/import thing, or does it actually work with the small sound files 
in the project directory?

Dave

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