Re: [Lmuse-user] Muse files with audio data

[Robert J. <rj...@sp...>]

Hi,

On Monday 28 August 2006 15:21, Werner Schweer wrote:
> On Sunday 27 August 2006 07:09, Mr. KP wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > This is something I've been meaning to ask but it hasn't been a problem
> > (I think) until now.
> >
> > Apparently, MusE saves audio data in files named rec*.wav.  In doing some
> > work with Muse last week, I think I **might** have lost a track of data
> > because one of those rec files was got used by another MusE project I was
> > working on.
> >
> > I'm not saying that this is absolutely the case- I did lost a track but I
> > honestly can't say if it was something I did or a MusE error- what I have
> > in the file now is track duplicated instead of what should be there.  As
> > an example, I have 4 tracks of audio data- track 2 is a duplicate of
> > track 1 now.
> >
> > It begs a point of clarification- do MusE "projects" (i.e. the sequencer
> > file and the rec files) need to be in their own directory to prevent
> > accidental file ovewriting?  If so, that is not intuitive- though, I'll
> > be the first to admit I have looked at the manual/wiki in some time so if
> > this is an RTFM thing, please let me know.  However, this could be
> > addressed by have Muse create a project folder automatically.  At a
> > minimum, an audio folder with the same name as the med file should be
> > created so keep things are kept nice and tidy.  I think is similar to how
> > Audacity manages its "projects".
> >
> > In any event please let me know if I'm off base here.  I just noticed
> > that my studio directories are becoming littered with these rec files
> > which I know are linked to tracks in the med files.  Putting aside the
> > possible data loss, it seems to me there's a better way to handle/manage
> > audio data in med files.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Your points are valid and the problem is addressed in the currend
> subversion head of MusE. The next major MusE version works with "projects".
> Every project is represented by a directory which contains all project data
> and which is created automatically.
>
> In then current MusE version you should be able to organize your data the
> same way but you have to do it by hand.

It is true that 0.8 has problems to keep track of projects, Werner has done a 
super job of structuring this in 1.0. 
But I think it is important to add that MusE 0.8 does _never_ overwrite and 
audio file. If it disappeared there must have been some user intervention.

... unless there's a bug or I have misunderstood the code ;-)

/Robert

>
> Werner
>
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