-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:53, Paul Davis wrote: > > drag in compressed files and instantly use them without waiting for > > them to be uncompressed to wav or fiddling with a cmdline to do this > > beforehand. > > using either nautilus or konqueror, you can drag-n-drop any non- > compressed file into ardour, in a variety of ways. ardour does not > support drag-n-drop of compressed files for 2 reasons: > > a) no appropriate API for reading such files (about to > change as soon as libsndfile offers support for ogg) > b) Ardour is intended to be used for music production in which > quality *matters*. Compressed audio is a temporary > manifestation of a temporary issue: lack of bandwidth > and/or storage space. No serious audio professional > makes music by pasting mp3 samples into their work, > and neither should you. I'd like to have an easy way to import, say, a snippet of a rehearsal recording into ardour, to show it to the musician in context of what has already been recorded. Having the ability to drag-and-drop import mp3 samples could really speed up my workflow. I work with low quality recordings all the time and then rework things - that's just my favourite way of doing stuff. But this is composition and arrangement, not recording actually. Maybe I shouldn't, but I feel like I always will use low quality material in early stages of production. > Even if only because if someone > re-mp3's or ogg-encodes your work, it will sound even > more deeply horrible. You are right on the quality side. I think not to have mp3 drag-and-drop import is the right decision for most of the workflows you are designing for. If I had a few thousand euros to spend on hardware, I wouldn't try to make my point here, maybe. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6NRUd3nkEf2CMDsRAr0qAJ9rqYYtOOMhq8t3MIWkM035Txlc4gCbBSY1 ZgpTzJrcExIrSolpTTIKZyM= =+jyy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
