[Answered] Any way to import more than one audio file at a time?

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select all tracks you want to import. Hit OK.

It should be as simple as File->Import->select multiple files->Open

I use File > Import > group select the waves in the Windows browser (Shift Click) and click OK or whatever the dialog button is. Sometimes you have to drag it to the start due to the Import at Original Time Stamp but that can be disabled in Preferences.
 
One time though I was importing an entire album worth of waves and they were all sorted by instrument so basically I had Kick (song 1), Kick (song 2), etc... Snare (song 1), Snare (song 2), etc through about a instruments over about 25 songs. I basically had to comb through it all one song/instrument at a time using Ctrl + Click in the windows dialog to get them to import the way I wanted. If I just imported them all at once each song got a new track for each instrument. I wanted each instrument to have one track and then each song had a clip on that track. By using Ctrl + Click to select all the waves for one song at a time I managed to get it to work. It was a real pain to figure out (and do) though especially considering some of the songs didn't incorporate all of the instruments. It did however work in the end.

joel77
That works if you're importing into a new blank project. If you're importing into an existing template you still have to import(drag) one file at a time.
 
....... unless someone knows another way?
 
I love setting up and using templates, so that's what I normally do for both recording and mixing projects.

You mean you want the waves to go into the tracks you've already set up? Yeah, not sure if there is a way around that...
 
Actually I just checked and there is an option to import directly to tracks. Select the Track(s) > Right Click > Import Audio. Now I'm not sure if there is a way to point the waves to the right tracks (I didn't want to start importing a bunch of crap into my project) but it's something look into. Cheers.

Yeah I didn't look too closely but I didn't see an immediately apparent way to choose which files when where on multi-selected tracks. Still even if it has to be done for each track one at a time I kind of prefer that over the drag and drop import. That just kind of skeeves me out for some reason. I'll probably be doing this type of thing in the next few weeks so if I remember I'll post anything I find.

The same process can work for already created tracks when you select the track number for the first file to go to. The files will import in the order listed by the folder i.e. Name, Date Modified, Size. To get all the files to line up with the templates already in the project you may need to name them appropriately so they are order in the same way as the project when viewing them in the folder. 
 

Lance Riley [Cakewalk]
The same process can work for already created tracks when you select the track number for the first file to go to. The files will import in the order listed by the folder i.e. Name, Date Modified, Size. To get all the files to line up with the templates already in the project you may need to name them appropriately so they are order in the same way as the project when viewing them in the folder. 
 

Huwhaaaa...? I'll have to poke around at this. Sounds very useful but I don't quite understand it without trying it out. Thanks.

I just highlight them all in the media window of the browser and rt click... insert at now time (be sure to put the now time at the 0 point... that's how I dump the recorded tracks from my Zoom recorder... and since I setup the tracks the same way, I use a template with all instruments eq'd and fx'd before import.