TheMaartian

Brian Walton

Anderton

Mosvalve
I thought Sonar was able to see JPEG's now for icons. I could have sworn this was a new feature in one of the past updates. I guess not.

 
SONAR used to do BMP only, but added PNG, not JPEG.

Any idea why JPG wasn't added?  Seems odd to me since it is the most used image format.   

I'm going to guess that it's because BMP and PNG support transparent backgrounds and JPG doesn't.

I'm 99% sure that's correct.

Anderton
Should have made this Friday's Tip of the Week 

Maybe you could get a "forum host" to rename and move it for ya.
 
Oh, wait....

John

Anderton

John
Is there a way to show the icons in the browser as images and not text? 

No. But if you open the Track Icon folder in the desktop so you can see the images, you can still do the drag and drop into track thang.

I would really love if the Browser did show images. The drag and drop is a handy thing to have too. Good tip indeed. 

Altho I agree the icon file names aren't much good for describing what they picture, having images in the browser would be rather awkward imo.
 
1st, they'd have to create a whole 'nother set of icons for it (thumbnails, etc.).
2nd, they'd be way too small to see.
3rd, they would require more CPU load to display when running Sonar.
 
Improvements to the world of track icons would be:
1. Chang the format from BMP to PNG.
2. Have only 1 (one) icon folder for Sonar instead of one for each version of Sonar.
 
This would free up disk space and reduce CPU load when running Sonar.

Like JohnnyV, I was thinking about this being very handy for opening older projects, that I have yet to finish writing/
arranging, or am rewriting, that would have guitars/basses/keys/baritones/mandos/steels/etc, that I no longer own or have upgraded.
    I suppose I really should start using the notes option and keep track there (in the bundles/folder)instead of my notebooks. It's more organized and clear.
Michael

pentimentosound
Like JohnnyV, I was thinking about this being very handy for opening older projects, that I have yet to finish writing/
arranging, or am rewriting, that would have guitars/basses/keys/baritones/mandos/steels/etc, that I no longer own or have upgraded.
    I suppose I really should start using the notes option and keep track there (in the bundles/folder)instead of my notebooks. It's more organized and clear.
 

Check out Friday's Tip of the Week for Week 66, it's all about the multiple ways to document projects.

Thanks Craig. I ought to review the list of things you've covered already in that thread/list, regularly! LOL
Michael

I find that you should always title a track BEFORE you record it. This seems to stick in the audio folder. 
Re naming a track after it's recorded does not change the file name of the recording. 
 
So I make titles like - Bass 1 Rumble DI-    which tells me how I recorded the bass. 
Vox -AT- JM -    tells me I used my AT 2020 and Joe Meek pre amp. So a picture of the singer would help shorten the title. 

I do that kind of coded naming, too. The icons seem to make finding "which track" in a pile of them, faster.

This is an excellent tip Craig.
I tell you, you have some of the bet Tips that are out there, keep them coming!

 
 
Cool tip.
 
I use my own icons, colour coded the same as the tracks to help my poor low-contrast eyesight: