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  • Saving files in the Sonar Grid??? (p.2)
2015/07/03 03:11:41
mudgel
Cakewalk have already discussed a new opening page with more information about projects etc. it's already in development. It's mentioned in the latest eZine. There's one published with every new release.
2015/07/04 13:39:13
dappa1
Mike V it would be really good cos I have so many projects that I can't keep track of them all so once I make a folder and put each one in even when it goes to my open file in Sonar It only allows me to see six seven projects at a time when I open up a new project I lose the seventh one and have to go and try and find it again.
 
If there was a grid this wouldn't happen I would just go to the header drop down a list in the grid and I'm right there with my songs or particular song that I need. I hate wading through the mess!!!
2015/07/04 14:14:11
Doktor Avalanche
This should be moved to the feature requests forum.
2015/07/04 15:22:01
wst3
It is an interesting idea... something along the lines of the sounds database that NI and others have implemented in their software synthesizers I imagine?

But there is a catch... one can tag files, but I do not know if Windows supports tagging directories. So that leaves us with a couple of options, neither of which would be terribly difficult to implement... and a Sonar project consists of a project file (or many versions of the project file) and all the audio files, and in some cases some of us store presets for synths and effects in that same folder. It gets ugly pretty quickly!
 
IF windows supports something like ID3 tags for folders then tagging could be done at the project level (or so it would appear to the user) and at the folder level (as it appears to the OS), and explorer already provides the means to search and sort based on tags.
 
If windows does not support ID3 tags for folders then we'd need Cakewalk to provide a chunk in the project file format that supported ID3 tags. Then we would need an additional tool to transparently search the Cakewalk Projects folder for project files, and display the meta-data for those files. But that's really just an extension to windows explorer, and that is pretty well documented and supported.
(I  built a quick PERL script to list all my projects by date, size or name, and it worked pretty well for a hack.)
 
None of the above would interfere with the way that most of us store projects.
 
Quick note to those that are curious - wave files support ID3 tagging. I forget what  I needed to do to make it work, I think it was simply defaulting to broadcast wave files. It's handy - I can tag everything using any ID3 tagging tool!
2015/07/04 15:36:36
Keni
He current implementation works just fine for me too...

I have always loved the per-project folder system.

I find it easy enough so that I can group song folders within an album folder within a band folder...

...or any projects other than these are handled relatively the same. I always find things with no effort!

Keni
2015/07/04 15:43:16
wst3
I agree Keni - the current system works. My request (in the request forum) is a sign that I have become incredibly lazy... if paths were persistent it would save a couple steps.
2015/07/04 16:05:34
Keni
wst3
I agree Keni - the current system works. My request (in the request forum) is a sign that I have become incredibly lazy... if paths were persistent it would save a couple steps.


I can appreciate that wst3... ;-)

I find it is as persistent as I need. It always opens to my master folder where I create whatever mother folders to accomplish easy access...

I doubt I would ever need to "find all reggae" or such... But I can see that some might so I'm not against this kind of idea as long as it doesn't interfere with my very comfortable method...

Though I would rather the efforts be put into something more akin to my needs such as solving some lanes/zooming issues... ;-)

Keni
2015/07/05 11:48:35
dappa1
Its not laziness on my part I used the folders before and lost a tun of audio. So i'm hesitant to make folders and change files over to them. Some Audio I lost some files with certain plug ins won't work. So these old folders do not work for me.
2015/07/05 14:20:09
Keni
dappa1
Its not laziness on my part I used the folders before and lost a tun of audio. So i'm hesitant to make folders and change files over to them. Some Audio I lost some files with certain plug ins won't work. So these old folders do not work for me.


I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but if you use this system with its defaults, all your project audio is in its unique folder... If you do nothing to change/alter that, nothing should be lost!
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