Sampling Rate of Recorded Audio -- Simplified

It would be immensely helpful to have the ability to easily change the bit depth and sampling rate of audio already recorded in a project.  Currently, I believe the only way to do this is to export each track individually as the desired bit rate and sample rate, then import each of those files, track-by-track into a new project set to the desired format.  This seems like a needlessly difficult procedure for what should be a very simple one.

But see... that's the point.  One shouldn't need to essentially "trick" Sonar into changing the project's sampling rate.  The fact that you have to use a third-party utility and dig into the audio folder for the project just speaks to a hole in the feature set.  This should be transparent -- the user shouldn't have to worry about HOW it is done, or resort to outside applications to make it happen.  As someone else said about another feature, "it should just work."
 
BTW, thank you for those links... very helpful.

Karyn,
 
I think it underestimates the user base to say it's a good thing to leave features out of the product. Clearly, there is a valid use case. You record 100 tracks at 96 and start having trouble bouncing due to IO constraints. You just want to copy the whole thing and flip it to 44.1 and keep working. There could be a solution from within Sonar for this.
 
Now, from my perspective, since I rarely need this and can easily do it myself (rarely is an understatement), I don't really want our precious developers working on this. But, that said, if I could have the moon, why not? It could be added to the 'some day when we're really really bored' list of features that might be nice.
 
Respect.