bapu
You get Jerome to play bass on your tracks?
 
Now, I'm jealous.

Well, old Jerm is a good friend, but he's not too bright.
The last time the train almost got him .. good thing he wasn't born a drummer!
 

This thread really should be moved (say to NON Cakewalks software forum!!): admins must like this guy

joden
This thread really should be moved (say to NON Cakewalks software forum!!): admins must like this guy

Perhaps, but it is related to Sonar, created for use with Sonar, and works with nothing else but Sonar, unless I'm mistaken.
Either way I think it qualifies to be somewhere for Sonar users .. it is a simple, non-obtrusive, fast, helpful stand alone tool, that enhances my Sonar workflow actually.
But I agree if there's a better place for it.
 
As a daily Sonar user, I myself like this little utility, and I appreciate the work this guy did.
 
Not to sound sarcastic, apologies joden.
 

joden
This thread really should be moved (say to NON Cakewalks software forum!!): admins must like this guy

Why not leave it to the moderators and hosts to worry about it. That's one of the functions of their role.

czyky
Note on the file scanning. It supports the "standard" filename wildcards, so if you want all the Sonar files that begin with, say, Album 1, then use Album 1*. If you want all the project files that have Album 1 somewhere in the file name, then use *Album 1*

Hi czyky

FYI - Tried this with latest and greatest I confirm I didn't get it to work. Using file version 1.1.5.5, size is 1,342,464 bytes.
 
Thanks..
 

Excellent utility! Thank you for the effort with this. The audio preview is a nice touch, especially since it is dynamic enough to realize I handn't turned on my A/I without crashing... just went through the Realtek
 
I have a habit of creating multiple projects in the same folder, so can get lost with which "original" project folder they were in. If possible, the ability to keyword search the project name would also be useful (especially for folks who never labeled tracks properly in years past ).
 
When I saw the Project Info pop up in this utility, it reminded me of this feature request. There are 4 text field types within a cwp (I believe), and not sure how difficult it is to consolidate them all into one text field. It seems you already have a start on this portion, and would help folks trying to get a "bird's eye" view of all the user text inside a cwp.
 
Neither of the above are "crucial" by any means, and the utility is incredibly useful as is.

It's utilities like this I was thinking about when I went on several rants about wanting better asset mgmt tools way back, and it was generally suggested that it wasn't worth it and instead people wanted more "whiz bang" features (not an actual quote). I think this shows that, actually, power users want better tools.
 

czyky
... I have started another standard procedure on each of my projects:

1. bounce a minute or so of the project to a new track,
2. name the track "preview" (this causes the audio clip to get a "preview" name as well)
3. then archive and hide the track. (I don't need to see the track generally, I only want it to generate a preview audio file.)

The bounced track's corresponding audio file shows up in the ProjectScope display when I peek at that project and I can audition what is in the project post haste (that's French for toot suite). On older projects, without the preview audio, I can make use of all those archived/frozen soft-synth tracks and audition those wav files to get an idea of the project anyway.
 
Auditioning a few seconds of the audio files is way faster than loading a project completely to hear what is in it, only to find it's not the droid, er, project that I was looking for.

This. Brilliant idea! Such a pragmatic approach to quickly finding or remembering an old project by its sound rather than file name.

Something that I'd love to see built into the Sonar product is a landing page that lists your recent projects and "pinned projects". Your idea of an audio preview on that landing page would be a great timesaver!

Cakewalk, if you're reading, then please do this!

Can Project Scope cope with the backup files (of the form <name>.cwp.~<timestamp> in a "nice" way?

A few minor issues or recommendations for the list view in the bottom LEFT pane:
 
- sorting by file size should be performed by numerical value rather than character 
  (i.e. it should sort these numbers: 1, 9, 20, 180, 905, 2100 rather than 1, 180, 20, 2100, 9, 905)
 
- sorting by date should be chronological date rather than by name of the month 
  (similar issue to the one above)
 
- it would be nice to have a "file name" column (without the path) so that you can easily see that information when the path is very long;  it would also allow you to sort by filename regardless of the path it is in.
 
Overall you've done a great job and this is a great tool to have.  I'd love to see more of this type of file admin in a future release of Sonar, but either way I hope you carry on with this endeavour.