[ardour-dev] VFAT file handling

[Mark Knecht]

Humm...OK. I guess I read that response and didn't understand that was
what he was doing. just blind like usual.

Thanks,
Mark


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:14:46 -0800 (PST), Len <lenb_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Paul, et. all,
> >    I was just looking at old conversations and saw no reply to the
> > info I had provided about VFAT (I guess..) file names under Pro Tools
> > and the use of the '?' symbol under Ardour.
> >
> >    Did anything happen with this issue/feature? Might it in the future
> > is not now?
> >
> >    Again, the Pro Tools mechanism for handling this was:
> >
> > name.L.wav
> > name.R.wav
> >
> >    I had wondered (but not communicated) about extending this to
> > larger channel counts using something like:
> >
> > name.3A.wav
> > name.3B.wav
> > name.3C.wav
> >
> > or
> >
> > name.5A.wav
> > name.5B.wav
> > ..
> > name.5E.wav
> >
> > with the idea that you'd know how many channels were expected, and
> > you'd know the order of the channels even though they are strored as
> > separate mono wave files.
> >
> >    Anyway, just following up.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
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> 
> I recall Paul saying that, instead of '?', he was going to use '%'.  Like so:
> 
> >>I guess I'm not clear why this has to be a problem. Why does Ardour
> >>need to put this character in file names? What's the purpose?
> 
> >mark, i am suprised - you more than anyone should know this, since it
> >was your observations that led to it being added. its there to provide
> >a clear separator between the filename per se and the "L" and "R"
> >identifiers that ardour adds when importing the file or creating new
> >capture files. if someone names their mono track FILL, we get FILL.wav
> >which could potentially be confused with FILL.wav, the sister of
> >FILR.wav. So we add a character.
> 
> >I'll switch to % ...
> 
> >--p
> 
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