[Ardour-Users] behavior of importing stereo files

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:54 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> hi list,
> i am realizing a very strange behavior while importing stereo files into 
> session, and as paul mentioned, i ll report this here, not being aware 
> if someone else is realizing that.
> 
> if i go 'menu-session-add existing audio' and choose some stereo file in 
> the browser, the file will not be imported as a stereo, but as two times 
> mono (l+r).
> if i import into existing stereo track, the stereo file will be imported 
> as mono, and the both channels will be layered underneath of each other, 
> although the track still has two in's/out's.
> or if i try to import 'into new track' ardour will import the stereo 
> track into two new created mono tracks.
> 
> apologize if this is already known, i know the import dialog is a work 
> in progress.

it certainly is, but as of rev 2415, it should be working quite a bit
better.