[Ardour-Users] join songs with links to files

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Atte Andre Jensen<atte.jensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
>
>> IIRC think Ardour uses hardlinks for this here. Maybe you need symlinks
>> instead.
>
> That helped a bit, now ardour uses the actual recording even when its
> updated in "the other software".
>
> However two problems remain (that might share the solution):
>
> 1) Ardour still uses the original length of the file. So if the file gets
> longer in "the other software" it's truncated where the older, shorter file
> would end.
>
> 2) The graphical display of the waveform is not updated to reflect the new
> audio.

Ardour has no capability to handle this idea. It doesn't ever change
its source files, and it assumes that nobody else does either.