[Ardour-Users] Painful importing WAV files withconstant crashing/segfaulting

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 February 2010 09:39:42 John Emmas wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ken Restivo" <ken at restivo.org>
>>
>> > Cool. How does Ardour know what is the max ID to start with when it opens
>> > up a session? In other words, where in the session file is the current or
>> > max ID saved? I looked, and couldn't find it.
>>
>> Ken - right at the top of the session state file there's a property called
>> "id-counter". It's next to the name and sample rate etc.  If you're
>> generating new id's you need to start with at least "id-counter"+1.
>
> And you probably should remember to increase that counter when modifying the
> session file to reflect your latest additions...

general comments: ardour3 SVN ... tools/omftool contains the source to
my OMF importer. this shows "clearly" what is needed to create a
session file from scratch.