[Ardour-Users] Importer progress

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> Well the import script appears to be working. Will import these 500 files, and if it survives that, then I'll post the code for everyone to laugh and/or barf at.
>
> I have only one more stupid question.
>
> The % signs in the stereo file names. Is that absolutely necessary? Does Ardour expect those %'s in there, or will a '-' do instead, i.e. overheads-L.wav instead of overheads%L.wav?

the %L and %R naming convention comes from protools. its not very
important if you build the session file yourself. it does have
semantic significance if you ask ardour to import the files for you
because it does some heuristics about grouping foo%L and foo%R into
the same track if it seems appropriate.

> Just trying to have to avoid putting %% in the sprintf's if I can.

if that's the core of your troubles ... then smile on :)