[LAD] NSM - handling large files

[rncbc]

On 03.04.2012 10:38, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 10:05 AM, rncbc wrote:
>> On 03.04.2012 06:49, Joel Roth wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 03:44:17PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
>>>
>>>> Back to life - back to reality
>>>>
>>>> 1. We start qtractor as part of a session, create some 
>>>> midi-tracks,
>>>> include some external wav-files.
>>>>
>>>> Should the SM "know" about these external files, as I suggested ?
>>>> (Allowing the user to find out basic info about it. )
>>>> Or leave it completely to qtractor ?
>>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> As I understand it, the primary motivation for a session
>>> manager is to be able to save and restore the state of an
>>> audio project[1] that consists of multiple interconnected
>>> programs running on a multiprocessing Linux system.
>>>
>>> In other words, the minimum capability sufficient to be
>>> useful would be some sort of checkpointing mechanism.
>>>
>>> A secondary goal, discussed extensively here, is that it
>>> would be nice to be able to copy a session or export a
>>> session. This is where all the contentious issues with
>>> handling filesystem objects comes up.
>>>
>>> The latter goal should be optional, IMO, rather than required.
>>>
>> </snip>
>>
>> this is exactly what i've been trying to tell (only that my english
>> wording leaves a lot to be desired)
>>
>> thanks Joel :)
>>
>> the primary goal is already achieved by qtractor on jack-session and
>> ladish; the second goal is the one i called "utopian".
>
> As far as I understood, to have everything saved in the session
> folder was designed to make the behavior of the session manager more
> predictable and more simple to avoid errors and misbehavior.
> To be able to export the session was *not* the primary choice for
> this (correct me if I am wrong).
>

but is this one i complain about. nb. getting the full application 
state saved under one SM session directory is a lot different than 
saving everything an application state refers to under the same SM 
session directory.

i'll gently recall you can actually have sort of both with qtractor 
under jack-session management: you just choose which of qtractor's 
default session file format you want: either the regular xml state file 
(.qtr) or the complete bundle, self-contained archive/zip file (.qtz). 
note that if your files are huge, saving in this latter format might 
just take more time :)

however, please note, that's just a qtractor's user 
preference/convenience option, not mandated by any permanent rule of the 
SM API.

byee
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela