[LAD] NSM - handling large files

[Rui Nuno Capela]

On 03/30/2012 10:27 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:14:50PM -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
>
>> Personally I prefer Ardour's behavior myself.  I do keep my samples on an
>> external drive, but in the end the ability to maintain a self-contained
>> session for portability purposes is important to me.
>
> You always have that ability, even if you allow others not
> to use it. And if you don't allow that, as Ardour does when
> by chance it can, it's no longer an 'ability' but something
> forced onto you.
>

On 03/30/2012 10:14 PM, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
 > Personally I prefer Ardour's behavior myself.  I do keep my samples on
 > an external drive, but in the end the ability to maintain a
 > self-contained session for portability purposes is important to me.  But
 > to each their own.
 >

aha. this discussion may still be in flux and i believe it's all about 
session management and not whether each application native behavior is 
wrong or right. aham ;)

but ntl. let me see,

ardour stores a world under its own session directory on a per session 
basis. you may call it that way or project, song, collection, whatever 
is more appropriate. check.

otoh, qtractor doesn't do that but you (the human being) are in control, 
remenber? it's your choice anyway. and there's an exit option: you may 
chose anytime to save the whole (qtractor) session in a zip file 
container. in case you don't know, this is a pretty regular zip file 
(besides having an esquisite .qtz file suffix), just like 
(open|libre)office and .jar files are and, as far as my knowledge goes, 
are pretty portable stuff ;)

again, the subject at hand is about session management and whether huge 
or small "external" files are to get reported to the SM from 
applications in its way to collect, map(*) and possibly massage--my 
nomenclature here--a managed-session-"repertoire".

(*) map: hashes, symlinks, hardlinks or whatever--it's a SM 
implementation detail anyhow

otherwise, i may be way off base (which is not that rare:^))

cheers
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