[linux-audio-user] 24-track setup question

[D R Holsbeck]

Well I have been running Ardour on Debian for at least 2 yrs. And have
found it very reliable.

I have had crashes similar to yours. Mine were usally caused by a
corrupted routing/config file. But I have NEVER lost any audio data.
Which is the main reason I run Ardour.

Looking at an old session there are 2 files that I would look at.
SessionName.ardour and  SessionName.ardour.bak. I have had some luck
with restoring the session by copying the backup file
SessionName.ardour.bak to  SessionName.ardour. And when worse come to
worst, I would just import the audio files into a new session. You
could  also try "diff SessionName.ardour SessionName.ardour.bak".

And remember Your Mileage May Very ;-)
 

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:04, Sebastian Stark wrote:
> On Sunday 11 July 2004 01:01, R Parker wrote:
> > Well...OK. I'd suggest subscribing to ardour-user@ and
> > if you use IRC then visit #ardour on freenode.net.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> >  Okay, I just
> > > thought it freezed or something so I restarted first
> > > ardour and then the
> > > whole computer. I can playback other projects or
> > > newly created ones. I just
> > > cannot play this specific project.
> >
> > It's pretty tough to guess what may be happening. More
> > information is needed. When you open the session with
> > Ardour, do you get a popup window Error Log? If yes,
> > please post the contents here.
> 
> I get no errors.
> 
> > If there's no error log, then perhaps you've lost the
> > routing for that session. I don't know what you mean
> > by "replay" the song. Does the playhead move and do
> > you see levels in the channel meters? If yes, check
> 
> Exactly this is the problem: By "replay" I mean pressing the play button. If I 
> do this exactly nothing happens besides the play button turning yellow.
> 
> > That version of Ardour is pretty old. I'm not a Debian
> > user so I can't help with any of upgrade issues. I was
> 
> I've upgraded from Debian stable to testing to get newer packages and now it 
> turns out this is too antique as well... I should give Demudi or unstable a 
> try...
> 
> > gonna suggest you upgrade but you are new to linux
> > that might not be the best advice. If that version of
> > Ardour has the features you need for learning and
> > working on your sessions don't bother. A 1.0 stable
> > release is expected soon enough that you could wait
> > for it.
> 
> I guess I'll have to wait for this. A pity, I just fell in love with those 
> Mellotron choirs I recorded and no I cannot listen to them :)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sebastian
>