[linux-audio-user] ardour and mp3?

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:27 -0500, Matt Price wrote:

> I notice however that ardour pretty well always converts my .wav files,
> no matter what sample rate I set them to.  IS there another format to
> which I can pre-convert my material so that loading it into ardour is
> relatively rapid and painless?  Or am I missing something?  So for
> instance I have a wave file here:

just embed them rather than importing them. importing always means that
a new file is written; embedding  means that we'll just use the file as
is (if possible).