On 13/07/12 James Morris <james(a)jwm-art.net> wrote:
Hi,
My sampler app has Non Session Mangement implemented but is currently
still referring to external files by their original path.
I want to use the symlink method as discussed fairly extensively here
but I'd like to know if there is any recommended strategy for naming
the symlink of a sample.
It could so happen that as far as the filesystem is concerned the only
discerning uniqueness between two samples is in the path (ie
kit1/snare1.wav and kit2/snare1.wav).
I've come up with three possible solutions to this (in my current order
of preference):
1) symlink-to-sample created in a subdir named using a hash* of the
full path to external file
2) painstakingly re-create the full path within the session dir and add
the symlink into that.
3) some horrible text manipulation of the full path (ie replace / with
_) that is bound to fail.
* J. Liles mentioned SHA1 here:
http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lad/2012/3/30/189343
Are there other/better options or disagreements about (1) being a good
choice over the other options I've presented?
Have just realized that a problem with (1) is the loss of information
contained in the naming of the path. Is that a problem or not?
James.