9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
11:23 a.m.
On 10/8/05, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
I've tried this a couple of times. I have some CDs with lots of drum
loops - about 800-1000/CD. I then have 20 or so Acid loop CDs, each
with 200-400 loops. All this stuff is on one of my 1394 drives. When I
tell Ardour to import the first CD's directory it works, and usually
works for the second CD also. At this point I can still expand and
shrink the directory listings in what I guess is the interface to the
sound file data base, but it's has gotten very slow. When I add in a
3rd CD with probably 300-400 loops what happens is even the visual
interface isn't working. I see the name of the first CD imported,
along with a '-' in a box, and maybe one downward line, likeit was
trying to draw the hierarchy, but it never prints anything else, and
the '-' won't contract to show me the second CD anymore.
I could send you some screen shots if it would help.
I do wonder if this isn't some basic database problem. Has anyone else
tried to put possibly 5-10 thousand files into their sfbd? I suspect
that this is an opportunity to use MySql waiting to happen.
I tried building FreeCycle but it didn't build. I haven't found a user
list to subscribe to. The program does have a forum where I posted my
compile error. I'll continue to try and build it if I get some help.
Take care,
Mark
Thanks Paul.
It's looking like FreeSysle is possibly the app you were
thinking of? I'm trying it out today.
yes, that was the one.
Old story, which I know you know, but I'd
really like to see the
Region List beefed up so that it doesn't fail with large nubers of
files (it dies here with more than a few hundred files) and then
i am just wrapping up rewriting the visual side of the region list for
the gtk2 port. what do you mean by "dies with more than a few hundred
files" ? someday have some of this retiming capability in
Ardour. Of course,
libaubio looks promising. soundtouch seems fundamentally unable to do
the job correctly.