14 Oct
2008
14 Oct
'08
8:53 a.m.
Hi,
Is it possible to have a file browser in Qtractor like you have in
energyxt or lmms?
In qtractor I only see the files which I have added as track or midi.
Wouldn't it be useful if I have a browser so I can easily pick out some
samples from my 'samples' directory, some midi files from my 'midi'
directory, saved project files etc. ?
Regards,
14 Oct
14 Oct
9:43 a.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to have a file browser in Qtractor like you have in
energyxt or lmms?
In qtractor I only see the files which I have added as track or midi.
Wouldn't it be useful if I have a browser so I can easily pick out some
samples from my 'samples' directory, some midi files from my 'midi'
directory, saved project files etc. ?
yeah, i've thought about having one and adding it is pretty easy in fact
(Qt has a drop in solution for just that:). however, i always concluded
it was about adding yet another file browser to the bloat :)
take note that you can always use whatever your favorite file manager /
browser is and drag-and-drop external files into qtractor (eg. from your
'samples' directory) provided it supports a dnd protocol of course. this
is the most obvious reason why there's no file browser in qtractor: you
can use your own, which i'm certainly will be the fittest to purpose.
i'll reconsider though, if demand gets overwhelming ;)
cheers.
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10 a.m.
2008/10/14 Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc(a)rncbc.org>
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Hi,
Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from any files browser. This is not a
feature that comes to my mind obviously.
In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have a file
browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview" button in the
import sound window. If I remember, the software Specimen use this preview
button and Ardour too.
This could be a solution isn't it ?
Personnaly I use Rox-filer and I don't think there is a preview feature for
sounds. And even it exists I should have issue, because I use Jack and
Freebob ;)
Cheers, and keep up your great work !
Mysth-R
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Hi,
Is it possible to have a file browser in Qtractor like you have in
energyxt or lmms?
In qtractor I only see the files which I have added as track or midi.
Wouldn't it be useful if I have a browser so I can easily pick out some
samples from my 'samples' directory, some midi files from my 'midi'
directory, saved project files etc. ?
yeah, i've thought about having one and adding it is pretty easy in fact
(Qt has a drop in solution for just that:). however, i always concluded
it was about adding yet another file browser to the bloat :)
take note that you can always use whatever your favorite file manager /
browser is and drag-and-drop external files into qtractor (eg. from your
'samples' directory) provided it supports a dnd protocol of course. this
is the most obvious reason why there's no file browser in qtractor: you
can use your own, which i'm certainly will be the fittest to purpose.
10:39 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:00 +0200, Mysth-R wrote:
Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from any files browser. This is
not a feature that comes to my mind obviously.
In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have
a file browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview"
button in the import sound window. If I remember, the software
Specimen use this preview button and Ardour too.
Ardour has the preview button on its own file browser but that is mostly
because Ardour's file browser also supports tagging files with arbitrary
metadata.
Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file browsers that
support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
--p
12:21 p.m.
Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:00 +0200, Mysth-R wrote:
fwiw, qtractor also has a preview button (audio only): it's that little
blue triangle at the bottom-right of the audio file list widget ;)
double-clicking on an audiofile item also triggers the preview (or
should it be pre-listening?) feature
cheers
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Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from
any files browser. This is
not a feature that comes to my mind obviously.
In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have
a file browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview"
button in the import sound window. If I remember, the software
Specimen use this preview button and Ardour too.
Ardour has the preview button on its own file browser but that is mostly
because Ardour's file browser also supports tagging files with arbitrary
metadata.
Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file browsers that
support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
12:31 p.m.
2008/10/14 Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc(a)rncbc.org>
Paul Davis wrote:
Oh yeah of course, but this is only for sounds you already imported in
Qtractor, isn't it ?
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:00 +0200, Mysth-R
wrote:
fwiw, qtractor also has a preview button (audio only): it's that little
blue triangle at the bottom-right of the audio file list widget ;)
double-clicking on an audiofile item also triggers the preview (or
should it be pre-listening?) feature Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from
any files browser. This is
not a feature that comes to my mind obviously.
In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have
a file browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview"
button in the import sound window. If I remember, the software
Specimen use this preview button and Ardour too.
Ardour has the preview button on its own file browser but that is mostly
because Ardour's file browser also supports tagging files with arbitrary
metadata.
Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file browsers that
support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
cheers
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1:12 p.m.
Mysth-R wrote:
2008/10/14 Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc(a)rncbc.org>
yeah, right :) by drag-n-dropping a file into qtractor you're also
adding it to the file list (besides, "import" is not the right word for
the whole operation, but you get the idea:)
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Paul Davis wrote:
Oh yeah of course, but this is only for sounds you already imported in
Qtractor, isn't it ?
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:00 +0200, Mysth-R
wrote:
fwiw, qtractor also has a preview button (audio only): it's that little
blue triangle at the bottom-right of the audio file list widget ;)
double-clicking on an audiofile item also triggers the preview (or
should it be pre-listening?) feature Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from
any files browser. This is
not a feature that comes to my mind obviously.
In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have
a file browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview"
button in the import sound window. If I remember, the software
Specimen use this preview button and Ardour too.
Ardour has the preview button on
its own file browser but that is mostly
because Ardour's file browser also supports tagging files with arbitrary
metadata.
Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file browsers that
support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
1:32 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:37:49PM +0200, Paul Davis wrote:
Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file
browsers that
support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
It also allows to add shortcuts to 'preferred directories',
but these are shared with other GTK apps, e.g. Acroread.
If all apps use the a shared list of such directories it
becomes rather long and that just defeats the original
purpose. It's also a security risk. Is there any way to
make this local to each application ?
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10:03 a.m.
Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Ok, thanks for that information... we will wait and see.
I think with such features developers should also think about the people
who are not Linux geeks or are converts from a other OS.... and who
doesn't knows that you can do it with any filemanager.
They just want user friendly and nice looking apps ;)
Hi,
Is it possible to have a file browser in Qtractor like you have in
energyxt or lmms?
In qtractor I only see the files which I have added as track or midi.
Wouldn't it be useful if I have a browser so I can easily pick out
some samples from my 'samples' directory, some midi files from my
'midi' directory, saved project files etc. ?
yeah, i've thought about having one and adding it is pretty easy in
fact (Qt has a drop in solution for just that:). however, i always
concluded it was about adding yet another file browser to the bloat :)
take note that you can always use whatever your favorite file manager
/ browser is and drag-and-drop external files into qtractor (eg. from
your 'samples' directory) provided it supports a dnd protocol of
course. this is the most obvious reason why there's no file browser in
qtractor: you can use your own, which i'm certainly will be the
fittest to purpose.
i'll reconsider though, if demand gets overwhelming ;)
cheers. 
10:39 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008 schrieb Grammostola Rosea:
I think with such features developers should also
think about the people
who are not Linux geeks or are converts from a other OS.... and who
doesn't knows that you can do it with any filemanager.
They just want user friendly and nice looking apps ;)
But drag'n'drop was invented by apple afaik. And I learned about dragging a
file from the "explorer" to word to open it back when I was using windows.
That is fairly standard on that platform. Or at least it should be if you
ever read the manual or attended a course. Or watched the ms advertisement
they had while win was installing...
If you ask for the geeky solutions, it would probably be a dbus call
like: "dbus org.qtractor tracks/1/loadsamplefromfile <filename>" :-)
Have fun,
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