[linux-audio-user] Survey about exporting audio sessions

[Thorsten Wilms]

And a rough tanslation of a mail from a Peter P., 
just to have it all in one thread, as a base for discussions.
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Good that you take on this weakspot of every DAW

- Do you export once in the end, or do you do tests in
between?

Both, both should be possible as you know a project is never finished

- Do you work with stereo and/or multi-channel?

To exchange projects with others, it's very important to be able to
export a session to several .wav files of the same length

- What are your targets: CD, DVD, Web?

Mainly CD. For DVD you can render 6 separate tracks, everything 
else will be done at authoring.

- File-types: WAV, Flac, Ogg, MP3?

WAV, ogg

- Bits and sampling rates you need?

The usual: 44.1 and 48 KHz, 16 bit

- Do you or would you like to export to several formats at
once? If yes, which exactly?

No, that's definitively no necessary as you can do that super-fast 
with shell-apps like oggenc and flac.
Much more important is exporting several tracks at once.

- Do you know of outstanding solutions in any application?

No, honestly not. That makes even more important to tackle 
this problem.

- What problems do you run into?

Manual muting of single tracks to export them one by one (see above)


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Thanks to all who responded. Additional input is still welcome.

Next I'm going to work on a specification.


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Thorsten Wilms