sliced beats directory

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HSJIII
Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:50 pm

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sliced beats directory

I filed a bug a few days ago, about the fact that FL does not open projects files (at all) when audio files used by a project, in playlist, are moved on disk. (It doesn't even let you browse for them -- it simply doesn't open, and doesn't tell you why; it calls the project "corrupted" and does not continue to open it at all). This to-do runs parallel to that bug report: if you select "edit" on audio in FL, and process that through edison, and then you select-and-drag a new audio clip from edison into playlist, the audio file it generates is dumped into the FL "sliced beats" directory. This is NOT where you would really want the files to go under any circumstances... you would probably want them to go either into your content directory (your personal soundbank), or into the directory of the project file, so the media you created in edison is organized with your directory structure. Because it is not put into either of those directories, it's almost a guarantee that any organized person will want to try to move the files from FL "sliced beats" to where they actually belong, on disk. But because FL crashes the project load when files are moved, this secondary inconvenience becomes alot bigger than just an inconvenience. Nobody wants their audio files scattered all over the place, and hard to find... the "sliced beats" directory is completely disorganized and has no sane relation to the larger order of things... and ultimately it stands to become VERY cluttered, and with no order at all, after you use edison/playlist clips, enough times... and again, FL is designed to FORCE you to leave the files there. Please ...do something to let users conveniently move these files to where they belong (probably the project file directory, or a browsed directory), or (this one is best actually)-->> let the user specify where they will go (fl can cooperate in helping to move them to the right place).

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