Re: [linux-audio-dev] multi-track audio files - what format ?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] multi-track audio files - what format ?
From: Andrew Clausen (clausen_AT_alphalink.com.au)
Date: pe loka   08 1999 - 20:40:42 EDT


David Slomin wrote:
> On NeXTStep, there was this convention, the name of which I forget, that a
> directory could be treated as a single file. You'd name the directory
> with a file extension (ie: "multi-track-song1.mts") and each file in that
> directory would be equivalent to a chunk in an IFF file. For the
> application that needed the multiple chunks, you'd enter the directory and
> access them like normal files, but for file management and distribution,
> you'd move the directory around as a whole. I'd love to see that on
> Linux, as it would solve this problem and many others very cleanly. The
> only required code changes would be in file managers (kfm, gmc, etc).

There was talk of supporting this on linux-fsdevel. They were going to
make it so you can read() and write() a directory, like a normal file.
Ted T'so called them "albods", from memory.
I don't know what came of this.
 
> I'm a little confused. Actually a lot confused. Isn't the default and
> most often used case to read and write all tracks at once?

Depends. In a studio, each track is usually recorded separately, while
all of the previously recorded tracks are played to the performer, to
keep everything in sync.

Andrew Clausen


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