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importing audio from CD

importing audio from CD

2007-11-20 by Lee Scott

I tried importing audio from a cd tonight for the first time, from  
within the audio window. Where does the file go? After I quit the  
song and tried to open again, the file could not be found. I tried  
importing again. When I put the CD in iTunes opened up and somehow  
renamed the CD "John Ford Radio"!? Anyway, I figured out that once  
the file was in the audio window I used the "move" function to copy  
the file to the song folder.

Is there an easier way to do this?

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Re: [Logic_Cafe] importing audio from CD

2007-11-20 by Gregory

You didn't really import the audio at all.  You just added a  
reference to it to your song.  If you add from a CD, then check the  
path in the audio window (make sure "Show File Info" in the View menu  
is checked), it should show the name of the CD.  You shouldn't be  
able to do any destructive editing to it until it is copied to a  
writeable media.  You can do that prior to Logic, in say, iTunes, or  
save from Logic, as you mention.

This behavior is different in L8, however.  When adding a file from  
CD, L8 puts a copy of the audio file in the global or song-specific  
record path specified in the audio preferences panel.

Gregory


On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Lee Scott wrote:

> I tried importing audio from a cd tonight for the first time, from
> within the audio window. Where does the file go? After I quit the
> song and tried to open again, the file could not be found. I tried
> importing again. When I put the CD in iTunes opened up and somehow
> renamed the CD "John Ford Radio"!? Anyway, I figured out that once
> the file was in the audio window I used the "move" function to copy
> the file to the song folder.
>
> Is there an easier way to do this?
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


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Re: [Logic_Cafe] importing audio from CD

2007-11-20 by Lee Scott

thanks,

does this mean that the audio was playing off the CD in real time  
with the Logic song, or has it been copied to some sort of buffer, or  
unnamed on the hard drive? Sounds like L8 works more like ProTools in  
this regard.
On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Gregory wrote:

> You didn't really import the audio at all. You just added a
> reference to it to your song. If you add from a CD, then check the
> path in the audio window (make sure "Show File Info" in the View menu
> is checked), it should show the name of the CD. You shouldn't be
> able to do any destructive editing to it until it is copied to a
> writeable media. You can do that prior to Logic, in say, iTunes, or
> save from Logic, as you mention.
>
> This behavior is different in L8, however. When adding a file from
> CD, L8 puts a copy of the audio file in the global or song-specific
> record path specified in the audio preferences panel.
>
> Gregory
>
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Lee Scott wrote:
>
> > I tried importing audio from a cd tonight for the first time, from
> > within the audio window. Where does the file go? After I quit the
> > song and tried to open again, the file could not be found. I tried
> > importing again. When I put the CD in iTunes opened up and somehow
> > renamed the CD "John Ford Radio"!? Anyway, I figured out that once
> > the file was in the audio window I used the "move" function to copy
> > the file to the song folder.
> >
> > Is there an easier way to do this?
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> 



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