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Re: [exs] Placement of instrument wav files

2001-01-24 by Rubber Chicken Software Co.

At 11:30 PM 1/21/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I've decided to convert my Akai library into EXS format using
>CDxtract. I need to use the option "create directory structure":
>CDxtract places the Exs instruments into folders, but all the
>associated wav files into the above directory. If I want to convert
>200 cds this would result in too much wav files in one directory. So I
>would like to place the wav files of one Cd into one directory. The
>whole conversion will take about 60 hours and I really don't want to
>do it twice. So my question is: Will there be a way in 4.7 to move the
>instrument wav files around without destroying the association
>beetween *.exs and *.wav or will it only be possible to move the
>instruments?

I can't speak for emagic, but I doubt it, and the file spec provides for a 
path name.

It's a bad idea to move the .wav files in one directory - what if two .wav 
files have the same name?

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