Forgot to CC the list. See quoted email below. > David, > > > Thanks fir the quick response. > > Yes, but on windows, that location is in "program files" which is bad design > for adding new content. I think Linux has similar storage design for samples. > > In my experience, using a Home folder, or -- more intelligently -- using an > external drive would be more acceptable and more portable for moving between > production equip but to the OPs point, mount points and drive letter are > subject to change with no easy way to fix them (right?) > > A project import on a different computer (or worse yet a different OS) could > take hours instead of minutes if an option to fix all external sample paths > could be added. > > This would also provide some incentive for the sharing platform to have > projects that may borrow from a common sample pack that didn't ship with LMMS. > > I'm currently reviewing a future book on Lmms by Pact Publishing that > actually stresses highly on using external storage for samples. > > Would you then suggest to load ALL samples from external and re-point the > application to never use its own built-in samples? Could this cause problems > when upgrading and newly provided samples are never included? How do you do > it? > > FLStudio has the option to save samples zipped with project files, which > works very well, but is extremely inefficient when working with many large > samples. > > I think the OPs question is a very common problem, and was wondering if > there's a suggestion box for enhancements. > > -Tres > > On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:19 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 12 January 2012 15:11, Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Is there a place to request a feature to add an option to fix this (like a >>> wizard that can fix all project paths?) >>> I'm fairly certain FLStudio had this same limitation, so this would be a >>> leg up... :) >> >> >> LMMS already has "LMMS WORKING DIRECTORY" in settings - we'd want LMMS >> to save sample paths as relative to that directory. Then just >> transplanting your "samples" folder would do the right thing. >> >> >> - d. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> RSA(R) Conference 2012 >> Mar 27 - Feb 2 >> Save $400 by Jan. 27 >> Register now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Lmms-users mailing list >> Lmms-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users
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