...and of course there was just MED before OctaMED....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctaMED
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Dan MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Maybe it should be called audio file
>> > since we support more than .wav. I
>> > have a feeling renaming may affect
>> > a lot of things though.
>>
>> I would not call it "Add audio track"/"Import audio file" because midi
>> and even med files are audio files, too ;-)
>>
>>
> I can see why you say that Jens but it's not true. Whilst I agree that
> "wave track" is slightly misleading as many people, rightfully, associate
> the word wave with .wav files in audio production when MusE's audio tracks
> could also be using FLAC or OGG etc, a MIDI file is not an audio file and
> nor is a .med. It is generally accepted in music technology and audio
> production that when you refer to an audio track you are referring to
> something thats not a MIDI track and involves sampled sound. .med files are
> neither - they are project files. Conversely a MIDI track may trigger
> samples but the tracks data primarily is MIDI data and this doesn't involve
> samples. I would like to see MusE adopt 'audio tracks' instead of 'wave
> tracks' to fit in with the terminology used by every other DAW out there.
>
> This little rant on nomenclature and terminology has reminded me of
> something that has irked me since I first tried MusE but I've kept bottled
> up all these years. .med files! Who decided we should use the .med
> extension? They clearly didn't know much about trackers as they would've
> known .med clashes with OctaMED files! D'oh!
>
> So, lovely MusE devs - please! If we need to make any big change to MusE
> project file format lets give the project files a different extension that
> isn't used by another file format and especially not a music-related one!
>
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