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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0007657 | ardour | features | public | 2018-08-27 17:53 | 2020-04-19 20:18 |
| Reporter | Ardeshir81 | Assigned To | x42 | ||
| Priority | high | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Ubuntu | OS Version | 18.04 |
| Product Version | 5.12 | ||||
| Summary | 0007657: Drag&Drop MP3 file does nothing | ||||
| Description | I am new to Ardour5, the first thing I tried after opening the program was dragging and dropping a MP3 file from Nautilus(File manager) to the program, I expected it to automatically add an audio track and add my MP3 file to it. But It didn't happen. I manually added a new Audio track and tried dropping MP3 there! (anywhere in the track, middle, start, end ...) nothing happened! I expect it to automatically do what I expect it to do. and as it looks like, dropping Mp3 doesn't have any default behavior (it does nothing), why not assigning this behavior to it ? Thanks! | ||||
| Additional Information | I installed Ardour5 using Snap package manager (Ubuntu software center) | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Ardour does not support mp3. It is generally really bad practice to begin production or mixing starting with an already lossy format. |
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Yep! It's a really bad practice, and I didn't find out until I searched a lot and found some discussion page that it was discussed and I was convinced! But what I am asking for is just a default behavior! If it can't be imported, well, the default behavior could be a dialog/popup indicating: "Hey! I received your file, But unfortunately I won't import this file for you, because it is a lossy format." This way I say "ok, so I'll just convert it" But when nothing happens I go "Oh my god! Just importing a single file isn't that easy, who knows how harder are further things I'm gonna do!" and that scares off lots of newcomers to Ardour. For me I just reverted back to Audacity! Because what I wanted to do was to overlay one downloaded rap beat to a recorded rap vocal and output a demo! not to mix! BTW, after I found out I should convert my mp3 rap beat to .wav file, and I did that, I found out how importing was easy, drag&drop works, I even jumped straight into mixer and added some compressor and reverb, and everything worked just fine. like a charm! Thanks :) |
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All that being said, eventually Ardour may support mp3. Since all or Ardour's audio i/o happens via libsndfile, it may indirectly gain support: https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/258 Currently there is also a trick: You can use Ardour-menu > Session > Open Video ; and "extract the soundtrack only" (that calls ffmpeg and converts the file to .wav for you) |
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Thanks! @x42 good news and also nice trick plus one ;) +1 |
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Ardour6-pre1 can import mp3 files |
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Good news thanks |
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Issue has been closed automatically, by Trigger Close Plugin. Feel free to re-open with additional information if you think the issue is not resolved. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2018-08-27 17:53 | Ardeshir81 | New Issue | |
| 2018-08-27 19:26 | x42 | Note Added: 0020371 | |
| 2018-08-28 05:20 | Ardeshir81 | Note Added: 0020372 | |
| 2018-08-28 05:21 | Ardeshir81 | Note Edited: 0020372 | |
| 2018-08-28 15:28 | x42 | Note Added: 0020373 | |
| 2018-08-28 21:36 | Ardeshir81 | Note Added: 0020375 | |
| 2020-04-05 14:45 | x42 | Assigned To | => x42 |
| 2020-04-05 14:45 | x42 | Status | new => resolved |
| 2020-04-05 14:45 | x42 | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2020-04-05 14:45 | x42 | Note Added: 0021180 | |
| 2020-04-06 07:29 | Ardeshir81 | Note Added: 0021204 | |
| 2020-04-19 20:18 | system | Note Added: 0023781 | |
| 2020-04-19 20:18 | system | Status | resolved => closed |
