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Finding and deleting files with no sound
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04/10/08 + gorf

Hi everyone,

I made a post quite a while back about how I was moving a bunch of songs from acid into live, and was running into an issue where I had hundreds, if not thousands of empty wav files left on my system after rendering each track out (8 bars at a time).

Somebody, I can't for the live of me remember who, was kind enough to make a script that would check each file to see if there was an amplitude of 0 through the whole thing. It would store the files names in a flat file, from there the files could be removed from my system.

I seemed to have lost that script when moving over to my new machine. If anyone backed it up other than me could you please let me know? It was amazingly helpful!

Thanks so much, again!

/mike

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04/11/08 + gorf

It's times like these I really wish em411 still kept archives. Sigh sigh sigh.

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04/11/08 + ejectorset

it seems like it was using sox, at least i remember your thread and suggesting sox. then someone else did a script using it i think.

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04/11/08 + fakeBlooper

i remember that thread. it was a good thread. it will be missed.

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04/12/08 + dkarma

gorf I'm also currently moving some of my music from acid pro to live...any reason you moved them 8 bars at a time? I tried rendering entire tracks of a song to wav then putting them into live but got a complete loss of sync

did doing short clips like that alleviate the problem?

sorry to hijack the thread

04/13/08 + gorf

Hey,

I moved them 8 bars at a time so I could loop/manipulate different parts of the song in different ways for the "live" performance.

You shouldn't have sync issues... strange. Try highlighting the entire song as your loop region, then export and tick off the checkbox that reads "export each track as a separate file", then all should be good.

:S

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04/13/08 + dkarma

i did that but instead of selecting all the tracks I did them one at a time.
then i took the resulting mp3s and popped them into live in sessions mode one in each column and played them all at once. It sounded nothing like the original in acid did.

I'll try doing them all together and see if that makes a diff.

thx

04/13/08 + gorf

converting to mp3 may insert a tad of silence at the start of the file and may be throwing things off.. I was doing everything to .wav.

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04/14/08 + gorf

On second thought, that probably wouldn't make a difference considering each clip would have the same amount of silence at the start of the file... Strange.

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