Betreff: Bitte Option einführen: Dateiendungen im Projektnamen anzeigen
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Ich arbeite regelmäßig mit verschiedenen Audioformaten (z. B. WAV‑Aufnahmen von einem Fieldrecorder) und speichere diese nach der Bearbeitung als AUP3‑Projektdateien. Dabei entsteht ein praktisches Problem:
Audacity blendet im Projektnamen die Dateiendung aus.
Dadurch erscheinen z. B. folgende Dateien im Programm identisch:
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Im Titelbalken und in den Tabs wird jeweils nur „Geige“ angezeigt, obwohl es sich um unterschiedliche Dateien mit völlig unterschiedlichem Inhalt handelt. Das führt leicht zu Verwechslungen, besonders wenn man mehrere Versionen oder Formate parallel bearbeitet.
Mein Vorschlag:
Bitte eine Option einführen, die es erlaubt, Dateiendungen im Projektnamen anzuzeigen (z. B. „Geige.wav“ bzw. „Geige.aup3“).
Das würde die Arbeit mit mehreren Dateien erheblich sicherer und übersichtlicher machen.
Vielen Dank fürs Prüfen!
Audacity never directly edits audio files. Audacity 3 projects are always AUP3 format.
Erst wenn du die Projekte (.aup3) als Musik-Daten exportierst, werden sie wieder zu Musikdateien (.wav oder wasauchimmer). Dein (unbekanntes) Betrübssystem sollte Alarm schlagen, wenn du z.B. “Geige.wav” überschreiben möchtest.
Hallo Steve, romontschun. Creating music files i.e. for uploading on youtube, I record natural violin together with midi-accompanying as wav-files, let’s say in 2 different voices, i.e.: ComposerA-1.wav, ComposerA-2.wav. These violin-files I put together in 2 different violin-tracks in audacity and save as ComposerA.aup3. The allready existing accompany-track which I need (piano for example, together with midi-violin tracks) has my original file name ComposerA.wav. I must open this file in audacity to copy the piano-track in ComposerA.aup3. So there are two identical named files open in audacity with different extensions. I know it is just my personal problem in naming files, but it would help a lot if I coud recognise the extension in audacity. Thank you very much for your assistance, Dieter
Note that technically, Audacity “opens” project files (.aup3), and “Imports” audio files.
This is not as clear as it could be because Audacity allows you to import audio files into a new empty project using “File menu > Open”.
Nevertheless, if you “File menu > Import > Audio”, you should be able to see the file names including the file extension in the file browser. Note that the file browser also has a “filter” where you can select which file types are visible (the default should be “All Files”).
Hallo Steve, thanks for your effort. Audacity also allows to “open” wav files, not only “importing” wav-files into existing aup3-files. Creating my YouTube uploads I use MIDI-created files with wav extension, clumsily for these midi-wav I’m used to take the same name as for the ultimately aimed youtube files. My browser shows the extension of files, of cause. Again thanks a lot for your effort; audacity is great! I use it since decades! I will change my habit! Dieter
Well, as @steve already explained: when .wav (or other) files are “opened” in Audacity, they become project files. It is the same as importing them.
Hallo remontschun. Plaese excuse my late answer. Thats all clear about normal audacity-use. I work on creating music for play along (many different tracks according to the actual score) and my youtube account. My starting track is a midi-file (partitur, all voices) produced with capella. With MidiEditor I fix rubati, volume etc. on each track carefully and separately. Next I save from this partitur so many “minus-ones” as the composition needs, as wav-files (mp3 is not time-true). The lacking voice to any “minus-one” I play and record (as wav) with my violin. Ultimately I have as many wav-files with each 1 (one) natural violin - timetrue linked to the midi-files. Now I have to use audacity to mix the different natural violin voices together, probably with a left midi-piano voice (wich I don’t know to play naturally). Therefore I have for one and the same composition many files with different extensions, several of them open in audacity in different simultaneously opened windows. For me it just would be convenient to see the extension of each open file in audacity. Surely, its just a case of file names to sort files. Dear remontschun, be sure I am fond of audacity! Many thanks for your effort! Dieter
I still can’t follow your workflow.
- If you have all voices in .wav files, the distinction between the coices needs to be in the filename.
- If you import a .wav file (or any other file) into Audacity, it is no longer a .wav file but something specific to Audacity, and if you save it, it is saved as an .aup3 file. So naming the track “something.wav” would probably break the “laws” of computing.
- The distinction between the various files needs to be done in fhe filename, not the extension.
Maybe you find a better solution for your problem (I hope so)?