Did anyone actually got this trick to work?? {YES}

[FMiguelez]

I did a quick forum search to see if I could stream my music-import workflow.

What I want is to import a bunch of tracks from the Finder, by dragging them into DP, and that it places them all in ONE (existing or non-existing) audio track one after the other (butted together end to beginning). The order is not too important.
I can't figure it out...
I could do it manually, "throwing" each track one by one to get them to butt perfectly against each other, but I'd rather have DP do it automatically, if there's a way.

This is the most relevant thread I found, and I was delighted that there is a way to apparently do it, but I can't get it to work (the OP wanted the same thing)... Even if I do as magicd suggests, they all go into one track but one over the other, instead of next to each other.

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=60336#p511952

There's actually a very easy way to do this. Open the Event Editor for the audio track and drag the soundbites into there. The soundbites will be all in a row, perfectly butted up against each other.

Dave

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[Robert Randolph]

Drag the files to the soundbites window first, then from the soundbites window to the Event List.

Also, I think this is likely a bug that it doesn't work dragging from Finder. Maybe worth reporting that.

[stubbsonic]

Just did a quick test in DP 8.07.

First time, dragging two wav files crashed DP.

Second time, dragged two files in, only one appeared.

Third time, dragged one at a time, and they did what you want.

Fourth time, dragged two more in, both appeared on the same time location.

So there's a nice variety there for you.

[Robert Randolph]

Just did a quick test in DP 8.07.

First time, dragging two wav files crashed DP.

Second time, dragged two files in, only one appeared.

Third time, dragged one at a time, and they did what you want.

Fourth time, dragged two more in, both appeared on the same time location.

So there's a nice variety there for you.

I opened DP to make sure I knew how to do this (dragging from soundbites window instead)... and DP crashed twice on me trying to import.

I turned off automatic beat analyzing and it stopped crashing. It seems to only happen when dragging from finder.

I'm on 9.02.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it but I'm not in the studio until this evening.

[HCMarkus]

I drag one or more from Finder all the time without issue, but DP creates a new track for each WAV file.

Does not work when dragging directly from a USB Stick for me, so I first drag files to my work SSD from which they import into DP perfectly by drag n drop.

[Robert Randolph]

I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it but I'm not in the studio until this evening.

*ahem*

Drag the files to the soundbites window first, then from the soundbites window to the Event List.

[FMiguelez]

Drag the files to the soundbites window first, then from the soundbites window to the Event List.

Also, I think this is likely a bug that it doesn't work dragging from Finder. Maybe worth reporting that.

Thank you, Robert!
You're right, as usual. I just tried it like that, and bam! There they go.

I'm happy. It works well enough for what I want. Gracias!

This should work from the Finder, as magicd meant in his response. I wonder when this stopped working properly? I've noticed lots of crashes during audio-import tasks, like some of you reported.

It would be nice if DP would use the SAME FINDER ORDER to decide how to put them together in the track

Just did a quick test in DP 8.07.

First time, dragging two wav files crashed DP.

Second time, dragged two files in, only one appeared.

Third time, dragged one at a time, and they did what you want.

Fourth time, dragged two more in, both appeared on the same time location.

So there's a nice variety there for you.

Aha!
Thank you for your tests. Like you said, that little variation can be handy.

So, summarizing>
-- With DP9.02 one needs to import the audio files first, and then drag them from the SBs window into the Event List window of the audio track where one wants to join them all.

-- Any more track(s) added like this keep getting added to the left, perfectly butted against each other

-- This does not work from the Finder, as it should


Nice. Thank you all!

I doubt this is in the manual, BTW...

[Robert Randolph]

I doubt this is in the manual, BTW...

Since you mentioned this, I had to look...

It's on pg. 402 in the DP 9 user guide under "Dragging soundbites into the Event List". It even explicitly says to drag from another window "such as the Soundbites window."

I think we're all guilty of RTFM here. I just happened to have been the idiot that smashed headfirst in to this and struggled to figure it out first

Regardless, it should work from finder. Importing stuff in to DP is always such a pain, and this is just another instance