Insert existing media

Hi forum!

I’m having a problem retaining existing media in a session.

I’ve imported the files, both from Freesound and my hard drive - same problem. The ‘Copy to session’ check box is ticked, so they should be firmly connected to the session - yes?

After editing and copying the files on a track, everything plays nicely - the sounds are definitely there and being played back - I made sure I did a File>Save.

When the session is re-opened however, the imported stuff has all disappeared from it’s track. Also, on doing a FIle>Cleanup>Cleanup unused sources, the files I previously imported are all listed and are removed from the session.

So my question is, how do I get the files to remain where I put them?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew

Rule #zero for bug/issue reports: version of ardour? platform you’re running on? where did you get ardour from?

Sorry Paul. It was Ardour 3.0 and now again with the latest 3.1.10 downloaded from ardour.org. Fedora 18 64-bit.

Do you need anything else?

Cheers,
Andrew

Are there any error messages on the console or otherwise when you open your session?

  Seablade

Hi Seablade. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - trying to do too many things at once! Below is the log when I re-open the session:

[INFO]: LV2: Discovering 294 plugins
[WARNING]: Ignoring invalid LV2 plugin http://home.gna.org/lv2vocoder/1
[INFO]: Loading menus from /opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/etc/ardour.menus
[INFO]: Loaded mixer bindings from /opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/etc/mixer.bindings
[INFO]: Loading bindings from /opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/etc/mnemonic-us.bindings
Loading 82 MIDI patches from /home/schmoo/.config/ardour3/patchfiles:/opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/share/patchfiles
[INFO]: Loading history from /home/schmoo/Ardour/SweetCharity/RhythmOfLife/RhythmOfLife.history
[INFO]: Loading 82 MIDI patches from /home/schmoo/.config/ardour3/patchfiles:/opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/share/patchfiles
[INFO]: Loading history from /home/schmoo/Ardour/SweetCharity/Weddings/Weddings.history
[INFO]: Loading 82 MIDI patches from /home/schmoo/.config/ardour3/patchfiles:/opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/share/patchfiles
[INFO]: Loading history from /home/schmoo/Ardour/SweetCharity/RhythmOfLife/RhythmOfLife.history
[INFO]: Loading 82 MIDI patches from /home/schmoo/.config/ardour3/patchfiles:/opt/Ardour-3.1.10-dbg/share/patchfiles
[ERROR]: Session: XMLNode describing a AudioRegion references an unknown source id =20691
[ERROR]: Playlist: cannot create region from XML
[ERROR]: Session: cannot create Playlist from XML description.
[WARNING]: Regions in compound description not found (ID’s 20632 and 20682): ignored
[WARNING]: Regions in compound description not found (ID’s 20623 and 20673): ignored
[INFO]: Loading history from /home/schmoo/Ardour/SweetCharity/RhythmOfLife/RhythmOfLife.history
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioPlaylist id = 16363
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioPlaylist id = 16363
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 20982
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21018
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21009
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21000
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 20991
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 20991
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21000
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21009
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21018
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioRegion id = 21018
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioPlaylist id = 16363
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioPlaylist id = 16363
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioPlaylist id = 16363
[ERROR]: could not reconstitute StatefulDiffCommand from XMLNode. object type = ARDOUR::AudioPlaylist id = 16363

Does this help at all? Do you need any more info?

Cheers,

Andrew