Re: refresh file

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Steve the Fiddle <[email protected]>
wrote:

> By default, Audacity copies the audio data from files when importing, so
> the audio data in Audacity is NOT the audio data in the file. Thus,
> modifying the audio file outside of Audacity will make no difference to the
> Audacity project.
>
> For uncompressed audio file types (such as WAV or AIFF), there is an
> option (non-default) to read audio data directly from the file and not copy
> the data. In this case, modifying the audio file outside of Audacity will
> automatically and immediately  change the sound of the Audacity track, but
> the appearance of the waveform will not be updated until some operation is
> performed that forces Audacity to update the waveform. Note that Audacity
> is not designed to be used this way, so the results may be unpredictable
> and you may lose data.
>

What I am getting, with this second procedure, is that sometimes the audio
is updated in audacity.
I did not grasp why it sometimes updates (e.g. file size is not imperative).


>
> For more information, read this part of the manual:
> http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_projects.html
>
> Steve
>
> On 1 October 2017 at 14:35, Renato Fabbri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Audacity has opened a sound file.
>> Some other app changes the file.
>> Any fast way to refesh in Audacity
>> the sound file that has changed?
>> tx
>> R.
>>
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