Re: Fwd: Re: merging mono files

At the end of the day I only need the merged files. By what I suggested, 
I though I could go one step further of automating the lot with a single 
click since, as you say, subfolders are processed too. So I reckoned 
that creating a structure of folders and subfolders like this, the 
entire lot could be processed without having to go back to the script 
and change the name each time.

I hope to get the most out of the script and should I have reasons to 
process other files similary, all I would have to do is keep the 
structure the same irrespective of the different names that other 
samplesets would carry.

Mark


On 12/12/2016 19:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users wrote:
> On 2016-12-12 12:12, Dr. Mark Bugeja MD wrote:
>> Should files in subfolders be handled in the same way as those in the
>> main folders, by running the script, then it might be even better to
>> separate the L folders from the R folders:
>>
>> Recit Organ > Left  > Bourdon16L
>>                      > BassoonHautbois8L
>>                      > Cor-De-Buit8L
>>                      > etc etc
>>              > Right > Bourdon16R
>>                      > BassoonHautbois8R
>>                      > Cor-De-Buit8R
>>                      > etc etc
>> NB: each folder has a list of files + 3 folders, each with its own
>> list of files. Structure and names of L folders correspond to R
>> folders.
> For the purposes of running the merges I'd suggest you don't change the
> structure of the files.
>
> After you've merged them, you can move the individual files around
> however
> you please.
>
>
>> Then modifying the script to:
>>
>>              pathDir  = "E:\"
>>
>>               ' a sample name, without a trailing L or R
>>               sampname = "Recit Organ"
>>
>>               leftDir   = pathDir & sampname & "L\"
>>               rightDir  = pathDir & sampname & "R\"
>>               stereoDir = pathDir & sampname
> This will not work because you've lost the "Basson16" (etc) part of a
> sample name.
>
> WORSE, from a programmer's perspective, and likely to complicate your
> understanding
> of what the script does, is that having a 'variable' called 'sampname'
> and then
> storing in it something that does not include a sample name, just
> obscures what the
> code is meant to do.
>
>
>
>> .... also, Stereo files could be placed directly into folders without
>> the "S"
> Yes, they could be... but at the moment you have a 'standard convention'
> in that
> folder names are the base sample name plus one letter.  Programmers like
> simple
> ideas like this because it means that if you find in future you need to
> do other
> automated manipulation of folders, it's easy to write code that 'knows'
> that every
> such folder is named 'samplename' + L/R/S.  If you change that then you
> lose some
> knowledge about what's in that kind of folder, and increase the chance
> that you
> accidentally damage the wrong files, and you also need to write more
> logic that
> knows when the suffix letter is there and when it is not.
>
>
>



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