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If I have all the RealTracks, is there any reason to keep the folder named C:\bb\RealTracks - Demos? It takes up 1.27 gigabytes that could be put to better use elsewhere.
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You can delete it all. Might be better to delete just the wma files though. The songs are tiny.
You will lose the ability to demo songs and audition real tracks from the style picker and realtracks dialogs.
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Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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I guess it would depend upon whether or not your style of use includes the auditioning of RealStyles. Might be a keeper if that is important to your workflow.
However, now that BB2012 also has the "get from Web" demo button, if your machine is online, you could at least get a listen to the demosongs that way.
What you would be missing is the ability to examine how the pgmusic pros set up songs and do various things with the program, perusing those demo songs has provided quite a lot of lessons for me in that regard, just playiag them back while watching what has been implemented has opened new horizons.
Myself, I'd say that if your disk space is getting so tight that 1.27g is significant, likely the time is better spent in obtaining a larger hard drive...
--Mac
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Ah, I didn't realize that folder was used for auditioning as well.
Next question: If I move my RealTracks folder to a different drive, should I move the RealTracks - Demos folder as well?
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No. Don't move the folder, or it won't be recognized.
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Peter Gannon
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...unless you set up a symbolic link to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link tells you about symbolic links in general - because I'm using Windows XP on my laptop, I had to add the ability to use symbolic links using a piece of freeware called "junction.exe", but I understand that symbolic linkage is available as part of Windows Vista and later. What happens is that you move the contents of "C:\bb\RealTracks - Demos" somewhere else - say "F:\bb\RealTracks - Demos", and then tell Windows that any time an application asks for something from a file in "C:\bb\RealTracks - Demos" it should look on drive F. As far as as the application is concerned, the files are in their original place on drive C. I used this for the RealTracks themselves when I thought (wrongly, as it happens) that it might resolve a problem I was having with the generation of RealTracks. The method obviously has a wider application when you're running out of disc space for any application.
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I'm not understanding why a third party software would even be needed for this.
If you move the RealTracks to another drive, simply visit the RealTracks Control Panel window inside BiaB and reassign where the program should look for them.
--Mac
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It's the "C:\bb\RealTracks - Demos" directory we're talking about here.
PG himself said that it shouldn't be moved, but I was pointing out a way in which it could be moved without BIAB being aware of it.
As documented in the thread "Frozen RealTracks silent when song file played on a different computer", I thought that the reason I was experiencing silent RealTracks might be that I had installed RealTracks on drive F, and my colleague's computer (the source of the malfunctioning BIAB files) had them on drive C.
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Cool. Got it.
Thanks,
--Mac
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Yes, symbolic links should work (I haven't tried that though).
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Peter Gannon
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