Originally Posted by jonel
Hi Charlie,
The files shown in the attachment have no connection with performance files, these were only to show differences in ".SGU" extension when Windows extensions were enabled/disabled.
The performance files were are result of the poor file handling by BiaB and you are correct with regard to the result.

That's incorrect. The files in that attachment will import and open in the BIAB SGU project that has the same name as the Artist Performance Files. The Windows extension settings may be related to how they may have unintentionally or inadvertently were converted and saved. It doesn't matter if the files originated in a BIAB project or were renamed outside the project. Any file with the same name as the project is always recognized by BIAB program and imported into the project as an Artist Performance File.

To demonstrate this, I saved a random BIAB song demo ZZJazz then selected a random MP3 audio file that had never been in the BIAB song demo and renamed the MP3 to the same name as the song project, ZZJazz and opened the BIAB SGU project and BIAB imported that MP3, converted it to audio and loaded it onto the default audio import track - Audio.
The Audio track labels show "Artist" and the track label is Orange as an Artist Performance Track.

There are two ways this conversion can occur.
Manually as Audio Track stated.
Automatically by BIAB after edits or changes to BIAB generated tracks that are unrelated to a BIAB track generation. An Artist Performance Track can consist of RealTracks, SuperMidi, Midi, Loops, Audio or any combination of these. Files converted automatically will convert to an Artist Performance File but will not show in the folder directory until the file is saved. This only occurs when files and the song are in the same directory. If you attempt to save a track as an Artist Performance File without the project having been first saved, you're prompted to save the project and then do the track conversion again.

The key point is files and project with the same name in the same directory creates Artist Performance Files.

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BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.