Hi,
I am very excited about the new FLAC files but I have one major installation concern.

I have a whole bunch of 'bonus' Realtracks/Realdrums that came with the various bonus paks or with Xtrastyle sets or Xprostyle sets that I have bought over the years and these are installed in the same Realtracks/Realdrums folders as those supplied with the main program. If when I install a new version I first delete the existing Realtracks/Realdrums folders then I would lose all these 'bonus' RT/RDs and figuring out what is missing and reinstalling it would be a nightmare (even if I could still find the install disks - I am talking about well over a decade worth of these bonus tracks!). To counter this I have previously been advised by PG not to delete the old Realtracks/drums folder contents but instead to copy the new ones across over the top and this works fine with the duplicate files just copying over the old ones with the same name & extension and my 'bonus' RTs/RDs being preserved.

However...

As the new versions of the RTs/RDs from 2025 onwards will be FLAC files rather than WAV I assume that they will have a different file extension and will not copy over the existing wav files but instead just be installed alongside them. This will mean that I will end up with duplicates of all the pre-2025 RTs/RDs (one FLAC version and one WAV version) and instead of saving 60% on my disk space I will instead end up using 140% of what I currently use - which kind of defeats the purpose of the smaller FLAC files.

Are PG able to provide some sort of intelligent install function that deletes the old WAV version of an RT/RD file when a FLAC version is available? (or even a post install clean-up utility to do this?). I guess that this issue would only need to be addressed once and then everything would be FLAC only from that point on.

Regards, Aubrey

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