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Hallo allerseits

Bin zwar neu hier im Forum aber schon seit längerem mit BiaB unterwegs. Nach BiaB 2012 und 2014 jetzt neu mit BiaB 2019 auf Windows 10. Damit macht mir Saxophon üben mehr Spass.

Nun würd mich mal interssieren was der Unterschied zwischen *.mgu, *.mgx, *.sgu, *.mg1... files ist.
- Wenn ich einen neuen Song erstelle wird dieser normalerweise als*.mgu gespeichert.
- Wenn ich ein Midi File importiere wird der Song jeweils als *.mgx gespeichert. Aber auch wenn ich bei einem *.mgu Song eine Melodie auf die Solo-Spur kopiere um daraus eine 2. Stimme zu erstellen kann ich den Song nur noch als *.mgx abspeichern.
- Seit BiaB 2019 scheint sich das geändert zu haben. Denn wenn ich einen *.mgx Song verändere und dann speichern will wird dieser als neuer *.mgu Song gespeichert.
- Als *.sgu wird ein Song bei mir gespeichert, wenn dieser nur eine Audio Spur enthält und der Style deaktiviert ist.

Was aber sind *.mg1, *.mg2, etc. Files? Diese kommen offensichtlich von viel älteren BiaB Versionen. Was soll / muss ich bei solchen beachten?

Kenn sich jemand hier damit aus. vieleicht wurde es in diesem Forum auch schon mal behandelt und ich hab es noch nicht gefunden.

Beste Grüsse Alex

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Hallo Alex.
Herzlich willkommen im Forum!
Die Sache mit den File Extensions ist einfach: Sie sind austauschbar und du kannst die File Extensions untereinander nach Belieben frei umbenennen, Band in a Box wird die Dateien trotzdem richtig öffnen.
Die verschiedenen Dateiendungen stammen aus der Historie des Programms. Seinerzeit sollten sie – unter alten Betriebssystemen, die weder lange Dateinamen kannten noch die Möglichkeit, Dateiinfos schnell schon vor dem Öffnen auszulesen – dabei helfen, verschiedene BiaB-Dateiarten zu unterscheiden: "SG" sollte signalisieren, es ist eine Songdatei, also nur Akkorde ohne Melodie, das "MG" eine Datei mit Melodiespur, ein "MGX" sollte anzeigen, dass die Datei einen eingebetteten MIDI-Track enthält und die Durchnummerierungen sollten helfen, die eigenen Songdatenbestände besser strukturieren zu können. Das aktuelle Band in a Box macht aber bei allen diesen Datei-Endungen keine Unterschiede mehr.


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