[QLab] media integration into workspaces (couldn't post aticket - BUG!)

[Steve Waddicor]

On 13 Dec 2006, at 18:08, Michael Keniger wrote:

> The idea of a single show file may appeal in some ways, but if it gets
> corrupted you've lost everything - I'd much rather keep individual  
> files,
> consolidated to a single project folder as mentioned above (which  
> is how I
> work anyway).

It might help if I explain what a bundle is.  A bundle is a special  
sort of folder that Finder displays as though it were a single file,  
but it isn't.  The most common form of bundle is an application.  An  
application looks like a single file, but if you right click on it in  
finder and click "Show Package Contents", you'll see that it's  
actually a folder with other folders within it.  One of the files in  
there will be the application executable file, but then there are  
others which supply resources in various languages, or images that  
the application needs etc.

Thus a bundle is no more likely to become corrupt than any other  
folder. And if any of the files within it become corrupt, it's no  
more significant than a single file any any other folder becoming  
corrupt.

So the suggestion never was to put all the sound files into a single  
file, but into a single directory called a bundle.  A directory that  
would look like a single file in the same way that an application  
looks like a single file.

I hope that makes sense.

Cheers,
Steve.