Export audio and Metro/itunes and ogg

[Scoot]

If you export audio and hit just export, the audio starts saving straight away. If you export using quicktime it preps it first and this can take a few minutes. What's it doing in this time and why does it do it?


Why does metro saving out as a MP3 take so long compared to itunes?
Are they using different engines?
To convert a GB of audio out of metro to MP3 128kps takes about an hour and in itunes 20 minutes.


If I can see .ogg files in the jukebox, but can't do anything with them, are they in some PC format or strange format.......or is something required to get them to play?

[Jerm]

If you export audio and hit just export, the audio starts saving straight away. If you export using quicktime it preps it first and this can take a few minutes. What's it doing in this time and why does it do it?

Metro is creating a Quicktime Movie file since this is what Quicktime requires to do the conversion. This may involve merging all audio regions and could probably be optimized to take less time in the case where there is a single audio region.

Why does metro saving out as a MP3 take so long compared to itunes?
Are they using different engines?

Metro does not do the conversion. The conversion to MP3 is done by the LAME audio engine and so why it takes so long would be a question better posed to the developers of that engine. http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Since it is open source, you could theoretically look at the code and make it faster.

If I can see .ogg files in the jukebox, but can't do anything with them, are they in some PC format or strange format.......or is something required to get them to play?

I do not understand. Metro reads and writes .ogg files, so you can do something with them in Metro. They are cross platform files.

[Scoot]

If I can see .ogg files in the jukebox, but can't do anything with them, are they in some PC format or strange format.......or is something required to get them to play?

I do not understand. Metro reads and writes .ogg files, so you can do something with them in Metro. They are cross platform files.

Do you need any other extension or plugin to read them?

If I get info on the file it tells me its a Ogg Vorbis Audio File.

If I drop it on the metro icon in the dock it says no movie found.

If I drag the file into the jukebox they go italic'ed and in the folder the file was in, a disabled folder appears and it goes into it.

[Jerm]

It sounds like the file is corrupt. Metro created it?

[Scoot]

Metro didn't create it.
I will throw it away.

Another silly format to avoid.