Hello,
I’ve recorded and played back multi track on my new CQ-20B to SD Card.
Can anyone tell me how I can re name my recordings please?
Thanks
You would have to do that on your computer as the mixer doesn’t have that function as far as I can see.
However as the Mixer only uses a FAT32 file system any naming change would have to be within what FAT32 will read and write and any workarounds used by the A&H coding gurus.
I note that A&H have a file in the SHOW save folder called NVDATA.Dat one of its purpose appears to be storing info which allows file names longer than 8chars held in the mixer NVRAM to be displayed on screen in Mixpad ie longer than 8 characters.
My testing hasn’t got as far as checking what really happens if I name a song folder with say 16 characters name on the computer and then put the card back in the mixer.
I know the files do playback (but I haven’t renamed them only the folder) and I can see the longer folder song name on screen but there a few under the hood programming tricks which might be giving me a false sense of security.
Theres been enough posts about lost presets and file corruption to set the warning bells ringing for me. I want to know exactly what happens at the file system level to avoid file corruption at inopportune moments. So still learning.
My guess is the Mixers FAT32 file system will, for the purpose of internal processing, truncate all filenames longer than 8. This will matter if the truncated file name is no longer unique. I have used lots of longer file names which are displayed correctly and so far never given me a playback issue but have probably been lucky that the first 8 characters of my renamed file remain unique allowing the mixers playback programming stream to work. The A&H tech guys will know specifically if they wrote all the code.
Theres also another potential benefit, depending on your workflow. When renaming your recordings, they get a time stamp from your computer clock. The mixer hardware doesn’t have a clock so can’t timestamp the recording files with anything other than a default date. But again all the data field length have to be correct for the requirements of a FAT32 file system. But dates are usually OK (But I remember the millennium date programming scramble).
Hope this all makes sense and is of use, I cut my computing teeth on the old MSDOS file systems and had forgotten a lot of this stuff many years on. The CQ mixer and other audio gear i own has caused me to revisit the issues during my testing with the mixer.
Its definitely a great mixer at its price point and seems to have an excellent programming team behind it at A&H.
Cheers
David