Maybe basic, but I didn’t find an elegant solution.
When I export an audio from my open project, I cannot give the exported file a name, I can only choose a location. So if I had already done an export to my project folder, it will only give me the option to either overwrite the current audio (“Do you want to overwrite the file…”), either to cancel.
If I want to keep my previous exported file, I have to go into Finder to first rename the current one.
Is there a more ergonomic way to do multiple exports over time?
(I do mp3 exports as sort of sound “snapshots” of the work in progress)
At the moment, no. Many users have requested that we provide further functionality in this area, and it’s definitely on our wish list for the future, but I’m afraid we’ve not given it sufficiently high prority to have worked on it ahead of other things thus far.
Daniel, please forgive me for dredging up this old topic again, but I wanted to point out a problem with the current situation on a Mac that might bear on its priority. The mp3s created as exports are given metadata that includes the original name as it was exported. The usual way of playing mp3s on the Mac (say, by double clicking) opens them in the Music program, which looks at the title in the metadata tag, and if it finds a match in its library of things that it has already played, it often plays that one instead. So if you export a flow, change the project, and export the flow again, double clicking the new file may play the old one, even if you have renamed them. This is confusing at a minimum, and can be dangerous, as I have almost forwarded the wrong file to a publisher. One can avoid the problem by looking in the Music library each time for a file that has the original name of the new file and deleting it, but that is chancy. The problem would be rectified by not putting the name in mp3’s metadata and allowing the file name to be set on exporting. Thanks.
Welcome to the forum, @flutecomposerjon, and thanks for your feedback. We do plan to make it possible to directly specify the ID3 information in MP3 export in future versions of the software, though I cannot promise when.
In the meantime, you might want to consider using an alternative media player on your Mac, and change the default file association for MP3 files away from the Music app to avoid this problem.
This is the media player I personally use, for example, which I find to be excellent:
I set QuickTime Player as the default player for audio files that I launch from the Finder (because I don’t necessarily want every audio file that I play or work with to be added to my Music library); and if I want to explicitly add audio files to the Music app, then I just drop them on the window/icon.
If you need greater functionality (like editing mp3 metadata), there are plenty of other audio editors/players: Audacity, Sound Studio, IINA, etc.
I would like to second this: I want to export rehearsal tracks for a choir (piano + bass, piano + tenor, piano + alto, piano + soprano) and it would be nice to be able to name the export files.