Solved Question about Media Folder

[Midiboy]

Maybe a silly question...maybe not...

How come SOMETIMES Studio One creates a Media folder when you drag an MP3 or WAV file from Explorer into your project, and sometimes it doesn't? I created a bunch of loops (wav files) from an outside source and drug them in, assuming Studio One would create a copy of them in the Media folder under that song folder name like it usually does when I pull in other sound sources...for some reason, it didn't create them, and when I ended up deleting the source files, assuming that S One created the media folder, it didn't. That was a bummer.

Yet, I just drug another file (an MP3) from my music library folder and it made a copy of it and placed it in the media folder.

 

[Lukas]

It depends

MP3 files are always decoded to raw audio because DAWs can’t work with MP3 data directly (it’s not a sample-based audio format). For these, Studio One always creates a WAV version in the Media folder.

For other audio files that don’t need conversion, it depends on whether you have “Ask to copy external files when saving song” enabled in the Options.

If you want to make sure everything in your song is stored in the Media folder, you can trigger this process manually by right-clicking in the Pool and selecting “Copy External Files”.

 

[Midiboy]

Got it! And thank you! I was able to use File History to get my loops back that I accidentally deleted and then copied them all to the media folders.