<kbd class="menu"> File > Archive…</kbd> menu.
</p>
<p>
- It allows to create a single file containing everything usefull in the session,
+ It allows to create a single file containing everything useful in the session,
to share it or back it up, conveniently compressed to a session-archive which
is a zip-file (tar.xz to be specific) containing all the audio, MIDI,
plugin-settings,... and the currently active session. Ardour can also extract
<p>
The window shows the following options:
</p>
-<dl>
- <dt><dfn>Archive Name</dfn></dt><dd>The name of the archive file, defaulting to
- the name of the session followed by the date and time</dd>
- <dt>a dropdown extension selector</dt><dd>allowing to choose between different kind or
- compressed archive file types</dd>
- <dt><dfn>Target directory/folder</dfn></dt><dd>defining where in the filesystem
- the archive file will be generated</dd>
- <dt><dfn>Audio Compression</dfn></dt><dd>a dropdown menu allowing to compress
+<table class="dl">
+ <tr><th><dfn>Archive Name</dfn></th><td>The name of the archive file, defaulting to
+ the name of the session followed by the date and time</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>a dropdown extension selector</th><td>allowing to choose between different kind or
+ compressed archive file types</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><dfn>Target directory/folder</dfn></th><td>defining where in the filesystem
+ the archive file will be generated</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><dfn>Audio Compression</dfn></th><td>a dropdown menu allowing to compress
the audio files themselves by using an audio-tailored compression format, more
- on that bellow</dd>
- <dt><dfn>Exclude unused audio sources</dfn></dt><dd>a checkbox to drop every
- audio that is in the session, but not actually used in the editor</dd>
-</dl>
+ on that below</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><dfn>Exclude unused audio sources</dfn></th><td>a checkbox to drop every
+ audio that is in the session, but not actually used in the editor</td></tr>
+</table>
<p>
The <kbd class="menu">Audio Compression</kbd> selection accepts any of:
<p>
Encoding the audio sources to <abbr title="Free Lossless Audio Codec">FLAC</abbr> allows for a good size reduction of the session.
It should be noted though that FLAC is a fixed-point format, meaning that if the
- audio in the session is in a floating-point format, this conversion will loose
+ audio in the session is in a floating-point format, this conversion will lose
some information on the samples values that are rounded, though usually, this
lost information cannot be perceived. Choosing "<em>None</em>" for Audio
Compression does not compress the audio to FLAC, hence preserving the floating-point
any unused take or reference material out of the backup, reducing the archive's
global file size.
</p>
+