Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

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THA-REAPER
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Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by THA-REAPER » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:07 pm

It would be nice to be able to drag your audio files from anywhere on your computer again...without getting one of these Image

Im not the one to really moan about stuff but wth, there's so much lost with Ableton 9...I let no sample disk support in 9 slide that live 8 once had.

This is just killing my workflow though...Do I really have to add the folder to the browser for it to show a spinning circle... honestly all I'm doing is trying to test my mix against a song I have on my computer...I feel no need to move and mess up my music library or duplicate something I'm not keeping in the project nor want in my library. Live 8 it was like drag, drop, ready to go.

Even something simple like getting onshots or audio samples were easier...download the file go into that folder and just drag the file/folder into live in the taskbar hover over your folder in the browser drop and its there added/imported ready for sequencing, manipulation, mangling, etc.
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infernal.machine
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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature)

Post by infernal.machine » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:14 pm

I can drag audio files from explorer with no problem. :?

THA-REAPER
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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature)

Post by THA-REAPER » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:22 pm

Which version of Live and version of Windows are you using? I'm using (9.0.1 x86) on (Windows 8 E x64). I don't bother with betas at all.

This is what I get on Live 8.4 x86

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This is what I get on Live 9.0.1 x86

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In both versions of Live I'm trying to drop onto an audio track in arrangement view. Same project at that.

So perhaps a bug or am I missing something here?

THA-REAPER
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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by THA-REAPER » Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:52 am

Anyone else get that?

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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by Michael Hatsis » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:10 am

Why dont u try upgrading to 9.02?

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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by GoodWilSunShine » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:12 pm

I know this is a pretty old thread, but I've had the same problem for months. I haven't been able to drag and drop .wav files from explorer to ableton since I upgraded from live 8 to live 9. Its killing my work flow. Please Help!

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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by alphadimension » Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:50 pm

When I open Ableton as Administrator I have the same problem you describe, maybe this is the problem. Also as Administrator, Ableton cant see my mapped network drives.

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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by ian_halsall » Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:00 pm

there was some noise on the beta about this which I was involved in - I think I was trying to drag into a directory I had added and it didn't work.

I don't do it that way any more - I just drag into the user library and from there I can do what I want with it.

This issue doesn't bother me any more - not sure it exists in my version but word was at the time that it only affected the 64 bit version.

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Re: Drag & Drop From Windows Explorer (Lost Feature or Bug?)

Post by creepjoint » Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:03 am

Yeah, its a known that you cant drag and drop from the OS when running Live as Admin on Windows

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