ze2be wrote:I like the new browser. But yesterday I got to feel the problem it introduces first hand. I had a friend visiting, and he wanted me to load a simple wav file from his usb drive into a track. Using windows browser I copied his file to a folder on my drive. And so in Live 9 im about to find it in its browser, and drag n drop into project: Where is browsing? There are no direct browsing haha!! Omg! I had to create a new folder linked to my drive just for this, but its impossible to do direct search because indexing took forever. Were not going to sit there for ages waiting just to check out a simple wav clip, so instead I just drag n droped it directly from a windows window into Live. Problem solved.
To prepare for this in the future one might want to create folders in Live 9 browser for any possible combination, and have it all indexed before hand. Then when indexing it will probably find the new files much quicker, as the old ones are already done.
But I see now that I really miss normal direct browsing from previous Live versions!
/mild rant
I agree with this whole post except the part where you say 'I like the new browser"
I also would add that it takes several more clicks and several more "where the fuck is xyz" moments with the new browser.
Its not that the old browser was great, it was also kind of shit but it's better than the one in l9.
I really don't like the functionality of the plug in folder, if I click on the audio units folder the vst folder collapses, if i click on the vst folder the audio units folder collapses,(the same thing happens for every folder within the plug ins folder) I want both open all the time.
Maybe what they could do have is a couple of buttons some place other than the browsers, one to access vst's and one to access lives instruments, and then free up the browser just for browsing for audio or midi clips.