Loading *.WAV as *.SND?

Hey guys,

Just recently, I've been loading up various song and programs from my flash card, and I ALWAYS save as WAV sounds. But, as I load the full songs up the loading screen says loading SND files, then some are wav, then others are SND.... and so on....

When I chop, I always save as WAV files.

If I look inside the folder directories, I can easily see there are no SND files. WTF? Anyone else seen this bug before? I have the latest 2kxl OS version.

The xl sees no difference between snd and wav, so it automatically looks for snd then wav when loading the samples associated with a pgm

I noticed that, on 2000XL, loading WAV file is slower than loading SND file.

Lampdog wrote:Maybe "View: ALL Files" in the correct folder and you should see everything.

Good point didn't think of this, maybe or maybe not looking at view all in the DIR. I'll check this out. If there really isn't any SND files in there though, I'm baffled.

There isn't really any issue, as long as it load the correct files I'm good.

I checked that I'm looking at "ALL FILES". There are absoloutley zero .SND files in any directories.
All of my beats that I load now say they are loading wav and snd files. WTF???

MrDismal wrote:I checked that I'm looking at "ALL FILES". There are absoloutley zero .SND files in any directories.
All of my beats that I load now say they are loading wav and snd files. WTF???

I already told you what was happening in my previous post. To explain it in more detail: a PGM file contains only references to the initial file name, not the extension (so 'snare_drum', rather than 'snare_drum.SND' or snare_drum.wav'), so when loading a program the XL looks for both SND and WAV versions of the file (SND first I believe). Doesn't matter if you don't have any SND files, the XL still looks for them when loading programs.

Have you never noticed that once a sample is in memory, the XL does not show a file extension? That's because the XL doesn't care if it's WAV for SND. It's the same when the program is saved, the PGM file itself doesn't care what format you saved the samples in, so it only internally references the file name, not the extension.

Okay thanks for the explanation. I'm just curious now because this has never happened. Why would it suddenly start doing this?

Its always happened on my XL - the only time you wont notice it is if you save your programs 'with sounds' - this is because when loading a PGM the XL looks for SND format of a sample first and if it finds it, it doesn't bother searching for the wav version.