Refill Packer - what formats?

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simonphinix1986
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12 May 2020

Hi I tried to pack drum samples (all in .wav format) into a refill. Unfortunately he shows me that the format is wrong. I removed all MIDI files, MP3 files and .DS files. The drum samples are in different folders. I tried to pack 3 folders into a refill.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be?

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doze
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12 May 2020

It should create a log file as well. I believe the offending file/problem will be listed in there.

WongoTheSane
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12 May 2020

Did you remember to place an "info.txt" file, correctly filled, at the root of the folder you want to pack? Otherwise it won't even start packing IIRC.

simonphinix1986
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12 May 2020

WongoTheSane wrote:
12 May 2020
Did you remember to place an "info.txt" file, correctly filled, at the root of the folder you want to pack? Otherwise it won't even start packing IIRC.
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Yes I think I did.
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bxbrkrz
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12 May 2020

simonphinix1986 wrote:
12 May 2020
WongoTheSane wrote:
12 May 2020
Did you remember to place an "info.txt" file, correctly filled, at the root of the folder you want to pack? Otherwise it won't even start packing IIRC.
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Yes I think I did.
Do you have any text files or anything of that nature inside 7 and 9?
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simonphinix1986
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12 May 2020

I did look into all folder seperatly. There are no formats other then .wav formats

Maybe it's because the folders are read-only. I can not deselect it. They are read-only whenever I go to properties

doze
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12 May 2020

No log file? I had a problem once because a wav file was damaged. After fixing/removing all worked fine.

simonphinix1986
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12 May 2020

doze wrote:
12 May 2020
No log file? I had a problem once because a wav file was damaged. After fixing/removing all worked fine.
How do I know which wav file is damaged. There are too many. I figured out. Pack 5 and 7 are good. It works if I create a Refill. It must be Pack 9. But there are only as I said wav files. Don´t know what to do. I guess I must hear everythink individually to find out which one is damaged maybe. But thanks for help anyway. Best regards,
Simon

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doze
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12 May 2020

That's why I said check the log, it should list the offending file. So you can replace it with a good one, or remove it.

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12 May 2020

Make sure you don't have any 32bit floating point wave files to be added to the refill. As those are still no supported by Reason iirc.

simonphinix1986
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13 May 2020

doze wrote:
12 May 2020
That's why I said check the log, it should list the offending file. So you can replace it with a good one, or remove it.
Doesn´t show the log. As it only shows like in my first post. See above. There is only a "OK" Button. Nothing else...

WongoTheSane
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13 May 2020

You can't avoid testing all the wavs to check which one is fawlty - I mean, faulty - but doing it by dichotomy is the fastest method. Make a copy of the Pack 5 folder first. Take out half of the files from Pack 5, put them in a folder somewhere.

- Try to create a Refill.
- If it works, the faulty wav is in the other folder. Delete all files from Pack 5, and move half of the files from the other folder into Pack 5.
- If it doesn't work, the faulty wav is in this half of the files. Delete all files in the other folder, and move half of the files from Pack 5 to the other folder.
- Repeat.

The last file is the faulty one (unless there are several!). You only have to do 8 tests for 256 files for instance. Not ideal, but optimal at least...

djsmex
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13 May 2020

I believe there is also a size limit for refills, not sure exactly what this limit is, something like 2gb or 3.5gb.
Perhaps someone else knows what the size limit is?

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14 May 2020

djsmex wrote:
13 May 2020
I believe there is also a size limit for refills, not sure exactly what this limit is, something like 2gb or 3.5gb.
Perhaps someone else knows what the size limit is?
4 GB.

djsmex
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14 May 2020

Thanks, that's 4GB unpacked, I'm assuming total size of source folder. Also worth checking splash image, meets the 96x96px size too.

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