"Bob? What was/is it supposed to do?"

If you are doing a track by track extraction from an audio CD it saves you having to click the Save dialogue box to confirm the file name for each track. Well I assume that's what it does as I can't find the option to turn it on to confirm. Having just extract 60 tracks from a CD would have saved a lot of sitting down clicking a mouse.

"MIA? Was it ever IA to start with?"

Don't know. I only just found this option in the online help which could have saved me no end of tedium over the years and now I can't find it.

"Intriguing . . "

Frustrating is the word that sprung into my mind :)

Bob.

According to the V8 manual the option is in the "CD Settings" which it isn't. I've checked several versions of Vegas as well and it WAS in Version 5.

Bob.

I have probably misunderstood but here goes.
Project media> extract Cd> Action > read entire disc.

As I said, I probably misunderstood the question

Read entire disk gives you a single file.
I want to read all the tracks off the CDs with each track as a separate file without having to click through the Save As dialogue for each track.
Logged as support ticket, let's see what they can make of it.

Bob.

Bob,

In version 6, if you just SELECT all of the tracks (using shift or whatever) then it saves them one at a time with name prompts.

It still uses the SAVE AS prompt I guess. That is what you don't want?

Go to PREFERENCES>CD SETTINGS>AUTONAME EXTRACTED TRACKS> I think this does what you want.

Dave T2

Yes Dave,
that's eactly what I want, in Version 8.
It is in Version 6, what happened to it???

Bob.

Sorry, I don't have version 8 so I can't help.

Dave T2

That's OK, the option is also missing in V7!

It looks like from V6 to V7 they moved the Extract Optimisation slider to the CD extraction dialogue. Also in the same part of the CD settings was the Automate Extracted Tracks tick box and it just didn't make it to anywhere.

Bob.

What about the Hidden Preferences. Sometimes they leave legacy options in there.

Dave T2

Great minds think alike but not joy in there either.
Even if it was, they'd still need to fix the documentation.

Not that big a deal for me, I can always use V4,5 or 6.

Bob.

True - I've stared using Vegas since v.7, and have been frustrated by the need to confirm the save as name for each track...

Seems like such a simple thing, why take it out. Unless it was some sort of copyright concern.

Should be relatively simple for someone who writes scripts. I have not got into that yet though.

Dave T2

"Seems like such a simple thing, why take it out."

A mistake most likely. Both the manual and the online help says it's there!

Bob.

Well I got a reply from support.
They seem to think the functionality is now in the MusicID button, which it isn't. They ignored the fact that both the online help and manual is wrong.
Support clearup rates have been improved. You used to get 10 days before they'd automatically assume the issue was resolved, now you get 48 hours.
I checked what the check box does in V6, works perfectly. I can extract every track from a CD into a sequentialy numbered separate file automatically.

Bob.

Bob,if you have CD Artchitect - this does what you want easily.

I have CD architect, I have every version of Vegas back to V4.0.
And I have SF7 and SF9.
I can get done what I want.

I also want SCS to fix their product. Not everyone has all the options that I do.

What I find so frustarting (that's deliberate) is how difficult it is to get the buggers to pay attention when you're trying to help them.

Bob.