To maintain the order you selected the media, you will need to be in Detail view, not List or Thumbnail view. If you have already selected the media in List or Thumbnail view, you will need to reselect them in Detail view.

Could you upload a sample playlist to something like DropBox so I can download and take a look? Or is it in a standard playlist format? Adding files to a specific audio track, even with an overlap, should require a relatively simple script.

It's not a playlist, it's just multiple different audio files. I would love to know more about how I can get started with a script that achieves this.

To maintain the order you selected the media, you will need to be in Detail view, not List or Thumbnail view. If you have already selected the media in List or Thumbnail view, you will need to reselect them in Detail view.

Thank you so much for this suggestion, this helps a lot! It's not perfect but a nice step in the right direction!

"For each video a random sequence of songs are used (already automated) but I can't figure out how to use the generated list of songs to automatically put them on the timeline in the correct order."

You must have a list somewhere? The list defines the random sequence of files that are to be played.

"For each video a random sequence of songs are used (already automated) but I can't figure out how to use the generated list of songs to automatically put them on the timeline in the correct order."

You must have a list somewhere? The list defines the random sequence of files that are to be played.

The list is just a text file generated by a python script that I wrote. I did this so I wouldn't have to manually decide the music for each video and the python script makes sure no song gets repeated in 2 consecutive videos.

So what is in the text file? Could you upload or at least show an example of exactly its contents?

So what is in the text file? Could you upload or at least show an example of exactly its contents?

Here's an example:

"1. Hillside Plaza - Brazil Stage
2. Theme of Guile
3. Theme of Urien
4. Theme of Falke
5. Forgotten Waterfall - New Zealand Stage
6. Lifeformed - 9-bit Expedition [Dustforce OST]"

This format is used so I can just copy/paste it into the description of my Youtube videos. I can change it anytime to something better suited to work with a Sony Vegas script if that's what you had in mind.

To be able to import your audio files into Vegas in a specific order, all you need is a textfile that contains the filepaths in the order you want. For example,

D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wham - Everything She Wants.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wham - Careless Whispers.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wayne Fontana - Game Of Love.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Troggs - Wild Thing.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Trini Lopez - If I Had a Hammer.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Tornadoes 74 - Telstar.mp3

You should easily be able to do this in your python script.

A script could then be written that reads in your list of filepaths and for each item, adds it to the project media pool, creates an audio event on your selected track and then adds the item as the Active Take for the newly created event.

To be able to import your audio files into Vegas in a specific order, all you need is a textfile that contains the filepaths in the order you want. For example,

D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wham - Everything She Wants.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wham - Careless Whispers.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Wayne Fontana - Game Of Love.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Troggs - Wild Thing.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Trini Lopez - If I Had a Hammer.mp3
D:\Music\MP3 Music_Disc 1\Tornadoes 74 - Telstar.mp3

You should easily be able to do this in your python script.

A script could then be written that reads in your list of filepaths and for each item, adds it to the project media pool, creates an audio event on your selected track and then adds the item as the Active Take for the newly created event.

 

Yeah it would very easy to change it in my python script. The part that gives me a headache though is the Sony Vegas script... I briefly looked over the "VEGAS Pro Scripting API Summary" and I can't figure out how to add a file to an audio track. Most scripts that I saw work with existing media in the timeline and simply check whether it's a video or audio track to perform a specific task on. That's another part I'm not sure about: How do I perform a task ONLY on a specific audio track?

I feel like I would to spend a lot more time with the API to get this done lol

Well... adding audio to a track is really fairly simple. This is an example (I'm using another routine to find the track but you wouldn't need to do that. You could easily specify which track but this gives you an idea of how it's done).

                if (mymedia.HasAudio())
                {
                    Atrack = (AudioTrack)FindTrack(titleName, false);                    //Do we need a audio track? And did we find one?
                    MediaStream astream = mymedia.Streams.GetItemByMediaType(MediaType.Audio, 0);
                    if (null != astream)
                    {
                        myNewAudioEvent = new AudioEvent(starttime, astream.Length);
                        if (Atrack == null)
                        {
                            Atrack = new AudioTrack(999, titleName);  // Using number 999 so it will add it "last"
                            myvegas.Project.Tracks.Add(Atrack);
                        }
                        Atrack.Events.Add(myNewAudioEvent);
                        Take myNewAtake = new Take(astream);
                        myNewAudioEvent.Takes.Add(myNewAtake);
                    }
                }

You'll also need to reset the "starttime" to the correct value at the beginning and add the "length" to the "starttime" after each one is added. If you want them to crossfade, you could add a little less than the full "length" to the "starttime".