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File Access:

Indexing:

You have two Apple Loops Libraries, one is called “Apple Loops –

Lib1” and the other is called “Apple Loops – Lib2”. You want to

access those Loops though the Loops Browser inside Logic and

therefore have to index them:

• You drag the folder with the Apple Loops Library onto the Loop

Browser. The folder can be on any mounted drive: internal,

external, network mounted or a CD/DVD drive

• The Loop browser opens a dialog window and gives you two

options, how to treat the folder

Current Location

: The Loop Browser leaves the “Apple

Loops - Lib2 “folder in its original location and creates

an alias in the

“~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User

Loops

”

Copy to Loops Folder

: The Loop Browser copies the

“Apple Loops – Lib1” folder into the directory

“~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops

”

• The Loop Browser creates now an index file and stores all the index information for the “Apple Loops – Lib1” and “Apple Loops – Lib 2” folder

in that file. The file is stored in the directory

“`/Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index/

”

Browsing:

When you use the Loop Browser to search for index Apple Loops,

then the only files are used are the index files. They contain all the

information needed for browsing

When play the Loops in the Loop Browser or drag them into your

song, then the Loop Browser accesses the audio files in their original

location, which is stored in the index files.

NOTE: the alias file of an Apple Loops library, stored outside the

“

~Library/Audio/Apple Loops/”

directory is technically not needed. If

you would delete the alias, the Loop Browser would still function,

because it retrieves all its information from the index files

Re-indexing:

There is no direct command for re-indexing which you might use

when

• Remove some Libraries

• Remove individual files from a Library

• You Loop browser takes a long time to find files

You have to use a trick to force the Loop Browser to reindex:

• Remove an Apple Loop from its Library, search fro that specific

file in the Loop Browser and try to preview it.

• The Loop Browser displays the file (even if it is removed from

its location), because it gets that information from the index

file, which didn’t notice the removal (the index file is just a

snapshot of the Apple Loops Library when it was indexed).

• When you use the preview function however, the Loop Browser

tries to access the actual file based on the information of the

index file.

• If Loop Browser can’t find the file in its supposed location then

it will popup a “

Can’t Find Loop”

dialog window with the option

to “

Reindex

Loops”

This is a complete Reindex, which means that

• The Loop Browser looks in root and user “

Library/Audio/Apple Loops/”

Directory and creates an index file for each folder (Apple Loops

Library)

• Make sure that all aliases can be resolved (mount all volumes with the original Apple Loops Libraries). If the alias can’t be resolved then no

index file will be created and that Library will not be visible in the Loop Browser

Apple Loops - Lib1

Index file - Lib1

Index file – Lib2

Apple Loops – Lib2

AMS Properties Window

browse

Apple Loops – Lib2

Library/Audio/

Loop Browser

play/

import

Apple Loops - Lib1

Index file - Lib1

Index file – Lib2

Apple Loops – Lib2

AMS Properties Window

index

Apple Loops - Lib1

index

Apple Loops – Lib2

Library/Audio/

index

copy

alias

Loop Browser

Apple Loops - Lib1

Index file - Lib1

Index file – Lib2

Apple Loops – Lib2

AMS Properties Window

reindex

Apple Loops – Lib2

Library/Audio/

Loop Browser

index

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