Decoding cache

Here's a little nugget I found last night...

When you drag an mp3 from your library (left) into an audio track, you will see Ableton analyze the track first. The result of this analyzing is an 'asd' file, (by default this '.asd' file is parked in the same folder as the mp3), and a decoded .wav file from the mp3 which is parked in Abletons 'decoding cache.'

Thinking I was being organized, I went ahead and told Ableton to go ahead and analyze my whole mp3 collection, which resulted in all my hard disk space being used up! Youch! I suppose this might be handy for guys with small music collections or huge hard drives, but that's not me...so...

I went into the preferences page and set the limits (max and min) of my decoding cache so I won't have to deal with my disk space being consumed rapidly.

I guess the tradeoff is when you are playing live and want to drop a track in quick, you might want to have it analyzed first or you are going to have to wait for Abelton to analyze it before you can start working it.

So...heads up on that. Game on...