Is there a way to have Adobe Audition auto-create tracks from CSV?

September 12, 2017 12:28 PM

Doing some scratch recording for a video game tomorrow. We have a spreadsheet with all our dialog demarcated by role, level name etc. and then an "ID" column that looks like "DIALOGUE_SUPERJOE_WAREHOUSE_299_01". Is there a way to hand Audition a CSV or similar of those ID's and have it auto-create tracks with those names or do I have to manually name each track by hand?
posted by GilloD to Technology (2 answers total)

The audition multitrack file format SESX is XML. I just opened Audition and created a few tracks with different names, and then opened the SESX file with a text editor and found the track names. You could probably just script something up to eat your CSV and then put those titles in the correct XML tags.
posted by gregr at 2:14 PM on September 12, 2017

Response by poster: I ended up doing something hackier- I ended up writing a quick c# app that ate the CSV and then created a bunch of .wav files with the individual CSV item names. Then I just imported the .wavs as empty files into Audition.

But your way sounds a heckuva lot cleaner, I may try that for fun.
posted by GilloD at 4:57 PM on September 12, 2017