Is there any possibilities in FMOD Studio to prevent data duplication in Banks? I am worried about this, because having large amount of events it is very easy to assign different events with the same audio files to different banks and thereby duplicate the data in those banks. Is there any ways to…

Audio source data shared between Events that are in separate Banks will be duplicated in each Bank. There is no way around this because we allow people to load individual banks. This will cost you extra download and install space, but it won’t cost you any extra memory at runtime. It will detect th…

If there is no built-in possibilities to do that I guess alternatively I could ask our programmer to write a script which will be doing something like: 1 Take an audio file name from Audio Bin. 2 Search in Events project folder what events are using that file. 3 Search which events containing our…

Thank you for your answer Nicholas. Yes, I understand the idea behind thins. You can deliberately duplicate data in banks for your own needs but also you can do this accidentally for example if you populating events from Audio Bin and there a thousands files in there. And HDD space is also a cruci…

Is there any tool in FMOD Studio to currently report when an audio file is included in multiple banks? This is quite an important feature for our project to have, because size constraints on mobile affect your app performance.

Hi, Unfortunately, there isn’t a build in feature. However, I have made a Studio script which can find assets that have been included in multiple banks. ▶ Find Duplicate Audio Files.js The script can be put here to be available to all FMOD Studio versions: "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\FMOD Studio\S…

[image] slojanko: I would strongly suggest to put this as a built in script. I will certainly pass it onto our development team to investigate further. [image] slojanko: May I also ask if there’s some IDE where I can get autocomplete when writing scripts? You are able to code directly…

How to prevent data duplication in Banks?

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slojanko April 14, 2025, 7:16am 7

We’ll try and report back.

I would strongly suggest to put this as a built in script.

May I also ask if there’s some IDE where I can get autocomplete when writing scripts?

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How to prevent data duplication in Banks?

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