Use your filemanager for importing files in Ardour/ qtractor

[studio32]

Take note that you can always use whatever your favorite file manager / browser is and drag-and-drop external files into qtractor or Ardour or ... (eg. from your 'samples' directory) provided it supports a dnd protocol of course. this is the most obvious reason why there's no file browser in qtractor: you can use your own, which i'm certainly will be the fittest to purpose.

[schivmeister]

I suppose with those apps that are available for Linux this is fairly safe practice, but do remember that there are others that trigger different functions depending on how a file was brought in to the session. For instance, Pro Tools links the files if it's a drag-n-drop action - they're not copied.