... I came up with a file naming format a while back, in an attempt to sort several year's worth of confusing filenames.
It works very well - for me at least - but it's difficult and time consuming to suddenly change over to a system like this.
As someone once said, you either pay for having to do it now, or you pay later for not having done it ... Anyway, here's the format:
Cakewalk File name format:
Field 1: The Song / Project / Template name
Field 2: The Date in yyyy-mm-dd format
Field 3: Category, 3 char. signifying: DEM – Demo, idea, sketch, TRA - tracking, MIX – mixing, MAS – mastering, PRT – Project template, TRT – Track template
Field 4: Version/Take number
Field 5: File extension: Cakewalk file extension eg .cwp, cwt etc.
Fields are separated by underscore characters
EXAMPLES:
3rd take of ‘MySong’on July 28 2022 would be saved as: MySong_2022-07-28_TRA_03.cwp
5th Mix of ‘MySong’ recorded on Nov 12 2022: MySong_2022-11-12_MIX_05.cwp
1st Recording of ‘A7GtrRiff’ demo on October 19 2021: A7GtrRiff_2021_10_19_DEM_01.cwp
3rd version ‘StringQuart’ Project template made on March 4 2022: StringQuart_ 2022_03_04_PRT_03.cwt
Any thoughts ?
Cheers,
Tom