Suggestion: remove bus numbers from export bus files

[Chris Boshuizen]

I would like to suggest that the numbering of buses on export be removed, because the numbers don't do anything useful, look ugly, can lead to confusion, and cost time to remove in file explorer.  

As you all know, bus export makes files like the attached image. For some reason the bus numbers get appended to the export wave files in the format Filename-busName-busNumber.wav.  This seems illogical, because with the number placed after the bus name, the resulting files cannot be sorted by bus number, and the bus numbers likely mean nothing to anyone you would send these files to. In fact, a file name MySong-Snare-2.wav begs the question, where is snare 1? Or, if you have two snares, what is MySong-Snare-2-3.wav supposed to mean? The more involved your project, the uglier and less useful these numbers become. 

I always think these files look unprofessional and spend the time to remove the numbers before sending to anyone, especially when there is risk of confusion. It would be much nicer if they weren't there at all. But I'd happily take an option to turn them off, or at least reprogram it so they appear before the bus name,  like this: Filename-busNumber-busName-.wav

 

A list like this would be kind nice!

MySong-1-Kick.wav
MySong-2-Snare 1.wav
MySong-3-Snare 2.wav

tl;dr: putting bus numbers after the bus names is confusing - consider putting them in front or removing them. 

 

[msmcleod]

What filename tags are you using?  If you're using the default preset, consider creating your own preset with a different set of filename tags.

[Chris Boshuizen]

10 hours ago, msmcleod said:

What filename tags are you using?  If you're using the default preset, consider creating your own preset with a different set of filename tags.

Ah, I hadn't tried the presets and wasn't using the tags because I was thrown off by there being no bus number or bus name in the tag pop up. It it seems {tracknumber} {trackname} work for buses so all it seems well-covered actually.  Consider this solved, thank you!

A couple of inconsistencies remain in the number schemes however:

In my case, I was talking about just changing the source category to "Buses", and changing the filename to text "My Song" (instead of {projectname}). That is what produced the odd result above, with files appended with dash and a number like MySong-BusName-1.wav.  If I leave the filename as {projectname} the bus name doesn't show up, and the numbers are in parentheses ProjectName (1).wav. If I use tags, I get indexed numbers, like this MySong-BusName-001.wav.

In the spirit of my initial suggestion, this default bus naming is very odd, and could probably be retired. But given that the tagging works great, I wouldn't call it a high priority to fix.