Re: [LAU] file organization ?

Dave Phillips wrote:
...
> Does such a file manager exist ? How do you manage very large
> collections of soundfiles ?

I believe I've seen one or two the last 10-15 years, but the design and
thinking was more programmer/bed room inspired than done with the composer/
sound engineer mind set. One need a rock solid long term system, so I ended up
doing this by file structure:

Overall:
~/Studio
        Buffer
        Ideas-Sketches
        HW
        Projects
        SoundLib
        SW
----------------------

Examples:
~/Studio/Buffer/Inbox
~/Studio/Buffer/Outbox

So IE. in the map: ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project for a single song
project, you might find this files and project folders:
        rawfiles/
        mb32c-v3/
        ardour5
        rg1606/
        Notes
        some_refrencemovie.mp4
        some_refrencetrack.mp3

    So a Mixbus32C version 3.6 project will in this case be created
    in a folder like this:
        ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project/mb32c-v3/

And for an whole album, this structure above will come under folders like
this:
         ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project/trackname1
         ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project/trackname2 and so on
    No reason to have a track number, becauce thei'r no decided yes.

Yep, it's a lot of folders, but very easy to maintain, archive and eventually
open up again.

The Soundlib is done like this:

        ~/Studio/SoundLib/ByVendor/NaturalDrum/NDK/NDK-jostein/GIG

    And under ~/Studio/SoundLib, I have links to the most user libs like this:
    ~/Studio/SoundLib/ByCategory/Drums/NDK-jostein/GIG

    I got all my patches for softsynhs under her (sometimes linked
    to obscure places because a softsynth need to find patches elsewhere.

I started using this system 4 years ago and can now easily move and copy
projects to for example the laptop or opposite. And the same goes for backups
and archiving. I do not have to think anymore when using this system because
the files are always "in the same place"

Hope this helps or inspires a little bit.

Jostein

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Received on Fri Oct 14 16:15:02 2016