**Naming Your Projects! (Does anyone have a great system?)

sid6581 · 2023-09-19T17:40:37.224Z

I use the following system, necessitated by using the bluebox to record stems (and now extended to everything else I use including synths, iPad sessions and bitwig projects:)

Date, tempo, revision of original (if applicable) as a letter.

It’s not very imaginative but it has massively helped me track stuff.

ramcmdr · 2023-09-19T17:41:13.594Z

YYYYMMDD [Setup] Title (or something descriptive if I can’t think of one). Including the setup makes it easier to sort it out into folders if I get enough material together to warrant it and also means I can remember what I was using if I wanted to try doing something similar again. ie

20230919 [M8] lovely amen

Could substitute [Setup] with an overall project name if you’re working on an album in a DAW for instance

Musement · 2023-09-19T17:41:48.708Z

Genre + type of performance (jam, sequences, suite, etc.) + key + BPM + version number (if rewritten)

The goal is to make sure I can still find and use it later if needed. Any time I try to name a song without lyrics it sounds unbearably corny after about three minutes, and I forget what was in it.

m0ld · 2023-09-19T18:43:23.751Z

I just use whatever word comes to mind. It’s a bit easier for me to remember what was in a project if I give it a name than it is to remember it by the date.

Lampmeister · 2023-09-19T18:47:31.365Z

Year-Month-Day-Genre-Mood.

Example:
2023-08-22-jazzyhiphop-sad.

Fin25 · 2023-09-19T18:47:53.619Z

Button mashing to hide my shame.

CCMP · 2023-09-19T18:48:28.841Z

zdfnzdfgtgtmrym

Fin25 · 2023-09-19T18:49:24.258Z

Indeed

Alienna · 2023-09-19T19:01:55.616Z

Finalfinalfinal2 etc…
harddrive crashed last week
Lost many of them

chrisroland · 2023-09-19T19:04:00.862Z

whatever the track’s name is i’m working on. that’s it. that’s the system

shigginpit · 2023-09-19T19:07:52.523Z

Alienna:

harddrive crashed last week

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the only civilized solution.

Alienna · 2023-09-19T19:09:15.400Z

Yes it’s all gone following this topic, want a better management for future projects…

twelon · 2023-09-19T19:12:08.490Z

Random Word Generator

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g3o2 · 2023-09-19T19:12:55.992Z

My naming system is as follows:

1CAP + YYMM + project name: captures which could become an idea, most loops go here, consists of max 1 song part;
2WRI + YYMM + project name: capture which turn into potential songs, consisting of more than 1 song part;
3ORG + YYMM + project name: song idea with a clear structure and several song parts;
4WRI + YYMM + project name: written song in pre-mix state;
5DEL + YYMM + project name: delivered / released song.

Project name after the ghost track’s name, the situation, the instrument, etc.

palm · 2023-09-19T19:16:01.995Z

ya I do the YMD and number for the day, as well +[gear by importance used, clocking piece first]. keeps shit in order in a really good way. NEVER understood MDY…makes no sense. fucks up chronology.

example: 230919 1 [gear] [gear] [fx]

CLEAN…

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HoldMyBeer · 2023-09-19T19:20:06.377Z

Alienna:

harddrive crashed last week
Lost many of them

Damn, I’m sorry to hear that. Is it possible to recover anything the hard drive? I had that happen years ago and lost a few things. It sucks.

Now, on top of using Time Machine, I install dropbox on all of my computers, and everything important like music, design, art, goes into dropbox so that it is always backed up/synced.

Suspect_Frequency · 2023-09-19T19:21:06.761Z

Date, tempo, followed by a name randomly chosen by flipping through the 1828 New Websters dictionary.

SoundReverend · 2023-09-19T19:50:58.834Z

As mentioned above, Date as 2023.09.19 so it sorts in a good way. And sometimes a stupid name.

I am really lucky it seems as I only do 5-6 ideas a months. Most stuff I just don’t save cause it’s crap

But out of these ideas I usually finish one song. And that is when it gets a stupid name.

Oh and for Ableton I create one Sub Folder for each month and then store the different ideas inside there.

palm · 2023-09-19T19:57:34.828Z

have redundancies…
ive got two externals I update with all the shit [projects, music] on my computer each month. two in case on dies, then I replace. [its happened]. it also keeps available space on the computer.

not that I have EVER gone back to anything ive done before. but I have it

petal · 2023-09-19T20:08:07.124Z

Not that I make many tracks, but I usually name them after, what’s been on my mind recently. It doesn’t have to be anything really special. It can just be something that you for some reason are focused on. After that, it’s just version numbers.

It also (have I found) a good way to pay homage to phases in your life