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COVID-19 still has us quarantined which has lead to coming up with ways to be more organized. With the extra time, my main focus has been labeling files from songs that I've mixed or produced. Now that I have a new standard, I felt I'd share it with you guys.
I find this new standard to work when sending files to other parties. It's a clear cut way for someone to know exactly what is what. I start out with what category a file belongs to. That is then enclosed in brackets and the name of the file comes after. For instance a snare would be named as "[DRUM] Snare"

The categories I use are:

[DRUM]
[PERCUSSION]
[LOW END]
[FX]
[VOCAL] ​

This will cover quite a bit but come up with whatever works for you.

​The main reason I like to have the category first is that all like files stay together. Without the brackets drum files would be all over the folder they reside in. This way is very clean and easy on the eyes. See below for a before and after view.
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That's it for this month folks. I have to get back to mixing! Until next time, it’s ‘Tool.