Filing Systems

Question

Hey everyone,
I am getting to the point where I have a lot of projects going. Some of them are just little ideas floating around, some are actual projects. I have created a fairly simple system to categorize them so that I can access them quickly now. My question to the group is this:
When you are doing multiple mixes/bouncing down multiple songs/importing exporting for mastering/anything that requires swapping of files...how do you track what is what? Do you keep all the songs incarnations in a specific folder or is there a naming system that you use and do global searches to find matches? I am toying with a bunch of different ideas so any insight would be helpful.
-mike

Answer 1

NAME everything.
Remember,NAME is the most important thing.You might not use PC as a Mac, they can't treat me as mikey10101....
My practise will be:~
1)Create a Folder (name as Mactreouser Album)
2)Inside the Folder with create a few folder (name as Music Arrangement,Mixing,Mastering,
for example)
3)In the Music Arrangement Folder contain all my Arrangement and Tracking projects (Song 01 ,Song
02, Song 03...)
4)Save the Mixing Project into Mixing Folder and Every Bounce from the Mixing will go into the
folder of Mixing and name the Bounced Audio as Song01.1...Song01.2...and so on...easy to
monitor/audition every Mix for the Song
5)When come to the Mastering Stage,is the same,Save every project and Bounce the Audio files into
Mastering Folder and name as above for Audition.
set up your path then you'll not confuse to your messey titled files and folder
huh..do i clear enough?haaa...sorry for the poor english.. :P
cheers