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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