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How do you keep all your files that pile up organized? There's so much to keep up with for the songs you write, mix and produce yourself. I need to do better and would like to know how y'all handle it. I'm hoping I can pick up some tips from you that I can use to have a better system that can make my life a little easier. Anyway thanks in advance to every one who shares. 
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I create a folder for each song. In that folder will be the BIAB version, the exported WAV files for each track, the Studio One DAW file and any lyrics/chord files I reference. If I need to make any changes, everything I need will be in that folder.
Rich
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I have a main folder called "music-files". Under that folder I have folders: "Projects", "Mixdowns" and "Masters". Under "Projects" I have folders for each year going back to 2009, and under each year folder I have a separate folder for each song I did that year. Each song folder has all the individual WAV files produced from BIAB, my guitar tracks, the vocal tracks, and sometimes the notebook file with the lyrics. Before I started using the year folders I dumped each song folder directly under "projects", amazing how quick that got to the point where it was hard to find stuff. The "Mixdown" folder gets the un-mastered mixes that I produce with reaper (I like to keep the mix process and the master process as two separate things although I could do it all in one shot with reaper, works best for me). The "Masters" folder has a sub folder, "MP3". When I master a track, the input file comes from the Mixdown directory, and the mastered WAV file goes to the Masters directory. I also produce an MP3 (for uploading to sites that require MP3) that goes to the MP3 sub folder. Likewise for the main \bb directory I have the BIAB songs organized under sub folders by year. When I render out the individual WAV files from a BIAB project, the WAV files go to one of the song file folders described above. Works for me anyway
Last edited by BlueAttitude; 07/21/18 01:29 AM. Reason: more info
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All lyrics are in Apple Pages.
All SGUs are in an iMac folder.
The specific DAW file and all associated tracks are encapsulated by Logic Pro X into one file in our iMac Logic folder.
All photos for SC and iMovie video production files are in their respective folders under a primary iMac media folder.
All of the above is backed up to iCloud and a local hard drive several times a day via Apple’s Time Machine. The local hard drive is swapped out monthly and kept in our safety deposit box.
Might seem convoluted but works for us.
Bud
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Same as Takamine one folder one song.
Biab copy midi etc, separate wave tracks and lyric sheet, chord sheet.
Name the folder same as the song, I even put junk lyrics of the song in the folder everything relating to the song.
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I have one folder per song and everything goes in there. I have only one wav file and one mp3 of the final song so I always know that is what can be distributed if needed.
If I am busy on an album I will have another folder building up with the final masters of the songs.
Everything thing gets automatically backed up several times a day to amazon drive (very good value at $60 per year for 1 terabyte).
As soon as in am done with a song or album I delete it from my hard drive.
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Folders upon folders upon folders. I used to have a really bad habit of poorly naming and organizing my files. I've gotten much better thankfully. I just clearly and concisely name everything. I have folders for my stems, folders for completed projects, folders for miscellaneous work, etc.
Cheers,
Deryk
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I haven't always been the best at organizing my music files. I'm still working on it actually, but I try to make a master file for each year and then folders inside that for genres or songwriting projects and then each song has a file. Right now everything I am doing is for the 50/90 songwriting challenge so it all goes a bit like this "Recording Files - Cubase Projects - 2018 - 5090 - (song name)." Then all my finished recordings follow a similar format in my music library but without separate folders for each song (Although I probably should use separate folders.)
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While working on a song or project (learning the hard way), I have a folder named Work In Progress where all related files are temporarily stored.
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