What's your convention for importing sample libraries?

I'm wondering how my fellow square pushers prepare a sample library dump, as few libraries these days constrain their sample naming schemes to 8 characters. Im old school and try and stay up when I can, but renaming samples is like a 9 to 5, we only do it cause we have to. Any of you clever swordsmen have a more creative methodology of naming your samples in bulk batches, rather than editing every single sample? Im currently just copying and pasting each individual sample name in Aksys or worst yet, wheel scrolling my 4K to death. Im thinkin a sample editor or a python script before the dump? Maybe theres a simpler solution? Anyone doing anything like this? Just curious as I'd like to think there is a better way? Finally, big ups and much respect to my mentors and teachers on the forum, my humblest of thanks and gratitude for your roles in creating this monster. "Its alive" -- Kd

I dump my samples in Aksys..

But one thing that may make your situation less tedious is plugging a USB keyboard to your 4000 and type the file names instead using The jog wheel.

My rule is NO LOOP PACKS. saves me heaps of mucking around. Actually i do have a few drums libs of course from here and there. but as i usually only collect drum hits and as its never more than a few so i do it manually. I did want to try and dump some stuff on a Roland Fantom to check out its sampling and needed to change sample rates and names, so i borrowed an old copy of cubase 3 loaded em up in the media pool, renamed and exported to other bit and sample rate. But yeah as above there are a few batch edit tools out there.

Thanks guys, was just feeling around for alternatives, some really sharp cats here doing great work, so I just thought I'd poke around and see what work-arounds pushers were workin with.

@Lamp- Funny thing is I saw gold letters and was automatically getting offended lol. I'm like "ckrename" did I post twice?? Haha!! Lamp commin through!! Im not surprised though Lamp is most def OG. Haven't checked it out yet brother, but CKRename seems to be exactly what Im looking for !! Accolades to my favorite moderator!! Btw Lamp you using CKRename ?? PC platform means I gotta use a PC, not looking forward to that, I'm allergic. Thanks dog!

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for my drums samples I keep all backed up on my pc cause i go through a lot of mpc's and I just highlight them all right click, select "rename" type kick and the pc will add a number behind the rest of them, from there I jump drive em to the 4k, takes like 3 minutes at most.

Some really great input, thanks again fam !!!