question about labeling a bunch of wav.s

I am trying to find a better way to organize my collection of sounds. The way I'm doing it right now is taking forever going through the kits one by one and renaming,deleting and numbering sounds, For example changing sound115 to SN 1, SN 2, etc.

Then block copying them into one big folder. Organizing them using the right click folder options to separate them. Then copying the separated sounds to a new individual folders snares,kicks,hats etc.

Is there a piece of software available that will allow me to preview sounds and auto label the sounds within a numerical range? Or maybe just a better way of doing it?

Like Highlight my sounds make prefix of SN then it automaticly labels and numbers the other sounds? I hope this makes sense.

I'm using soundforge 6 currently to preview and edit my sounds

There's a thing called "batch process" in peak that will probably rename the files for you, but you're still going to have to listen to and organize them into the correct folder. I'm sure all hi-end wave editors have the batch function.

I know soundforge 8 has something like that. I tried using that did'nt work too well for me so I went back to version 6.

if not, wavelab does have batchprocessing.

.Toon

BYN wrote:I know soundforge 8 has something like that. I tried using that did'nt work too well for me so I went back to version 6.

SF8 has batch processing and it works wonderfully.
tools menu
batch converter
fill out the "metadata" and all your files will have
that data embedded into each wave.

For batch renaming try
http://www.musicsucks.com/CKSoft/CKRename/

I use it ALOT when naming samples 8 characters or less when transfer from pc to 2kxl. It's free and it shows you how the future file will look when renamed. Did mention it's free?

i'll check it out thanks for the info dog

here is also a program you may want to try its also free to download , it seems to be only for windows.


Loop Horse 2.00 ( free Download )
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Mult ... Horse.html

Loop Horse is a media manager specifically designed for organising and bulk copying files. Files can be ‘auditioned’ and then cued up for copying in one go. The files can be copied from multiple locations on your hard drive, external media or in zip/rar archives

Don't forget CK Rename.

http://www.musicsucks.com/CKSoft/CKRename/index.htm

I use this ALL the time, it's free and fast working. I use it mainly to change multiple MPC wav samples names to 8 characters. You know for the whole fat16 transfer deal.