Ray DogI am such a nerd. I have spent roughly the past 2 hours organizing a folder of recordings dating back to 2013, which I will probably not listen to much in the future, if at all. but still I am organizing them now so that they are structured like my current files. This is what it looks like when my OCD comes out. Lol
@musicalman I would do that, in fact I have done, exactly this, it's why my original music is sorted by year, because of one night in 2015 when I discovered it was taking windows far too long to populate a directory when I entered it. it was like, wo an entire 2 seconds to go through this folder?
@dodecahedron Lol yeah that's a big reason I try to use folders more now. Let me tell you though, it's stupid anoying when I extract soething and it gives me a folder of like, 60,000 or more files that I have to portion out nicely.
In this particular case though, that wasn't the issue. This time I'm just renaming call recordings. If I recorded a call with you in 2013, I would have saved it as, alexander1.1, and alexander1.2. The first number is the call recording number so I can keep them in chronological order, the second number is which file it is (since I like recording each thing to a separate file when possible). I wanted to put the date in, but was too lazy back then to check the date and write it in.
In 2018, I stopped being quite so lazy and started naming them like this: alexander1 mar 16 2013a, and alexander1 mar 16 2013b. In other words, I started putting the date in the file name, and using letters at the end. A is always my side. If there's no letter, then it's a conference call, where everything is in one file.
Probably the hardest part of renaming the old files is putting the dates in. Fortunately most of them have a correct date for last modified, so I can go by that. I feel a lot safer having the date in the name, though.
@musicalman I would record things individually but I also like to hear the entire recording as one thing. I don't have the space to keep 2 coppies of the recording so often time si just keep the summed recording. But I love that you keep both sides in case you want to isolate something.
@dodecahedron Yeah when I record from TT, I actually keep both. One file with everything together, and separate files for isolations. Trouble is, back in 2013 ish, most of the stuff I recorded was on Skype, Face Time and stuff like that, and I didn't know how to get fancy. All I could think of was just use two gold waves. Control f9 on one, alt tab, control f9 on the other, and bam, I'm recording everything. That kinda forced me to keep things separated, and it... Wasn't ideal. Syncing those files to put the whole recording back together is a real bastard. If I could've used OBS, or Audio Capture, it would've made things so so much easier. Lol
@musicalman hine sight is 2026, I mean 2013? I mean...
@dodecahedron Yeah something like that. Except most of the shit I use now didn't exist in 2013, or if it did, it would've been a lot more limited/harder to use, so there's that. God when I listen to some of that old stuff I almost want to just delete it... It incriminate sme in some aspects and I just can't bare listening to it. But I can't. It's truly irreplaceable stuff.
@musicalman I have skype recordings like that, I have old h1 recordings like that, I literally have a good portion of the last 15 years recorded, maybe not entire full days, but, a good portion of my life has been captured, for better or worse. Call it a living pensive
@dodecahedron Yeah me too. Sometimes when I look back at my old stuff, I go through the same emotins that I bet people with body image issues feel like. I'm too tall, I'm too fat, I'm too whatever, except for me, it's too nerdy, too hyper/silly, too crazy about x y z. Like I know if I were in that situation now in 2026 I would've acted way differently.
@musicalman exactly exactly oh my days and nights this!