Yeah, very good advice. However, I’d really like to pick up on the date naming format – It’s essential! All my contemporaries think I’m mad date stamping all files Year/Month/Day format – but it’s absolutely brilliant, and possibly my favourite method for storing multiple tracks/samples/’masters’ (esp. if you to multiple mixes in one/two days and include time data as well) – it’s an awesome time saver!

I do the same with files I receive, so although I may have multiple files with approximately the same name, it’s very quick to separate out ‘Song Name – 080809 – ProducerA Mix’ from ‘Song Name – 080815 – Quick Master’ – named, date stamped, described.