Thursday, 02 May 2019
I’ve made my MP3s and it’s time to name them. Is there a naming standard? What information should I include in the name?
There is no current universally accepted naming standard. It depends completely on how you have your files organized and what you want to put in the file name.
What does matter here is that, however you choose to name the files, you make sure that when you post them the artist-album-track#-track name all appear, but appear only once, in your post headers. If they are in the file name then they don’t need to be repeated again in the header. If any of the artist-album-track#-track name information is not in your filename then it needs to be added to the post header.
If you have the correct information in the ID3 tags and you post the correct information in the post header then it makes no difference from the point of view of sharing how you choose to name your files.
