Organization of Recent Files

[Halo Serene]

Here's a strange question for you. I am working on several projects (which are intended to be albums or at least to be groups of related songs). So for each of these, there will be possibly many recent files for each song in each project, which are different versions that I want to keep (at least until the songs have been released). This means I have an awful lot of entries in the Recent List which are kind of a pain to scroll through.

Is there any way to have folders (or maybe tabs) in the Recent List so that recent list entries can be organised more usefully?

 

[Vocalpoint]

Is there any way to have folders (or maybe tabs) in the Recent List so that recent list entries can be organised more usefully?

When I am in "version" mode - I create folders in the Songs tab and organize there instead.

 

[chichogp]

Next to the Recent Files tab there's Song/Project/Show. If you go into one of these tabs there's a little folder icon with a + that says "new folder". DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE BEFORE KNOWING WHAT IT DOES.

Looking at the icon you would logically think these "folders" are a tool for organizing just the shortcuts to your recent sessions, and you'd be wrong. What this feature does is create a new actual folder on your hard drive and move the whole song folder there. It's a nice tool for organizing your actual files in a big project such as an album, but if you use it retroactively you'll probably just make a mess depending on how your sessions and files are organized, specially if your session includes stuff from outside its folder.

If you already have a lot of projects going on your best option for now is to pin the active sessions and use the Save to New Version function instead of Save As. When you save to a new session you end up with only one .song file and you can access all versions by right clicking on its shortcut on the Recent Files tab. I don't recommend using the folder thing at this stage, but if you want to take the risk you can make a new song project, record on a couple of audio tracks and do a test to see how it works.

 

[Halo Serene]

Thanks, apologies for not gtting back sooner. Looks like I'm going to have to do more thinking about how I'm organising things, I guess

 

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Tip: Don't overthink the Recent Files list, as it is just that. I'd even clear it every once in a while.

Probably it's more important to organise the actual location of your songs on your drive(s). That you can organise as you see fit, and you can open any song from Studio One's/your computer's taskbar via File/Open...