Seeking Feedback
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:58 am
For a few years the church has operated under a file naming standard that produces filenames for digital audio and video available over the internet like these:
ENSN_2007_09_09_AshtonMJ_OneForTheMoney_00609_eng_009.mp3
GC_2008_10_400_Complete_SundayMorningSession_04903_eng_.mp3
GC_2008_10_401_NowLetUsRejoice__04903_eng_.mp3
We have received feedback that these filenames are too long and have a lot of information that is not meaningful to users. When this filename standard was created it was created under the premise that no two files would have the same name so that theoretically someone could download all of the files into the same directory and this not have conflicts. When considering how we could shorten these filenames, we came to the conclusion that we had to eliminate this premise in order to come up with shorter filenames.
We are proposing a new standard that would change the above filenames to these filenames:
0009-one-for-the-money-eng.mp3
0400-third-general-session-eng.mp3
0401-now-let-us-rejoice-eng.mp3
Where the first segment is a four digit number used to sequence the files, the middle segment is the title, and the last segment is a language code. All of the data that was previously available in the filenames will still be available in the metadata. We feel that this is a good solution that takes care of all needs.
We would like your feedback about these new filenames. Do you see any possible problems users may have? Is there anything we are overlooking?
Thanks,
JD Russell
Web Media
ENSN_2007_09_09_AshtonMJ_OneForTheMoney_00609_eng_009.mp3
GC_2008_10_400_Complete_SundayMorningSession_04903_eng_.mp3
GC_2008_10_401_NowLetUsRejoice__04903_eng_.mp3
We have received feedback that these filenames are too long and have a lot of information that is not meaningful to users. When this filename standard was created it was created under the premise that no two files would have the same name so that theoretically someone could download all of the files into the same directory and this not have conflicts. When considering how we could shorten these filenames, we came to the conclusion that we had to eliminate this premise in order to come up with shorter filenames.
We are proposing a new standard that would change the above filenames to these filenames:
0009-one-for-the-money-eng.mp3
0400-third-general-session-eng.mp3
0401-now-let-us-rejoice-eng.mp3
Where the first segment is a four digit number used to sequence the files, the middle segment is the title, and the last segment is a language code. All of the data that was previously available in the filenames will still be available in the metadata. We feel that this is a good solution that takes care of all needs.
We would like your feedback about these new filenames. Do you see any possible problems users may have? Is there anything we are overlooking?
Thanks,
JD Russell
Web Media