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Customizing File Names and Metadata

As described in the previous section, the default Strata file name convention uses a set of five name blocks. By default, file names don’t include any UserCategory or UserData values, but you can add these blocks yourself if you need to add some information in the file name that the default naming convention doesn’t include.

To maintain a UCS file name, ensure that you add the blocks in the correct locations with the correct delimiters in the following format:

CatID-UserCategory_VendorCategory-FXName_CreatorID_SourceID_UserData

Because REAPER generates file names based on the string specified in the black Base Data Region String, you can set explicit values in the data region string to propagate those values to both file names as well as metadata.

To add UserCategory and UserData values to file names:

  1. Expand the Region Marker Manager, which is docked at the bottom of the REAPER interface.

  2. Double-click the black data region name. The region name string uses the following format: CategoryFull=;Category=;SubCategory=;CatID=G;UserCategory=;VendorCategory=;SourceID=;UserData=;Explanations=;Synonyms=;OpenTier=;

  3. Position the cursor after the desired block and add a value with the appropriate delimiter:

    • For UserCategory, use the following format: UserCategory=- <MyCategory MyName>; For example: UserCategory=-FPS;

    • For UserData, use the following format: UserData=_ <MyData MyNumber>; For example: UserData=_Version 1.00;

  4. Press Enter. The specified values appear in the file names of every region you subsequently render into audio files. For example, if you render a region from the Historical Firearms collection with the sample values from the previous step, the name of a rendered file would resemble the following, with the UserCategory and UserData values in bold: GUNAntq -FPS_Pistol Muzzleloader-Shot 01 Composite_AKB00M_Historical Firearms_ version 1.00.wav

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