Harley’s Rules to file naming for new karaoke creators

This portion skips the specific “whys” of what to do

Take your brand name & use initials or whatever is not taken. 3 is best, 4+ is fine

Examples:

  • BREZ

  • PEAR

  • ESK

  • C11K

Numbering

Start with 0001, and increment by 1 every song. Any change, such as duets, solos, key changes, with backing vocals, without backing vocals, all get their own track.

Artist - Title. Keep it all that way.

Artist Notes

Anything that has to do with Singing the song, such as it’s a duet, or backing vocals go on the artist side

With backing vocals should be (Wbgv), Without backing vocals should be (Wobgv) after the Artist

Examples:

  • BREZ-0184 - Lilith Czar (Wbgv) - Anarchy

  • BREZ-0206 - Demi Lovato (Solo) - Eat Me

Song Notes

Anything that has to do with the music, such as “Live” or “acoustic” or “Remix” goes with the song

Examples:

  • BREZ-0061 - Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother (Live)

  • BREZ-0028 - Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey (Live)

Any Information you want to add about the song goes at the end, explicit version, alternative lyrics, advanced karaoke version, etc etc

Example:

  • BREZ-0040 - Jonathan Coulton - First Of May (Live) (Explicit)

Songs that include another song, such as combining them because they go together should be “Artist - Song+Song”

Example:

  • BREZ-0042 - Stone Temple Pilots - Wet My Bed+Crackerman

Capitalization

Capitalize all first letters - Exception - Keeping original formatting the band goes by is acceptable.

“The” Handling

Delete all “The” That begin the Artist field (Exceptions “The Who” & “The The”)

Move all songs that start with “The” to the end of the title,

Example:

  • BREZ-0084 - The Scarlet Opera - The Place To Be Bad

  • BREZ-0084 - Scarlet Opera - Place To Be, The Good

Artists with “The” in the middle of the name have no change

Example:

  • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Songs that are only 2 words remain unchanged, Songs with more than 2 words, move “The” to the end - “, The”

Example:

  • Band - The Gold Good

  • Band - Gold Watch, The Good

Keep all punctuation - Except commas (excluding “, The”)

Use & for “And”

Use & for “Featuring”, “Feat.” or anything like that

Example:

  • BREZ-0209 - Meghan Trainor feat. T Pain - Been Like This (Duet) Bad

  • BREZ-0209 - Meghan Trainor & T-Pain (Duet) - Been Like This Good

Folder Numbering

Folders should be Brand-0001-0099, then every 100 after

Example:

  • BREZ-0001-0099

  • BREZ-0100-0199

Missing Entries

If you found that you numbered incorrectly, add a text file to cover the gap when you notice it

Example:

  • BREZ-0032 - Missing.txt