File Names not changing from Audacity and other programs?

[happydog500]

I recorded a bunch of talks. Battery's went dead on a couple. A friend recorded the same talks, so she gave me the two files I needed to make mine complete.

I took her files, made them better in Audacity, saved them in the folder with all the rest.

Each file, after the icon, has the name of the file. Her two has two names, one right underneath the other. One with my named file, and her named file.

I exported the file with one name. How come it still lists her name as well?

I noticed this in itunes with other files. If I go in to a folder, rename the files, then open them up in itunes, they are listed as the old file name, even tho I renamed them before I put them in itunes.

Mostly, I'm concerned with both file names when looking at them in windows explorer. The itunes part is just remembering that is does this in different programs.

What is it about audio files that once you name them something, it doesn't want to change, even if you edit it and change the file, with a different name?


Thank you for any replies,
Chris.

[jagabo]

I exported the file with one name. How come it still lists her name as well?

Because it Audacity doesn't delete the original file when you save with a new filename or extension.

[happydog500]

Why would they make it do this?
This is very stupid. I added, took away stuff. It's not the same file. Any way to not have it give two names?

Thank you,
Chris.

[kpa]

A computer program can not know what your intentions with the original file are, that's why it is treating the old and the new files completely different objects with no relation between them. Just delete the old file after saving the new one.

[jagabo]

Does any program, in any genre, delete your original file when you save with a new name? I don't know of any. The whole point of saving with a new name is to create a new file while leaving the original intact. Save the file with the same filename if you want to get rid of the old file. Or just delete the old file manually.

[happydog500]

Every program I've ever used doesn't keep the old file name. I already deleted the files.

If I have a picture named, icd034, I crop and re size it, then save it as, "Me Swiming", the next time I go to it, it is still named, "Me Swiming".

If I download a program, "00485784", but I name it, "New Version of XYZ", when I go back to it, I see, "New Version of XYZ".

I think maybe I had, a long time a go, a download that wouldn't let me rename it. But, most all files I've ever used, I can rename it and it will then be what I named it.


If I have 10 songs I name, 001, 002, 003, 004, ect... that's the order they show up in. EVERY PROGRAM I've ever used, will put them in the right order, plus, will only have one name, the one I gave it.

When I do them in Audacity, from then on, will sow up, 001, 003, 002.005, 004, ect... because before I renamed it 002, it was 003.


"The whole point of saving with a new name is to create a new file while leaving the original intact."

I just realized you may of misunderstood what I was saying. The new file, has the new name, and the old one, within the same file with no way to change it.

If I edit and rename 003, as, 002, the one, new file, will show up as,
002
003

I can't get the old file name from under the new name, in the same file name. In itunes, it will put them in order by the old file name, not the new one.

I do have problems sometimes explaining things, so sorry if I couldn't do a good job.

Thank you,
Chris.

[jagabo]

You are talking about meta data within the file, not file names. When you export from Audacity it first gives you dialog where you can change the metadata. Does the filename show up in that dialog? If so, change it there, then continue on with saving with the new filename.

As I understand it, itunes doesn't get along well with other programs modifying files in its folders. I believe you need to save your new file in another location then import it into itunes.

[happydog500]

Thank you for the info on metadata.

The data was the same as the file. I needed to change the number. The thing I have now, not that it will effect the order, but it bugs me.

If I open up the folder, each file has the name, once. The two files I got, have two names, the same, but double. Any way to get rid of this?

Example;

Icon
001 file name one
001 file name one

Icon
002 file name two

icon
003 file name three

Icon
004 file name four
004 file name four

One and four are the files I got, then modified and saved. They have two names under the icon, when I look at them in Windows Explorer.

Anything I can do to make all the files look the same?

Thank you,
Chris.

[Gavino]

Anything I can do to make all the files look the same?

From Explorer menu 'View', select 'Choose Details...' and uncheck 'Title'.
Or possibly some other field in that list that is being shown.

[happydog500]

just the basics are checked. I want the titles to show up, just want one each title.