How to rename samples

Imagine my disappointment when I found out about this. Files cannot be renamed after you have added them. Even using a computer.

I don’t expect any improvement of this functionality. Just know that you need to prepare all the files and their names in advance.

Is this a wish?

It’s more like basic needs. I’m sure the developers are aware of this flaw. However, there’s no point in waiting.

You can make a copy of a sample and save it with a new name on a computer though. Not difficult.

No way to move a sample to another folder either.

No need to copy a file. Just locate a sample in the samples folder inside a project folder. It will have a name like ‘072_old_sample_name.wav’. Rename it like ‘072_new_sample_name.wav’. When you load the project in the Play, the sample name will change accordingly.

If I make copies of files, rename and overwrite them, how will the project know which files to use for the project?

Direct renaming on the computer does not reflect in the project.

I need to prepare the project for export, and it should have nice and correct names inside. Right now, I can’t do that.

It does. See my message above.

I did that. It doesn’t help. The project displays the old file names despite them being renamed on the computer.

Ah! As I understand it, I need to load the folder into the project again after renaming?

I think that’s because you load your project from the workspace folder.

I don’t really understand your instructions. It’s not working for me

If a project in which you want to rename a sample is the last opened project in Play, you should rename the sample file in workspace/samples.
The sample will have a name like ‘NNN abcd.wav’ where NNN is three digits. You should not change those. But anything after can be changed.

I’m pretty sure it’s working.

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Thank you for the detailed instructions with images. I finally understand.

I assume that the workspace is what resides in the “active” memory of the Polyend Play, if we can call it that. So, you need to change the file names not in the project folder, but in the “workspace” folder.

However, this means that to change file names in any project, you first need to load the project so that it appears in the workspace.

In short: no.

When you open a project on your Play, it deletes everything in workspace folder and copies the project content, including samples, into workspace. The project now has two states - a ‘saved’ state in Projects/Your project name and ‘current’ state in workspace folder.
Conversely, when you save the project, workspace folder gets copied back to Projects/Your project name.
There can be the only active project at any time. All other projects have only one ‘saved’ state in the Projects folder.
To rename a sample in the active project, you have to do so in workspace directory.
To rename a sample in another project, you simply go to the project folder (Projects/Your project name/samples) and rename it there. Next time you open the project, Play will ‘see’ your sample renaming.

So, does this mean that we just needed to reopen the project after renaming the files, and the workspace folder has nothing to do with it?

Damn, I spent a whole day on the forum just to figure out how to rename files and find a way to do it. Thank you, Polyend :rofl:

I find the renaming of the forum topic unfair. Moreover, you are hiding the problem from the developers as if it doesn’t exist. At the moment, there is no option to directly rename file names in Polyend Play. The fact that we spent the whole day searching for workarounds is not a good example. This is not a normal user experience and should not be a guideline.

Then name it fairly: Play does not support file renaming, but there are workarounds to achieve it.

You can do that, but using titles like “Hello i like to tell a story about…” as title is misleading. A good title should be spot-on and not story telling…

And if it is a bug or wish, then you can tag it like that, yes?