How to tidy up your sermon recordings

Recordings often arrive with names like ‘sunday_am_final_v2.mp3’, and those names end up on your website unless someone tidies them. Two minutes of housekeeping makes your sermon library look cared for.

Tidying a recording

1. Look at your sermons page as a visitor would: click a recording and see what the media player shows. Unfriendly file names and titles stand out immediately.
2. Log in to your web office and find the recording on the group’s Media tab; the quick find at the top of the screen helps if you know its name.
3. Click the recording to open it and check the title reads well: the sermon’s name, not a filename.
4. Expand the Files section and rename each file to something plain: ‘Sermon Audio’, ‘Sermon Video’, ‘Sermon Notes’.
5. While you’re there, check the speaker and date are filled in; they’re what people scan on the sermons page.

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Good to know

• Renaming a file’s display name doesn’t change the actual file, so nothing breaks.
• The easiest fix is prevention: name things properly during upload and this guide becomes redundant.