I’ve written about some of these file issues before.

https://hugh.thejourneyler.org/2012/the-workflow-management-for-linguists/

https://hugh.thejourneyler.org/2012/the-data-management-space-for-linguists/

https://hugh.thejourneyler.org/2012/resources-for-digitizing-audio-as-part-of-archiving/

https://hugh.thejourneyler.org/2011/presentation-version-vs-archival-version-of-digital-audio-files/