Name captures after their source track: label and filename both, on every interactive mint site, and show the name on the panel card

src/app/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ add_library(reaper_reasampler MODULE
     ${REASAMPLER_SRC_DIR}/shell/actions/instrument_drop_win.cpp
     ${REASAMPLER_SRC_DIR}/shell/persist/usage_scan.cpp
 )
-target_link_libraries(reaper_reasampler PRIVATE json wire file_bytes bank_model capture_paths peaks bank_grid mode_switch tab_strip view_mode_model view_tree guid_diff lane_keys solo_cache insert_plan render_settings render_window track_topology batch_capture tail_control capture_realtime bank_book wav_codec origin_ledger tracking_authority prune_reconcile prune_button app_version provenance drag_out instrument_drop theme component_geometry action_bar footer_bar overflow_menu mode_enable tooltip card_meta card_drag assignment_request bank_sync sample_usage bake_wire resample_name)
+target_link_libraries(reaper_reasampler PRIVATE json wire file_bytes bank_model capture_paths capture_name peaks bank_grid mode_switch tab_strip view_mode_model view_tree guid_diff lane_keys solo_cache insert_plan render_settings render_window track_topology batch_capture tail_control capture_realtime bank_book wav_codec origin_ledger tracking_authority prune_reconcile prune_button app_version provenance drag_out instrument_drop theme component_geometry action_bar footer_bar overflow_menu mode_enable tooltip card_meta card_drag assignment_request bank_sync sample_usage bake_wire resample_name)
 # NOT linked here, deliberately: sampler_core / pitch_shift / the filter. The instrument
 # renders its own bake in its own process, which is what keeps the extension's link graph
 # free of the voice engine — a link edge to it here means the design drifted.

src/core/capture/CLAUDE.md

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Detail specific to these pure modules:
 - `capture_realtime` (`core/capture`, **renamed from `realtime_record` in Q-W3** — the Q-9 naming rider: pure module takes the stem, the shell takes the suffix, matching `drag_out`/`drag_out_win`) — the M8 realtime-record pure logic: capture scope + FX-tap point → `I_RECMODE`/`I_RECMODE_FLAGS` values, wet/dry → tap point, the recorded-file → `Sample` mapping, and the async record-phase state machine. Depends on `bank_model` for the plain `Sample`/`SourceMode` types. The transport/temp-track/send recipe lives in the shell (`shell/capture/capture_realtime_shell.cpp` + `capture_realtime_finalize.cpp`).
 - `batch_capture` — pure batch-capture planner: maps source ranges to capture units and aggregates results.
 - `capture_paths` — the REAPER-free path arithmetic behind offline capture: bank-subfolder + unique-filename derivation (`deriveBankPaths`, forward-slash form, no filesystem touch), the absolute-render-dir vs. project-relative-index-path split (`BankPaths`), the persist-side inverse (`resolveBankFile`, `projectDirOfRpp`), the Save-As bank-relocation plan (`deriveRelocationPlan`), and the GUID-primary project-identity classifier (`classifyProjectTransition` → `NoOp`/`Load`/`SaveAsRelocate`) the persist-poll timer drives.
+- `capture_name` — the REAPER-free composition of one capture's label + file-stem base from its source-track name(s), a local-calendar discriminator (`MM-DD HHMM`, from the shell's clock read), and an optional batch ordinal. The label and the stem deliberately diverge: the stem still passes through `capture_paths::sanitizeStem` (so a name that sanitizes to nothing files as `capture`), while the label keeps the source name verbatim. Stem uniqueness stays entirely `makeUniqueTag`'s — this module never disambiguates.
 - `insert_plan` — the REAPER-free logic behind the `insert` shell (M6): computes the `InsertMedia` `mode` bitmask from an `InsertOptions` struct (placement target, tempo-conform ratio, preserve-pitch flag), guaranteeing the &4 stretch-to-time-selection bit is never set and that no tempo bits are set when `conform == None`.
 - `render_settings` — the REAPER-free logic behind the capture action family: `SourceMode` → `RENDER_SETTINGS` bit mapping, `P_RAZOREDITS` string parsing + range-union bounds, razor-else-time range inference, the FX-scope bypass plan (`fxBypassPlanFor`), the tail-mode → `RENDER_TAILFLAG`/`RENDER_NORMALIZE`/`RENDER_TRIMEND` mapping (`tailRenderSettingsFor`) and its realtime-window analog (`realtimeRecordWindowEnd`), and the capture-action taxonomy table (`captureActionTable`) `main.cpp` iterates to register the CAPTURE_ITEM/CAPTURE_TRACK family.
 - `render_window` — the REAPER-free frame arithmetic behind exact capture bounds: `frameCountFor` (the frame count a project-time window occupies at the project rate — the number the offline backend checks the rendered file against before landing it, so a widened render is refused rather than banked) and `itemExtentPrintsWindow`, the predicate `render_settings::sourceModeForScope` consults to decide whether REAPER's selected-items render source can express a requested window at all.

src/core/capture/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 reasampler_pure_library(capture_paths SOURCES capture_paths.cpp)
 reasampler_test(capture_paths LINK capture_paths)
 
+reasampler_pure_library(capture_name SOURCES capture_name.cpp)
+# capture_paths: the stem base's real contract is that sanitizeStem keeps it legal, so the
+# name tests assert the composed stem THROUGH the sanitizer rather than in isolation.
+reasampler_test(capture_name LINK capture_name capture_paths)
+
 reasampler_pure_library(insert_plan SOURCES insert_plan.cpp)
 reasampler_test(insert_plan LINK insert_plan)
 

src/core/capture/capture_name.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+// capture_name — pure implementation. See the header.
+
+#include "core/capture/capture_name.h"
+
+#include <cstdio>
+
+namespace reasampler::capture {
+
+namespace {
+
+// A track name padded with spaces would render ragged in the label and as underscores in
+// the stem, so both ends are trimmed before anything else looks at it.
+std::string trimmed(const std::string& s) {
+    std::size_t b = 0;
+    std::size_t e = s.size();
+    auto isSpace = [](unsigned char c) {
+        return c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\r' || c == '\n';
+    };
+    while (b < e && isSpace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[b]))) ++b;
+    while (e > b && isSpace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[e - 1]))) --e;
+    return s.substr(b, e - b);
+}
+
+// Truncating mid-sequence would put invalid UTF-8 into the persisted label, so the cut
+// backs off over continuation bytes (10xxxxxx). The stem does not care — sanitizeStem
+// replaces every non-ASCII byte anyway — but one rule for both keeps them the same name.
+std::string truncateUtf8(const std::string& s, std::size_t maxBytes) {
+    if (s.size() <= maxBytes) return s;
+    std::size_t cut = maxBytes;
+    while (cut > 0 && (static_cast<unsigned char>(s[cut]) & 0xC0) == 0x80) --cut;
+    return s.substr(0, cut);
+}
+
+int clampTo(int v, int lo, int hi) { return v < lo ? lo : (v > hi ? hi : v); }
+
+} // namespace
+
+std::string formatCaptureStamp(const CaptureStamp& stamp) {
+    if (stamp.month < 1 || stamp.day < 1) return {};
+    char buf[24];
+    std::snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%02d-%02d %02d%02d",
+                  clampTo(stamp.month, 1, 12), clampTo(stamp.day, 1, 31),
+                  clampTo(stamp.hour, 0, 23), clampTo(stamp.minute, 0, 59));
+    return buf;
+}
+
+CaptureName composeCaptureName(const CaptureNameInputs& in) {
+    std::string base;
+    int named = 0;
+    for (const std::string& raw : in.sourceNames) {
+        const std::string n = trimmed(raw);
+        if (n.empty()) continue;
+        if (base.empty()) base = n;
+        ++named;
+    }
+    if (base.empty()) base = trimmed(in.fallback);
+    if (base.empty()) base = "capture";
+    base = truncateUtf8(base, kMaxSourceNameBytes);
+
+    CaptureName out;
+    out.label    = base;
+    out.stemBase = base;
+
+    // Several sources collapse onto the first one's name plus a count of the rest — the
+    // alternative (joining every name) produces a stem no one can read and a label that
+    // no longer fits a card.
+    if (named > 1) {
+        const std::string extra = std::to_string(named - 1);
+        out.label    += " +" + extra;
+        out.stemBase += "+" + extra;
+    }
+
+    if (in.ordinal > 0) {
+        const std::string ord = std::to_string(in.ordinal);
+        out.label    += " #" + ord;
+        out.stemBase += "-" + ord;
+    }
+
+    const std::string stamp = formatCaptureStamp(in.stamp);
+    if (!stamp.empty()) out.label += " " + stamp;
+
+    return out;
+}
+
+} // namespace reasampler::capture

src/core/capture/capture_name.h

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#pragma once
+// capture_name — the REAPER-free composition of one capture's label and file-stem base
+// from its source-track name(s), a local-calendar discriminator, and an optional batch
+// ordinal. The shell reads the names and the clock; the SHAPE of a capture's name is
+// decided here so it is testable without a DAW.
+
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace reasampler::capture {
+
+// The capture's own moment, already broken down into LOCAL calendar fields by the shell.
+// Passing fields rather than an epoch is what keeps the format deterministic under test:
+// an epoch would render differently per machine timezone. month < 1 or day < 1 means
+// "no stamp" and suppresses the discriminator entirely.
+struct CaptureStamp {
+    int month  = 0;   // 1-12
+    int day    = 0;   // 1-31
+    int hour   = 0;   // 0-23
+    int minute = 0;   // 0-59
+};
+
+// Longest source-name prefix kept in either the label or the stem. Real track names sit
+// far under it; the bound exists so a pathological name cannot push the rendered file
+// path toward the platform's limit, and so a label and its file still read as the same
+// name.
+inline constexpr std::size_t kMaxSourceNameBytes = 64;
+
+struct CaptureNameInputs {
+    // Source-track names in source order — the first non-empty one names the capture,
+    // the rest only contribute the "+N" multi-source marker.
+    std::vector<std::string> sourceNames;
+
+    CaptureStamp stamp;
+
+    // Batch unit ordinal; <= 0 for a single capture.
+    int ordinal = 0;
+
+    // The scope literal ("item"/"track"/"realtime"), used ONLY when no source name
+    // resolved at all — otherwise the source name wins.
+    std::string fallback = "capture";
+};
+
+struct CaptureName {
+    // Sample::displayName. Legible, carries the source name verbatim, and is explicitly
+    // NOT unique (core/model/CLAUDE.md §resample_name) — the stamp serves the eye.
+    std::string label;
+
+    // deriveBankPaths' baseName. Still passes through sanitizeStem, and stem uniqueness
+    // is still entirely makeUniqueTag's job.
+    std::string stemBase;
+};
+
+// "MM-DD HHMM" (e.g. "08-01 1432"); empty when the stamp carries no calendar date.
+// Year is deliberately omitted: the card and the browse list are narrow, and Sample
+// carries the full createdTimestamp for anything needing the exact moment.
+std::string formatCaptureStamp(const CaptureStamp& stamp);
+
+CaptureName composeCaptureName(const CaptureNameInputs& in);
+
+} // namespace reasampler::capture

src/core/capture/render_settings.h

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ RazorRange razorUnionBounds(const std::vector<RazorRange>& ranges);
 struct CaptureActionDef {
     const char*  commandSuffix;      // e.g. "CAPTURE_TRACK" — FOREVER-STABLE (composed w/ prefix)
     const char*  descriptionPhrase;  // e.g. "capture selected track(s)" — Actions-list phrase
-    const char*  baseName;           // file-stem base for this capture
+    const char*  baseName;           // file-stem FALLBACK; the source track normally names the capture
     CaptureScope scope;              // FX scope (item / track)
 };
 

src/core/ui/CLAUDE.md

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ L7 sub-pass, 2026-07-27):
 - `mode_enable` — pure opposite-mode enablement predicate: given the active mode, computes per-button live/disabled state for the four Item/Track × Arrange/Design tag buttons.
 - `tooltip` — pure tooltip placement + prefix-strip: strips the `ReaSampler:` display prefix from the registered action phrase; width clamped to the client rect.
 - `card_drag` — pure drag-gesture precedence + slot hit-test: leave-client → OS drag-out; other-bank → move/copy; same-bank → reorder / Alt-over-occupied → replace.
-- `card_meta` — pure card-metadata formatters: bars.beats.subdivisions and seconds.milliseconds; blank when the sample is unstamped.
+- `card_meta` — pure card-metadata formatters: bars.beats.subdivisions and seconds.milliseconds; blank when the sample is unstamped. Also `cardNameStrip` + the two strip constants — the card's name line sits across the TOP of the cell, drawn over the waveform exactly as the length read-out is over it at the bottom, and is suppressed entirely on a cell with no room for both strips plus a waveform band.
 - `stroke_aa` — analytic antialiased thick-stroke COVERAGE (the shell blends it): `StrokeCanvas`, a reusable mask holding distance-to-polyline coverage MAX-accumulated across segments, plus `strokePolyline` / `strokeBounds` / `appendArc` / `rasterRowOffset` (the row-major offset
   math for a possibly bottom-up raster, pulled out of the shell's LICE blend so its flipped
   branch is pinned by a host-free test). An arc is just a flattened polyline, so ONE path serves the knob arcs, the inner dial, the envelope polyline and both spline traces. Coverage is `clamp(halfWidth + 0.5 - distance, 0, 1)`, which makes perpendicular weight exactly `2·halfWidth` at every angle. **The guaranteed-opaque-core threshold is width ≥ 2 px, not any width above 1 px**: opacity needs `distance <= halfWidth - 0.5`, and the worst-case distance from a pixel centre to the centreline is 0.5, so a 1 px stroke (`halfWidth = 0.5`) has zero slack — its peak alpha modulates with the stroke's exact alignment to the pixel grid instead of pinning to 255 (Daniel's ruling, 2026-08-01: every stroker-drawn width on the editor is now >= 2 px for this reason — `testSubOpaqueCoreAtOnePixelWidth` in `tests/test_stroke_aa.cpp` still pins the 1 px case as a property of the stroker, independent of whether any surface ships at that width). Long segments are subdivided before rasterizing — EXACT, not an approximation (min-distance to a partition of a segment is min-distance to the whole), purely to keep each piece's bounding box tight, since one long diagonal's box has area O(len²).

src/core/ui/card_meta.cpp

@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@
 
 namespace reasampler::ui {
 
+Rect cardNameStrip(const Rect& cell) {
+    // Both strips plus a waveform band at least as tall as one strip; below that the card
+    // is a text block, not a thumbnail.
+    const int minHeight = 3 * kCardStripHeight;
+    if (cell.width <= 2 * kCardStripPad || cell.height < minHeight) return Rect{};
+    // Inset by 1px from the top edge so the name never sits on the selection border.
+    return Rect{cell.x + kCardStripPad, cell.y + 1,
+                cell.width - 2 * kCardStripPad, kCardStripHeight};
+}
+
 std::string formatBarsBeats(const MusicalLength& m) {
     if (m.tempoBpm <= 0.0 || m.timeSigNum <= 0 || m.timeSigDenom <= 0) return {};
 

src/core/ui/card_meta.h

@@ -5,8 +5,21 @@
 
 #include <string>
 
+#include "core/ui/rect.h"
+
 namespace reasampler::ui {
 
+// Both card overlay strips — the name line across the top, the length read-out along the
+// bottom — are this tall, with this much horizontal inset.
+inline constexpr int kCardStripHeight = 12;
+inline constexpr int kCardStripPad    = 3;
+
+// The strip the card's name line occupies: across the top of the cell, drawn OVER the
+// waveform exactly as the length read-out is drawn over it at the bottom. Empty when the
+// cell has no room for both strips plus a waveform worth looking at — the caller draws
+// nothing rather than burying the card under text.
+Rect cardNameStrip(const Rect& cell);
+
 // Musical length inputs, taken straight off a Sample's capture-time stamp. tempoBpm 0 = unknown;
 // timeSigNum/Denom 0 = unstamped.
 struct MusicalLength {

src/shell/capture/CLAUDE.md

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ detail not covered there:
 ## Modules
 
 - `capture` — two CONCRETE backends with deliberately different lifecycles (no shared interface — the former `ICaptureBackend` was deleted in Q-W3, T4-26: one deriver, zero polymorphic call sites): `OfflineRenderBackend` (deterministic default, synchronous) and `RealtimeRecordBackend` (async begin/tick/abort). Input: `CaptureRequest`. Output: finished file + populated `Sample` handed to `bank_model`.
-- `scope_resolve` (`shell/capture`) — scope/source resolution shared by every capture entry point (Q-W3 hoist out of `main.cpp`): razor-else-time range inference, selected-track/selected-item-owning-track collection with canonical GUIDs, and the M10 provenance-assembly inputs (read BEFORE the FX-bypass guard neutralizes the in-scope chain).
+- `scope_resolve` (`shell/capture`) — scope/source resolution shared by every capture entry point (Q-W3 hoist out of `main.cpp`): razor-else-time range inference, selected-track/selected-item-owning-track collection with canonical GUIDs, and the M10 provenance-assembly inputs (read BEFORE the FX-bypass guard neutralizes the in-scope chain). Also the one place a source track's NAME is read (`trackName`, via `GetTrackName` — chosen over `P_NAME` because it already answers REAPER's `"Track N"` convention for an unnamed track), landed on `ResolvedSource::trackNames` parallel to `sourceTracks` and composed into the capture's label + stem by the pure `core/capture/capture_name`.
 - `render_selection` (`shell/capture`) — the transient track selection a selected-tracks render (`&128`) requires, as a stack RAII guard: REAPER prints whatever tracks are selected, so `renderOffline` makes the request's own tracks BE the selection for the render's duration and restores the user's set on every exit path. Engaged ONLY for that source mode, which leaves a stated residual: a `&32` selected-items render still prints whatever ITEMS the user has selected. Live captures are unaffected (that selection is the source), but a recipe replay of a `SelectedItems` capture renders against whatever happens to be selected then — the recipe stores tracks and a range, never item GUIDs, so this guard cannot close it. Filed in `docs/TODO.md`.
 - `render_isolation` (`shell/capture`) — the transient upstream silencing a ranged ITEM render needs, as a stack RAII guard alongside the two above: the selected-tracks source prints everything flowing INTO the track, so each direct folder child's `B_MAINSEND` and each of the track's receives' `B_MUTE` are cut for the render and restored on every exit path. Direct children only — a grandchild reaches the track through the child that owns it. The child-set walk is pure (`core/capture/track_topology`).
 - `capture_orchestrator` (`shell/capture`) — single-capture orchestration + the realtime/insert action bodies (Q-W3 hoist, T4-02): `renderOffline` (one offline render under the scope's FX-bypass guard), `captureAndIndexOne` (render + provenance stamp + bank add + tracking-ledger record, unpersisted), `RunCapture`/`RunCaptureItemAssign`, `RunCaptureRealtimeTrack`/`RunCancelRealtime` (the realtime action bodies — the in-flight state lives in `realtime_lifecycle`), and `RunInsertSelected` (the ONE deliberate exception to capture-never-places).

src/shell/capture/capture.cpp

@@ -201,6 +201,32 @@ std::string makeUniqueTag(const std::string& prefix) {
            std::to_string(++counter);
 }
 
+CaptureName captureNameFor(const std::vector<std::string>& sourceNames,
+                           int ordinal, const std::string& fallback) {
+    CaptureNameInputs in;
+    in.sourceNames = sourceNames;
+    in.ordinal     = ordinal;
+    in.fallback    = fallback;
+
+    // localtime, not gmtime: the discriminator is read by the person who made the
+    // capture, so it must match the clock on their wall. A failed conversion leaves the
+    // stamp zeroed, which composeCaptureName renders as no discriminator at all.
+    const std::time_t now = std::time(nullptr);
+    std::tm local{};
+#ifdef _WIN32
+    const bool ok = (localtime_s(&local, &now) == 0);
+#else
+    const bool ok = (localtime_r(&now, &local) != nullptr);
+#endif
+    if (ok) {
+        in.stamp.month  = local.tm_mon + 1;   // tm_mon is 0-based
+        in.stamp.day    = local.tm_mday;
+        in.stamp.hour   = local.tm_hour;
+        in.stamp.minute = local.tm_min;
+    }
+    return composeCaptureName(in);
+}
+
 void stampCaptureSample(Sample& s, const CaptureRequest& req,
                         ReaProject* rateProj, ReaProject* timeSigProj,
                         const std::string& absolutePath) {
@@ -452,7 +478,7 @@ CaptureResult OfflineRenderBackend::capture(const CaptureRequest& request) {
     // Same uniqueTag that named the file — calling makeUniqueTag() again could
     // yield a different value and desync Sample.id from the file name.
     s.id            = "cap-" + uniqueTag + "-" + paths.fileName;
-    s.displayName   = request.baseName;
+    s.displayName   = request.label();
     s.relativePath  = paths.relativePath;  // project-relative (invariant)
     s.sourceMode    = request.sourceMode;
     s.sourceRange.startSeconds = request.startSeconds;

src/shell/capture/capture.h

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 
 #include "core/model/bank_model.h"
+#include "core/capture/capture_name.h"     // CaptureName — label + file-stem base
 #include "core/capture/render_settings.h"  // TailMode — the three-state tail contract
 
 // Forward-declared, never dereferenced here — only the REAPER-facing .cpp touches these.
@@ -60,6 +61,15 @@ struct CaptureRequest {
     // backend caller so the pure naming logic stays testable.
     std::string baseName  = "capture";
     std::string uniqueTag;
+
+    // The label the bank shows, which may legitimately differ from the file stem: the
+    // stem must survive sanitizeStem, the label carries the source name verbatim. Empty
+    // means "the stem base is also the label" — what a caller that names nothing else gets.
+    std::string displayName;
+
+    // The one home for that fallback rule; both backends populate Sample::displayName
+    // from here rather than each spelling the condition out.
+    std::string label() const { return displayName.empty() ? baseName : displayName; }
 };
 
 // Every failure is an explicit code, never a thrown exception across the REAPER boundary.
@@ -100,6 +110,14 @@ public:
 // backend's family marker ("" offline, "rt-" realtime).
 std::string makeUniqueTag(const std::string& prefix);
 
+// Composes one capture's label + file-stem base (core/capture/capture_name) from the
+// resolved source-track names, reading the LOCAL clock for the discriminator — the one
+// impure step, kept here so the composition itself stays pure and tested. `ordinal` is a
+// batch unit's number (0 for a single capture); `fallback` is the scope literal, used
+// only when no source name resolved.
+CaptureName captureNameFor(const std::vector<std::string>& sourceNames,
+                           int ordinal, const std::string& fallback);
+
 // Stamps the metadata shared by both backends onto `s`: trackGuids + channelCount
 // (echoed from the request), resolved sampleRate (request rate, else PROJECT_SRATE
 // from `rateProj`), captureTempo, the capture-start time signature

src/shell/capture/capture_batch.cpp

@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ namespace reasampler::capture {
 // captureAndIndexOne so every precision invariant holds; nothing lands in the
 // arrange (load-bearing principle).
 //
-// Each unit's baseName carries its ordinal ("item-1", "item-2", ...) so two units
-// in one batch never share a stem, and makeUniqueTag's per-session monotonic
-// counter keeps same-second units across batches from colliding too.
+// Each unit is named after its own source track and carries its batch ordinal, so two
+// units in one batch read apart even when they came off the same track; makeUniqueTag's
+// per-session monotonic counter keeps same-second units across batches from colliding.
 
 namespace {
 
@@ -219,12 +219,14 @@ void RunBatchCaptureItems(ReaSamplerSession& session)
             // selected-items render source prints exactly it — batch keeps the
             // one-sample-per-item-at-item-extent semantics, unchanged.
             src.itemExtentIsWindow = true;
+            src.trackNames.push_back(trackName(u.track));
             if (std::string g = guidString(u.track); !g.empty())
                 src.trackGuids.push_back(std::move(g));
 
-            const std::string baseName = "item-" + std::to_string(unit.ordinal);
+            const CaptureName name =
+                captureNameFor(src.trackNames, unit.ordinal, "item");
             CaptureResult res = captureAndIndexOne(
-                session, CaptureScope::Item, src, baseName,
+                session, CaptureScope::Item, src, name,
                 unit.startSeconds, unit.endSeconds);
 
             const bool ok = (res.status == CaptureStatus::Ok);
@@ -283,12 +285,14 @@ void RunBatchCaptureRazor(ReaSamplerSession& session)
             src.startSeconds = unit.startSeconds;
             src.endSeconds   = unit.endSeconds;
             src.sourceTracks.push_back(tr);
+            src.trackNames.push_back(trackName(tr));
             if (std::string g = guidString(tr); !g.empty())
                 src.trackGuids.push_back(std::move(g));
 
-            const std::string baseName = "razor-" + std::to_string(unit.ordinal);
+            const CaptureName name =
+                captureNameFor(src.trackNames, unit.ordinal, "razor");
             CaptureResult res = captureAndIndexOne(
-                session, CaptureScope::Track, src, baseName,
+                session, CaptureScope::Track, src, name,
                 unit.startSeconds, unit.endSeconds);
 
             const bool ok = (res.status == CaptureStatus::Ok);

src/shell/capture/capture_orchestrator.cpp

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ CaptureResult renderOffline(CaptureScope scope,
 CaptureResult captureAndIndexOne(ReaSamplerSession& session,
                                  CaptureScope scope,
                                  const ResolvedSource& src,
-                                 const std::string& baseName,
+                                 const CaptureName& name,
                                  double startSeconds,
                                  double endSeconds)
 {
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ CaptureResult captureAndIndexOne(ReaSamplerSession& session,
     req.sampleRate   = 0;                   // follow project rate
     req.channelCount = 2;
     req.bitDepth     = WavBitDepth::Float32;  // deterministic, no dither
-    req.baseName     = baseName;
+    req.baseName     = name.stemBase;
+    req.displayName  = name.label;
     req.trackGuids   = src.trackGuids;      // recorded on the Sample (provenance)
 
     // M10: compute provenance BEFORE the FxBypassGuard neutralizes the in-scope chain —
@@ -320,7 +321,12 @@ std::string RunCapture(ReaSamplerSession& session, const CaptureActionDef& def)
         return {};
     }
 
-    CaptureResult res = captureAndIndexOne(session, def.scope, src, def.baseName,
+    // The scope literal survives only as the fallback for a source whose name could not
+    // be read at all — the source track names the capture on every reachable path.
+    const CaptureName name =
+        captureNameFor(src.trackNames, /*ordinal=*/0, def.baseName);
+
+    CaptureResult res = captureAndIndexOne(session, def.scope, src, name,
                                            src.startSeconds, src.endSeconds);
     if (res.status != CaptureStatus::Ok)
     {
@@ -438,7 +444,10 @@ void RunCaptureRealtimeTrack(ReaSamplerSession& session)
     req.sampleRate   = 0;                           // follow project rate
     req.channelCount = 2;
     req.bitDepth     = WavBitDepth::Float32;
-    req.baseName     = "realtime";
+    const CaptureName name =
+        captureNameFor(src.trackNames, /*ordinal=*/0, "realtime");
+    req.baseName     = name.stemBase;
+    req.displayName  = name.label;
     req.trackGuids   = src.trackGuids;              // provenance on the Sample
 
     CaptureResult failure;

src/shell/capture/capture_orchestrator.h

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ CaptureResult renderOffline(CaptureScope scope,
 CaptureResult captureAndIndexOne(ReaSamplerSession& session,
                                  CaptureScope scope,
                                  const ResolvedSource& src,
-                                 const std::string& baseName,
+                                 const CaptureName& name,
                                  double startSeconds,
                                  double endSeconds);
 

src/shell/capture/capture_realtime_finalize.cpp

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ CaptureResult finalizeRecording(ReaProject* proj, MediaTrack* temp,
     cap.startSeconds = request.startSeconds;
     cap.endSeconds   = request.endSeconds;
     cap.wetDry       = request.wetDry;
-    cap.displayName  = request.baseName;
+    cap.displayName  = request.label();
     cap.trackGuids   = request.trackGuids;
     cap.channelCount = request.channelCount;
 

src/shell/capture/scope_resolve.cpp

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #define REAPERAPI_WANT_GetMediaItemInfo_Value
 #define REAPERAPI_WANT_CountSelectedTracks
 #define REAPERAPI_WANT_GetSelectedTrack
+#define REAPERAPI_WANT_GetTrackName
 #include "reaper_plugin_functions.h"
 
 namespace reasampler::capture {
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ bool collectSelectedItemTracks(ResolvedSource& out,
         for (MediaTrack* t : out.sourceTracks) if (t == tr) { seen = true; break; }
         if (seen) continue;
         out.sourceTracks.push_back(tr);
+        out.trackNames.push_back(trackName(tr));
         std::string g = guidString(tr);
         if (!g.empty()) out.trackGuids.push_back(std::move(g));
     }
@@ -101,6 +103,16 @@ int projectSampleRate()
 
 }  // namespace
 
+std::string trackName(MediaTrack* tr)
+{
+    if (!tr) return {};
+    // Track names are user-typed and unbounded; 1 KB is far past any real one, and this
+    // runs once per capture, not per frame.
+    std::vector<char> buf(1024, '\0');
+    if (!GetTrackName(tr, buf.data(), static_cast<int>(buf.size()))) return {};
+    return std::string(buf.data());
+}
+
 // Reads every track's P_RAZOREDITS (SDK header ~2899: space-separated triples of
 // start, end, envGuidString) and returns the union of parsed track-audio areas.
 // Reads only — never clears the razor selection.
@@ -148,6 +160,7 @@ bool collectSelectedTracks(ResolvedSource& out)
         MediaTrack* tr = GetSelectedTrack(nullptr, i);
         if (!tr) continue;
         out.sourceTracks.push_back(tr);
+        out.trackNames.push_back(trackName(tr));
         std::string g = guidString(tr);
         if (!g.empty()) out.trackGuids.push_back(std::move(g));
     }

src/shell/capture/scope_resolve.h

@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ struct ResolvedSource
     std::vector<MediaTrack*>  sourceTracks;
     std::vector<std::string>  trackGuids;
 
+    // Parallel to sourceTracks (one entry per track, in the same order) — the names the
+    // capture is labeled and filed after. trackGuids is NOT parallel: an unreadable GUID
+    // is dropped there, while an unreadable name still holds its track's slot.
+    std::vector<std::string>  trackNames;
+
     // Item scope only: does the selected items' own extent already print
     // [startSeconds, endSeconds)? Feeds sourceModeForScope. Defaults false so a
     // hand-built source fails closed to the time-bounded render — a caller whose
@@ -50,9 +55,16 @@ bool resolveRazorRange(double& start, double& end);
 // selection. Returns false with a reason when neither yields a non-empty range.
 bool resolveRange(double& start, double& end, std::string& why);
 
-// Collects the selected tracks (Track scope) into out.sourceTracks + GUIDs.
+// Collects the selected tracks (Track scope) into out.sourceTracks + GUIDs + names.
 bool collectSelectedTracks(ResolvedSource& out);
 
+// The track's display name, read-only. GetTrackName (SDK header ~3626) is used rather
+// than P_NAME because it already answers REAPER's own convention for an unnamed track
+// ("Track N"), which is exactly the deterministic fallback a capture label wants; P_NAME
+// would hand back an empty string instead. Empty only if the read itself fails.
+// Callers that build a ResolvedSource by hand (batch capture) use this directly.
+std::string trackName(MediaTrack* tr);
+
 // Resolves the source for a scope: the selection tracks (item/track), plus the
 // inferred range. Returns false with a reason on nothing to do.
 bool ResolveScopeSource(CaptureScope scope, ResolvedSource& out, std::string& why);

src/shell/panel/panel_render.cpp

@@ -30,17 +30,27 @@ void drawCardMeta(LICE_IBitmap* bmp, const CellRect& rect, const Sample& s) {
     const std::string bars = formatBarsBeats(ml);
     const std::string secs = formatSecondsMs(s.lengthSeconds);
 
-    const int stripH = 12;
-    const int pad = 3;
-    const int y = rect.y + rect.height - stripH;
+    const int y = rect.y + rect.height - kCardStripHeight;
     if (!bars.empty()) {
-        const KitBox left{rect.x + pad, y, rect.width / 2 - pad, stripH};
+        const KitBox left{rect.x + kCardStripPad, y,
+                          rect.width / 2 - kCardStripPad, kCardStripHeight};
         text(bmp, left, bars.c_str(), Font::Micro, Role::TextDim, Align::Left);
     }
-    const KitBox right{rect.x + rect.width / 2, y, rect.width / 2 - pad, stripH};
+    const KitBox right{rect.x + rect.width / 2, y,
+                       rect.width / 2 - kCardStripPad, kCardStripHeight};
     text(bmp, right, secs.c_str(), Font::ValueMono, Role::TextDim, Align::Right);
 }
 
+// The capture's name across the top of the card. The kit clips with an end-ellipsis, so a
+// long name shortens ON SCREEN only — the stored label is never truncated. An entry with
+// no label (nothing writes one today, but old banks are not migrated) draws nothing.
+void drawCardName(LICE_IBitmap* bmp, const CellRect& rect, const Sample& s) {
+    if (s.displayName.empty()) return;
+    const CellRect strip = cardNameStrip(rect);
+    if (strip.empty()) return;
+    text(bmp, strip, s.displayName.c_str(), Font::Micro, Role::TextPrimary, Align::Left);
+}
+
 void drawThumbnail(LICE_IBitmap* bmp, const CellRect& rect, const Envelope& env,
                    bool selected, bool focused, bool hovered, const Sample* sample) {
     // Selected cards draw the normal cell surface, not an inverted fill — selection
@@ -59,7 +69,10 @@ void drawThumbnail(LICE_IBitmap* bmp, const CellRect& rect, const Envelope& env,
 
     drawWaveform(bmp, cell, env);
 
-    if (sample) drawCardMeta(bmp, rect, *sample);
+    if (sample) {
+        drawCardName(bmp, rect, *sample);
+        drawCardMeta(bmp, rect, *sample);
+    }
 }
 
 KitBox toKitBox(const RECT& r) {

src/shell/panel/panel_state.h

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ using ui::TooltipBox;
 using ui::TooltipSpec;
 using ui::applyClick;
 using ui::assemblePathList;
+using ui::cardNameStrip;
 using ui::clampTabScroll;
 using ui::columnsForWidth;
 using ui::computeBarSlots;
@@ -132,6 +133,8 @@ using ui::hitTestMenuButton;
 using ui::hitTestPruneButton;
 using ui::hitTestSlot;
 using ui::hitTestTabStrip;
+using ui::kCardStripHeight;
+using ui::kCardStripPad;
 using ui::menuButtonReserve;
 using ui::modeSegmentEnabled;
 using ui::navigate;