diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f4e483a6..4d6e0858 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 \#docs/
-/_private/
 /build/
-/debugging/
+/data/debugging/
+/data/private/
 /evaluations/
 /examples/build/bin/
 /examples/build/codelite/
 /examples/build/vc6/
 /examples/build/vc15/
 /examples/build/vc17/
-/examples/simple_playback_sine.cpp
 /external/ogg/
 /external/vorbis/
 /external/opus/
@@ -16,9 +15,6 @@
 /extras/osaudio/tests/build/bin/
 /extras/osaudio/tests/build/vc17/
 /extras/osaudio/tests/build/watcom-dos/
-/extras/backends/pipewire/a.out
-/extras/decoders/litewav/
-/research/_build/
 /tests/_build/bin/
 /tests/_build/res/output/
 /tests/_build/cmake-emcc/
@@ -54,9 +50,4 @@
 
 # Below are individual files that I may start version controlling later or delete outright.
 /examples/build/COSMO.txt
-/research/ma_fft.c
-/research/ma_hrtf.c
-/research/ma_atomic.c
-/research/miniaudio_engine.c
-/tests/stress/
 /tools/hrtfgen/
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diff --git a/research/README.txt b/research/README.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 160f56d7..00000000
--- a/research/README.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-This folder contains code that I'm experimenting with outside of the main miniaudio library. It's just for
-my own research and experimenting which I'm putting into the repository for version control purposes and
-to get feedback from the community. You should not consider any of this code to be production quality.
\ No newline at end of file