Renaming MP3's

[caLLous]

Right. Hi. Does anybody have or know of a really good mass mp3 renamer? What I want to do is take a filename like:

Track# - Artist - Trackname.mp3

and turn it into:

Track#-Artist_-_Trackname.mp3

BUT. I want to replace all spaces in the Artist and Trackname with underscores as well, and this is what is causing problems so far.

I'm aware that I could probably do this part with a general file renamer (space > _) but I want to tidy up all the messily named ones, so maybe I could rename them all to something logical with the mp3 renamer and then get rid of all spaces with the file renamer...

If anyone knows of a good implementation of either of the above, please shout it's name and some decent linkage. Ta.

 

[mank!]

Here.

 

[Brinx]

I use Renamer Fairy for anything like that. It nicely integrates into the Explorer shell too.

 

[Shocko]

rename " " _ *.mp3

 

[old.Kez]

Renfairy is useful for allsorts, its great.
Helium 1.6 is my mp3 namer/tagger of choice, because I couldn't find a serial for later versions :/

 

[caLLous]

Ta mank, that one seems to do exactly what I want.

PM sent Kez.

 

[old.Kez]

Helium2 hurts :/

I did a mass rename, but somewhere along the line it crashed, leaving me with completely unorganised directories (removed track numbers, replaced them with others, etc). Now I have roughly 3000 files to use renfairy on. One directory at a time. I weep between files :/

 

[caLLous]

I feel your pain. That sounds like a similar state of disrepair that I had to deal with when I started sorting all mine out. Except it's probably a tad worse for you because yours were sorted before...

 

[old.Kez]

I've got as far as K now. I'm wary of converting everything to underscores afterwards for fear of undoing all my hard work. I also fear the onslaught of complaining Soulseek users that will no doubt flood me with questions concerning my files 'going missing'.

 

[caLLous]

I want/need to change all spaces to underscores because I use an IRC script to play mp3's for the most part, and it has a hissy fit if there are more than 2 spaces in a filename and/or path. But it's a great script and I don't really mind doing it.

 

[Shocko]

Mp3s are the only files i that i use spaces in the names for

 

[caLLous]

And it's giving me a perfect opportunity to go through all my mp3's (slowly) and make sure all the id3 tags are correct.

 

[old.Kez]

Its giving me that same perfect opportunity. But I didn't want it; ever.

I'm at R now, rah!

 

[caLLous]

Keep going, you can do it!

I'm getting mildly (read: breaking things) annoyed because the majority of the tags are proving to be all wrong, as opposed to slightly wrong.

 

[old.Kez]

Thankfully there are few bands that choose band names beginning post-T, so I have about 15 albums left to rename. Sigh. Then I have to set about completing the ones I've discovered are incomplete. Fabulous.

 

[caLLous]

I'm up to F, but only because I'm being all meticulous and perfectionist about it.



I never realised this could be so much fun!!!1

 

[old.Kez]

So I'm done, as of twenty past nine. Now everything thats supposed to be in album order, is. I've decided against the underscoring for today, because if something were to go wrong, I'm certain I'd have a fit. Still, its much more organised now, with the filenames thus:

Artist-track-title.mp3

I'm telling you this because while I realise its completely trivial, deep down I have a sense of accomplishment.

 

[PR.]

I did all that but with the tool supplied with the Media Player Power Toys which remames all the tracks and sorts them into the artists particular folder it did a pretty good job, all the CD's I had ripped had there album cover downloaded and added.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Brinx
I use Renamer Fairy for anything like that. It nicely integrates into the Explorer shell too.

http://www.psychicmp3.com/

 

[stu]

Rename-o-matic

Sounds shit, isn't (honest). It's a batch mp3 renamer with quite a few options.

www.influenced.net

 

[caLLous]

Heh, nice vibrating menu.