Help: Renaming 1000+ tracks : [ Yeeesh!

[deviantdigi]

Hello again,
Edit* A guy gave me some CD's :eek:.

If you don't mind, what is the easiest way of renaming 100 CD's worth of tracks?

Much appreciated,
-Digi

[completej]

you can use an apple script to do a batch remove of specific counts of characters. or you could use trainspotter / musicbrainz picard to dl the correct info and modify the id3, or the filename.

if you do the id3 tags, there are more options to do it right, and a nice frontend will just read those and disregard the actual filename.

[deviantdigi]

you can use an apple script to do a batch remove of specific counts of characters. or you could use trainspotter / musicbrainz picard to dl the correct info and modify the id3, or the filename.

if you do the id3 tags, there are more options to do it right, and a nice frontend will just read those and disregard the actual filename.

Thank you kind sir,
I did google before, but since I didn't know how to correctly put it. I was getting off results. There is a lot of file re-namers out there appearently. I went with the method of deleting the 1st few characters in the title using a quick program called Antrenamer. Man, its so simple thinking back all those hours I would sit there mind numbly rename tracks all individually : [.

Thanks you saved me a hell of alot of time and frustration!
-Digi


I got AntRenamer from here: http://www.antp.be/software/renamer/download (Nod32 scanned clean)

[tekki]

Please take a look at your starting post and edit it properly. Don't want us to help you with illegal activities, do you?

[keithace]

are you going to play all those singles? I dont library things for the sake of having a big collection...listen as you go...keep the ones you like...rename only the ones you keep...

[Patch]

I use FileRenamer:

http://www.filerenamer.net/

It works great. Find & replace, add prefixes/suffixes, delete a set number of characters from the file name (starting at the start or the end of the file name).

Use this in conjunction with MP3Tag and all your file naming/tagging needs are sorted!

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

[padi_04]

Kid3 does the trick for me

[Bassline Brine]

I suck it up and do it manually.

It's the only way I know it's going to be 100% correct. But alas, it is a pain in the ass.

That being said, what you're doing is illegal and while I realize it's something that was "kind", it's also something to be said to building your own collection legally.

[deviantdigi]

Please take a look at your starting post and edit it properly. Don't want us to help you with illegal activities, do you?

Edit* I forget how sensitive the interwebs is nowadays. -.-

[tekki]

Excellent edit bro'.