Renaming Batches of Audio files…
I [like many of you i’m sure] have boatloads of great music on my computer.
However - combing through each file individually to right click - select rename - deselect highlight and then erase each number individually gets old after about 5 songs.
Any advice on combing through and also renaming vast amounts of audio files??
anything is appreciated as I feel this is a common beast many of us attempt to tackle
I use Mp3 Tag Tools (http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/)
It’ freeware.
You can rename all yours mp3s using tags info or viceversa.
Batch renaming is a majorly dodgy process and takes a time to do correctly, basically if all your mp3’s do not have proper comments written things start getting a bit haywire.
That means you have to be 100% sure that all of your mp3s id3 tags are very well filled, otherwise your going to end up with a huge mess of differently named files.
My first step in reorganising any music is to first work at the folder level and organise it into Artist\Release, from there i batch rename each individual artist at a time as opposed to batch renaming several artists at once, every time making sure the comments are well filled out and that the batch renaming process goes smoothly.
Lately i have been building a completely separate dj mp3 collection for mixing and have been organising a single artist at a time. I personally feel working on one artist at a time is the only effective way to have any hope of doing a good job on organising massive mp3 collections as its the only way to have a decent quality control of whats happening to the files.
Nice …
I was in search of programs as well as methods - thanks to both of you 
Is it agreed that mp3 tag tools is one of the better/best programs out there for accomplishing such a thing?
There are so many different programs out there, i personally think it comes down to personal choice and what you personally want to accomplish. I don’t think its a matter of whats best, its a matter of what is best for you.
Give it a go and see how it goes for ya
Well. it seems a big thing nowadays.
I only seem to bother sorting it by genre followed by a Mixed In Key overhaul.
If the BPM exceeds 8% I might even make a seperate high BPM/low BPM rating based folder, but that’s still in planning phase.
Why 8%? especially considering your using BCR rotaries ?
I use teh following software - First.. Better File Rename, then MP3 Tag Tools, then Xone Mixed In Key 3.
I have found this is the fastest way for me to rename mass (Gbs) files at the same, renaming the Tags and keep them organized, then identify the key/bpm.
LOLz.
I am thinking of 8% due to the pitch fader reach of my setup in Traktor. (Set that to duplicate the Technics SL1200 reach)
Yeah but why not a bigger pitch range, if its there use it i rekon !
I can see why someone using a fader with low resolution midi would use 8% but if you have the ability to send relative midi messages id be setting it to something like 30%
Well.. Mostly for me, because of the pre- keylock era. 
Might dable around with it some more tonight. (Breaks & dubstep set)
Could you elaborate on this … I’m not fully catching it … If the bpm exceeds 8% of what ?? I understand the faders in traktor will increase and decrease only so much but isn’t 8% relative to something outside of the song itself ??
Or are you saying if the song has the ability to have its speed ramped up beyond 8% ??
sorry if these seems like a stupid question - i’m new to most of all this
I could see how that conversation could be a little confusing 
8% of the bpm speed, so a track thats 100bpm can be adjusted 8bmp forward and 8bpm backwards giving a range or 92 → 108 bpm
Its all relative to the track playing at normal speed.
In Traktor its possible to increase this 8% pitch range to a lot more.
Thanks for the clarification on that …
So how would one go about increasing in traktor more than 8% because i’ve definetly found myself frustrated trying to stretch a song to fit into the beginning of the next …
For Mac users i really recommend a free utility called Name Changer if all you want to do is remove the numbers of the tracks before the names of the files.
Example: Filename = 03_Jeff Mills_The Bells
It allows you to remove characters from the file name and you can load for example all the mp3´s that you want to remove in the example i gave before 3 characters (03_)
I used about 5 different Mp3 Tagging software and the best by far is Trainspotter - http://www.tspotter.net/
It´s free and it basically finds the release of your mp3 on Discogs and Beatport and gives you the options (cause the same mp3 is very often released in compilations and re-editions etc…). You tick the one it corresponds to and voilá… It not only tags all the fields of the mp3 correctly as it adds the artwork.
Totally recommend it to all digital DJ´s.
As much as it sucks at a lot of things…iTunes - Apple
There’s a setting to rename/move files and keep things organized. I honestly think it works as long as you’re not using something with sidecar files (Torq and Ableton are the only ones I know of off the top of my head).