Batch Editing - What Do You Use?

greenwoodmonkey · Post by **greenwoodmonkey** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:25 am

I am pretty anal when it comes the display and layout of my MP3 filenames... and seem to be spending a lot of time amending file names to suit my tastes...

From reading the pages it seems I am not the only one like this, so I will assume someone has found a nice utility that will allow batch editing of filenames..

What I want to do is scan my music collection looking for those tagging anomalies that happen when auto-tag features such as "[" instead of "(" and the ever annoying "[*]" (which I frankly have no idea what that is supposed to mean!) and then batch edit do that all "[" turn into "("

I have used something in the past that did this, but for the life in me I have no idea what it was called, nor can I find it using the normal searches...

Any suggestions?

steelydan · Post by **steelydan** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:10 am

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Absolutely awesome program IMO. Kept me interested in my collection for hours. Very easy to use and simple to get the hang of. Also, there is an undo, which is extremely helpful.

Mizery_Made · Post by **Mizery_Made** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:29 am

Just a note, "[*]" from AMG (and subsequently) Windows Media Player means that song was a "Bonus Track." While a "[#]" indicates the song was previously unreleased before that compilation/greatest hits album. (Changes on 2Pac's Greatest Hits for example)

steelydan · Post by **steelydan** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:41 am

Mizery_Made wrote:Just a note, "[*]" from AMG (and subsequently) Windows Media Player means that song was a "Bonus Track." While a "[#]" indicates the song was previously unreleased before that compilation/greatest hits album. (Changes on 2Pac's Greatest Hits for example)

Yea.......but half of those lyrics was stolen from "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto".

Not arguing, just shootin the breeze.

Mizery_Made · Post by **Mizery_Made** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:17 am

It doesn't bother me much, I don't really mess with anything from Pac post-'96.

LionShare · Post by **LionShare** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:49 am

For me after testing a good number of APPs in this regard, I settled on FileRenamer V.4

Amazingly easy and very robust in terms of features/functionality.

Enjoy!!!
http://www.sherrodcomputers.com/product ... enamer.cfm

Nebbin · Post by **Nebbin** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:43 pm

Is there any reason you don't use MediaMonkey for this?

I find it much easier to batch edit all the file tags and then auto-organise to write the correct filenames. This way the tags and filenames are in sync. (Although I suppose editing the filenames and then using "auto-tag from filename" may work if all the info is contained therein)

I use the "Custom Scripts" by W. Kyle White to add this functionality to MM2.5 - I have no idea what capabilities MM3 has since I have yet to use it. It's been a wish of mine to have this ability supported natively.

LionShare · Post by **LionShare** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:22 pm

Nebbin wrote:Is there any reason you don't use MediaMonkey for this?

I find it much easier to batch edit all the file tags and then auto-organise to write the correct filenames. This way the tags and filenames are in sync. (Although I suppose editing the filenames and then using "auto-tag from filename" may work if all the info is contained therein)

I use the "Custom Scripts" by W. Kyle White to add this functionality to MM2.5 - I have no idea what capabilities MM3 has since I have yet to use it. It's been a wish of mine to have this ability supported natively.

MM2.5 is very slow when mass editing file names and relatively so when tag editing. FileRenamer is almost instant for search/replace (i.e..Feature=Ft. or remix=rmx) type functionality. Tag&Rename 3.3.5 is my other APP for mass tag editing.