Book on Tape - importing multiple CDs

[kconover]

Actually, I just did a 12-CD series just now.

I had to number starting with 01 instead of 1.

I was able to fix my bad numbers, changing 1 to 01 and the like, via the Advanced Rename menu in Directory Opus, my file manager and Windows Explorer replacement (highly recommended).

There are many multi-rename tools out there, too, some of which are free. But none are as easy as doing it in Directory Opus.

[Lowlander]

Tools > Auto-Organize Files

<Disc#:2><Track#:2>

[kconover]

My previous post works only if you have less than 10 CDs. For more than 10 CDs, here is a slight modification:


Simply rip the CDs, and for the first CD, in the Rip CD dialog box, click the Configure button, and edit the labeling pattern to be something like this:
Main Directory: C:\PD\Teaching Company\Literature-Fantasy\
Subdirectories: (leave blank)
Filename: 1<Track#:2>

(I create a new subdirectory for each course, and enter it in the Main Director editbox as above)
Each time I stick a new CD in the drive, I manually increment the first number in the Filename editbox, for example, for the second CD, it would look like this:

Filename: 02<Track#:2>

and for the third CD it would look like this:

Filename: 03<Track#:2>

Then your tracks are
0101.mp3
0102.pm3
...
0112.mp3
0201.mp3
0202.mp3
...
0212.mp3
0301.mp3
...
1201.mp3
1202.mp3

and so forth