Renaming files 70gbs of Mp3s

Efour · 1 Jul 2011 at 12:47

Ok...

I merged 2 folders and pressed keep files but dont overwrite (by mistake) Left it to finish and 40 minutes later facepalmed...

I used a freeware utility called Duplicate file finder or something and removed as many as possible.

The issue i have is now many of the files i have left are named for example:

Rollingstones - Paint it Black(2).mp3

I have 1000s of files with (2) in their title and although not the end of the world it looks bad.

Is there anything i can do that will mass remove the (2) obviously some files have the number 2 in them for real naming reasons so have to be careful.

Any advice Util or batch file thing somone can write or tell me about ? :eek:

SGWills · 1 Jul 2011 at 12:58

i think the one i use is monkey media gold, it will allow you to rename files by the title//artist//track etc and it will also move the files if needs be aswel

IdhDec · 1 Jul 2011 at 12:58

Check out ReNamer, it should do what you want. You just need to add a rule to remove (2). Hope this helps

marc2003 · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:02

foobar2000 can do this. when you install it make sure you check the option for "file operations". it's not selected by default.

add files to a playlist>right click>file operations>rename to>...

assuming your tags are good, simply

%artist% - %title%

or if you really want to do it by keeping the original filename....

Code:

$if($strcmp($right(%filename%,4), '('2')'),$replace(%filename%,$right(%filename%,4),),%filename%)

you can check the preview window before applying.

Efour · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:06

thanks guys will check all options out over the weekend, much love x !

Moothead2 · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:16

Have you tired Ctrl + F and searching for (2) in your music folder and then selecting them all and delteing them

?

Efour · 1 Jul 2011 at 16:49

I used renamer.... not only did it hoover up all the (2)s i replaced all
_the_stupid_underscores_between_the words with spaces too....

Nice little utility good for a noob like me.

IPAddis · 1 Jul 2011 at 17:42

Been there, done that:

DeDupe.vbs - Deletes files, make sure you understand what it does before using it.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("d:\music")
Set colSubfoldersL1 = objFolder.Subfolders
For Each objSubfolderL1 in colSubfoldersL1
Set colSubfoldersL2 = objSubFolderL1.Subfolders
For Each objSubfolderL2 in colSubfoldersL2
Set colFiles = objSubFolderL2.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
i = InStr(objFSO.GetBaseName(objFile), " (2)")
If i > 0 Then
dupeFile = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(objFile) + "\" + Left(objFSO.GetBaseName(objFile), i-1) + "." + objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile)
If objFSO.FileExists(dupeFile) Then
' objFSO.DeleteFile objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(objFile)
objFSO.MoveFile objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(objFile), "D:\Temp\Duplicates\"
End If
End If
Next
Next
Next

chaosophy · 1 Jul 2011 at 21:37

Code:

cmd /v:on /c "for /f "delims=" %A in ('dir "*(2)*.*" /s /b') DO (set file="%~nxA" & rename "%A" "!file:(2)=!")"

Should have worked from the cmd line at the root of the drive or folder.
Changed to...

Code:

cmd /v:on /c "for /f "delims=" %A in ('dir "*_*.*" /s /b') DO (set file="%~nxA" & rename "%A" "!file:_= !")"

Should replace any underscores with spaces.