Vista re-naming tool

[Jimmy1983]

Just sorting out my .mp3's and I want all off mine arranged like this, other than doing it manually is there an app that will re-name each tune as below

etc. 01. name

 

[Jimmy1983]

I only use WMP11 to play my music, will I have to therefore import all off my tunes into WMP11 to the library just to change the titles?

 

[Jimmy1983]

tag & rename, is what you want.

Using WMP11?

I only really want to change the files names like how they are in the picture above.

 

[Jimmy1983]

yup

http://www.softpointer.com/images/tr_main_full.png

it can do your whole collection in one go (i'd make a 2nd copy of your music folder, and run it on that, just incase)

Thanks, is that software better than using WMP? Any freeware about instead?
Also what does it mean when re-naming the 'tags'?

 

[Jimmy1983]

it's not a player, it's just for renaming & tagging music

tag's are the data held in the file, such as Artist, Track Name, Album name, etc etc..

if you use winamp, hold ALT and tap 3 when selecting a song, it'll show you the tag..


never used wmp11, looked to bloaty, so can't comment

Yer, any idea if there is some freeware instead? Think ive heard off something called mp3tagger or something.

Iam only doing this because iam off traveling soon and just brought an archos and want to add all my music onto it and have it arranged well.

 

[Jimmy1983]

Hhhmmmm, not sure if I need/want to mess about with tags now. only really wanted to have everything arranged like in the screeny. Hmmmmmmmmm.

 

[Jimmy1983]

Arrrrrggg there are loads!

Thanks all

Think I will use http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ as ive heard that mentioned the most on here.

Is it worth me taking a back-up first?

 

[Jimmy1983]

Not having much luck using http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Ive copied 5 albums onto my desktop to have a play.

Anyone got any good guides, not having much luck with the help.

 

[Jimmy1983]

File Change Directory (Ctrl + D)
Ctrl + A to select all
Tag Sources (select relevant site)
Search for album and when found update the tags.

Getting there, thanks a lot

So far.....

I want to have the filename as shown for track 1, how can I do that?

Not sure what the Tag row is showing?! ID3v1 ID3v2.3 etc
01. name etc

 

[Jimmy1983]

Point Media Player at them and setup the options (cant remember tabs) to organise according to rip settings, setup your rip settings and away it will go

I dont need to rip all off my mp3's again.

I would have thought in mp3tag I could set the program to copy each filename to how I want it?!

 

[Jimmy1983]

Can mp3tag not do it then?

Got a lot off tunes already in the WMP libary ive changed the options in rip but its not changing any file names in windows explorer

Thanks for your help with this

 

[Jimmy1983]

Ah yer, selected that option. Didnt change any file names tho.

All files are looking like 05-pendulum_-_through_the_loop

 

[Jimmy1983]

Nooooo, just messed up big time. Selected 'rearrange music in rip folder, using rip settings' in WMP now all my music is all over the show. The file names have changed to what I want tho!

Gutted, tried system restore, no joy!

 

[Jimmy1983]

Thanks a lot whitecrook for that. Will give it ago shorty.

Iam going to have to get everything back to how it was earlier, all the music has been messed around now.

 

[Jimmy1983]

Didnt you say you got a backup that you can copy back over? The rip will put the folders in <<Path To Music>>\Album Artist\Album Name\Tracknameasyouwant.mp3

Yer ive got a back-up but missing a few albums. Maybe 10tops. I will have a play around to see if I can get things back to how they where before I delete everything and resort to my back-ups.

 

[Jimmy1983]

whitecrook, ive changed one album ok. But now when I go to 'add or change directory' the album that ive edited always loads up when I start mp3tag. Then when selecting 'add or change directory' the folder tree does not allow me to expand my music, it only shows the album that ive just edited. Tried deleting it etc.

A another thing, what do the action groups do that you wrote about allow you to do?

Also can you save profiles in m3tag for like indie music dance music etc and to save the settings you use in extended tags?

 

[Jimmy1983]

At the mo, iam adding the album, connect to amazon find album, then extended tags edit those, then Right Click -> Convert : Tag to filename

Iam doing this for each album so its taking a while! Not sure if there is a quicker way?


'add or change directory' needed to delete the previous one first. Didn't know you can use drag and drop.


Ive got a few mixed albums eg,

(03) [Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso] Umbrella

if I use what iam using at the mo, iam only left with the song name 'Umbrella', how do I show both when I Right Click -> Convert : Tag to filename, and then you key in the mask you want $num(%track%,2). guessing I need to add something like %title% ??

Discogs never seems to connect either, is it poss to add additional 'tag sources' ?

Going to give Itunes a miss tbh, thanks anyway.

Thanks again

 

[Jimmy1983]

Any mp3tag users, can you help me out?

Ive got a few mixed albums eg,

(03) Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso - Umbrella
(07) Dirty South Featuring Rudy - Let It Go


if I use what iam using at the mo, iam only left with the song name 'Umbrella', how do I show the artist then title off the track?

 

[Jimmy1983]

Sorry didnt explain myself vwell.

This is how I want it all arranged

But in mp3tag when I go to Right Click -> Convert : Tag to filename it comes up with this,

By a mixed album I mean something like this http://www.amazon.com/Search-Sunris...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1199024217&sr=1-1

Bare in mind that on amazon they have the track name first then artist, and I want it the other way round so

01. Tastexperience - Tantrix

So what I need to do is change the artist DJ Tiesto the the artist off the track not the DJ who mixed the cd so it will be Tastexperience

 

[Jimmy1983]

(03) Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso - Umbrella
(07) Dirty South Featuring Rudy - Let It Go

are just two tracks from an album.

Also when editing double cd's do you know how to change the numbers on CD2, as amazon just carrys on the numbering from CD1. Ive tried the auto-numbering, but no joy.

Thanks again