mass-renamer tool

[Steve Holmes]

Yah well if you use abcde on linux, it will name the files with
whatever format you wish and place them in a directory hierarchy of
your choosing.  It is fabulous what you can make it do.  I even went
and changed the default formats to include spaces - shame on me:).

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:35:22AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> I thaught you could reconfig the cddb service or the idv3tag format to show
> title artist not just song number.  This won'd help you with stuff you have
> but might with new songs if possible
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> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
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> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: mass-renamer tool
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> 
> > I'm sorry I don't have access to my other machine which has a perl
> > script that does some global renaming. But for starters, the for
> > construct is your friend.  In either bash or perl, do a for loop and
> > have it pass over each file in the given directory and do regexp and
> > whatever else substitutions in for the new name and then do the new
> > name  My version takes out underscores and puts spaces back in for use
> > with my windows environments.  Now that I'm doing more and more in
> > linux however, I almost regret that standard and may go back the other
> > way and leave them in.  But I'm trying to keep all my archived CD's
> > containing mp3's consistantly named.
> >
> > Let me know if you need more.  When I get home tonight, I'll try and
> > pass along what I have though it could use some more juce to make it
> > better and more flexible.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:05:07AM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
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> > > Hi gang.  Anyone got any scripts or know of where I can find some tools
> > > to do some mass-renaming?  For example, I have lots of audio files which
> > > are named:
> > >
> > > 12-song-title.ogg
> > >
> > > And I'd like to mass rename them to:
> > >
> > > Artist_-_songtitle.ogg
> > >
> > > Or something to that affect.  I've triewd writing my own script but keep
> > > running into problems with the spaces in the files because wsith the mv
> > > command they need to be escaped.  It's not as easy as poutting '' around
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Any ideas or suggestions?
> > >
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