![]() ![]() So.I'm not sure if I want to use "my" version of the album name, or the metatag's version of it. But even ignoring that.I'll have to study up on the conditional commands to see how to deal with ignoring the artist's name in those "various" albums. ![]() Not to mention, since I aborted it after the lockup, I'm not at all sure what might be missing or corrupt: Time to start over. And then, if the folder name didn't exactly match the metatag's album name, the album art stayed put-but the songs went into a new folder with the precisely correct name. When there are multiple artists indicated (like a collection album) it of course shotgunned them, each to a separate folder, no longer an album. Others.indicate the need for more sophisticated scripting. Some folders were just fine, it renamed and overwrote (this was a duplicate USB stick) in the desired artist/album/track*-tracktitle format. Two hours later I killed it and went to take a look. ![]() So I set it loose on 14,000 and it stalled out, still "running" but doing nothing, after about two hours halfway through. First I ran it against just one folder, one artist, one album. Well, not being a football fan, I took some time to try running the batch conversion today. mp3tag can also be used to change directory name/location, but that's not being done above. If you want artist at the end of file name, you can always add %artist% somewhere in the string (at end?).Īll the above will change the filename, but will leave the files in the same ALBUM or ARTIST/ALBUM subdirectory they were already in. use this mapping to get track number (with double digits)-title of track from menu select CONVERT, then TAG to Filenameģ. I suspect your car is not using tags at all, but instead using FILE NAMES. Thanks.EdIT: obviously test all this with a few tracks before changing name on thousands of files. WHile I look for the coffee and the Arrange Audio codec, could you give me some specific hints about how to set up either one? a list of parameters or way to specify syntax like "Track*""TitleName" etc.Ĭould be I'm suffering from a caffeine shortage. I did look at MP3tag, but I don't see any clear way to do the batch renaming the way I want to, i.e. It should be scriptable, I just have no idea what or how to being doing that without doing custom programming. So is there any way.I'm using dbp, paid, the whole thing, any way that I can tell it "Go rename all the songs in this library, take their track number and make sure to use a leading zero for the single digit ones (REALLY dumb stereo!), and rename them as "Track01-SongTitleWhatever" instead of just the existing song title? But if I want to hear an ALBUM in the original sequence, that's not possible.Īnd I'm not about to rename the tracks in a thousand albums all manually, just to placate a dumb car stereo. So, if I listen to random cuts.no problem, that's random. Which is NOT the correct track order, and certainly not how the artists intended the album to be played. I've got the library on a USB stick to feed the new car, and the car's "music system" only knows how to read alphabetically, so it only plays cuts in alphabetical order. You see, I keep my library organized by artist\album\track-name and every music player or radio I've ever met has been happy to just dig the track number up from the metadata, and play the tracks in any one album, in track order. ![]()
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