Thread: Organising Movies and Music in Explorer..

I am looking for a program which is designed to make it easy to organise the thousands of videos and hundreds of thousands of songs on the computer.
Currently I have about a million tracks titled: track1.mp3, and I wondered if there is some software out there which will look up what the track is named in iTunes, and relabel the file, so that it could look like " Muse - Resistance" or "Tool - Stinkfist" (Band - Songname)

And perhaps a similar one for movies, so that instead of: "requiem_for a dreem superleeth4xzor2.1 blah blah" it could say 'Requiem for a Dream"

Does anyone know if this software exists? My tracks are organised in iTunes, and i organise my movie files manually, but if I'm looking for the actual song file, it can take forever, or I have to go to iTunes and click show in windows explorer.

Ideally the program would capitalise appropriate letters, and some manual work would have to be done, but just the band name and track title have to be entered, rather than having to click rename, edit the details etc.

eyeD3

It sounds like your id3 tags are intact if you're using iTunes. Then you could use the above command line utility to rename all your files. It's free and very powerful. It's powerful because you can run it against many files or script with it.

For example, the following command would rename all the mp3's in a directory starting with the track number, a space, a dash, a space, and finally the track name. You could also use album, year, artist, etc. in your new name.

Code:

 $ eyeD3 --rename="%n - %t" *.mp3

Ah so the python eyed3 program? Thankyou very much, I have been looking for somethnig like this for ages, but never bothered to ask someone. Cheers Mate.

I think I forgot to mention that this is a Linux program.

Originally Posted by s2cuts

eyeD3

It sounds like your id3 tags are intact if you're using iTunes. Then you could use the above command line utility to rename all your files. It's free and very powerful. It's powerful because you can run it against many files or script with it.

For example, the following command would rename all the mp3's in a directory starting with the track number, a space, a dash, a space, and finally the track name. You could also use album, year, artist, etc. in your new name.

Code:

 $ eyeD3 --rename="%n - %t" *.mp3