mass-renamer tool

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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
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup Mailing-list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: mass-renamer tool


> 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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