I Need Help with some bulk file renaming?

Question

I need to rename about 57,000 songs in my music library and rather than sit here and go F2 for each song I remember a way of doing it through a text editor that required you using fields for find and replace. You would then save the text file as a batch file run it and it would instantly rename all your files. trying this through excel is long and tedious I just want to take the track list and change instantly. Each file name will be custom different names per track so I can't use a bulk renamer.

Any help is appreciated thank you.

Answer 1

There are better (and simpler) ways. There are tools available which lets you specify the nomenclatures.



http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,22983-order,4/reviews.html



You may also google with words like "file rename utility" "bulk file rename" etc.



Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I use a program called Flash Renamer for renaming my music files. It can automatically rename mp3s based on the content stored inside most of them (the id3 tag). It also has find & replace like you want. It is very easy to use. I got it here:



http://www.rlvision.com/flashren/about.asp

Answer 3

Flash Renamer can batch rename filename extensions. (yet changing the extension won't substitute the filetype, so i don't see why you would be wanting that. CBR records are relatively rar-techniques containg distinctive records.)

Answer 4

extremely tough thing. query using yahoo or google. this can help!

Answer 5

Try http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/