I have various MP3 files whose titles are so long that I can't tell the difference between them on the little screen on my player. For example, "Unit 1 Grammar Lesson 1. Masculine forms" and "Unit 1 Grammar Lesson 2. Feminine forms" look the same because the screen only shows the first 10 or so characters.
I have Tag&Rename, but I don't think it includes this functionality.
Can anyone recommend software for performing search & replaces in track titles? I want to replace every instance of "Grammar Lesson " with "GL", for example.
Thanks.
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Here's a screenshot showing how to rename multiple "new text document" files to "new text docs"
Renaming files
Okay, I installed that app, but there's no help or FAQ explaining how to do this.
On the features list on the webpage http://rename.lupasfreewar
Do you know what the syntax is for doing this? Is it something like "<title>substring1</title>"?
Thanks.
My apologies I miss read the question.
MP3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/do
Having siad that I'm sure that lupas rename will work for you. Changing the file name will change the "title" tag.
Track rename 2
Track rename 1
Renamer is a great program for this. I have used it to do exactly what you are looking to do. Below is a link to it:
http://www.snapfiles.com/g
Sorry for disappearing for so long.
@orangecraws
I've downloaded and explored Renamer, but it only edits file names as far as I can tell. I see no way to do that search & replace for the track *title*. Like everything else.
@weedavie
The screen shots you posted for Lupas only show edits for the file name and I don't see a way to change the target of the action to the title tag.
However, I finally figured it out with Mp3Tag. You can do it in Mp3Tag v2 (http://www.mp3tag.de).
Here's the process:
CONVERT --> ACTIONS --> NEW --> [name your custom action] --> NEW--> [Choose REPLACE] --> [Choose the TITLE tag and enter the find & replace values--> SAVE
Then you just select the action and hit OK to run it. Whenever you want to do a new tweak, edit the action and change the find & replace strings as needed.
Voila!
Man, that was like Quest for Fire. I'm surprised by how hard it was to figure out a way to do this. This can't be that usual a need.
I understand why this isn't a standard feature. The last thing you want to do is accidentally give a bunch of songs the same title, but in the case of multi-part lectures this very handy.
BTW, here are the programs that I tried and which as far as I can tell do NOT allow you to edit the title tag (at least in their freeware version):
* Lupas Rename 2000
* Mp3/Tag Studio v3.05
* MP3 Rename
* ReNamer
Judging by this post, it sounds like this Foobar 2000 app (which I know nothing about) might also allow these kinds of tag edits. But I didn't try it out.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.o
Thanks for the help, folks.
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by: weedaviePosted on 2009-04-25 at 18:21:24ID: 24234174
I was going to suggest DOS commands but this program is much easier. Lupas Rename 2000
It will do what you're looking for.
David