by Alvaro Mera » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:32 pm
I have successfully used Bulk Rename Utility (
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php), for some time now. It allows you to change the name of the file in many ways, for files not yet added to the Library. For instance, you can select all the files in a folder belonging to an album and delete, modify, add, etc. information at the beginning of the file name, at the end or at any particular position and see how the names would look like in the adjacent column. If you are satisfied you have to click twice to make sure you want to change the file names. If you make a mistake, there is an “Undo” feature that allows you to recover.
If the files are already in the Library, I select the files in question, use the “Locate Moved/Missing files … in the File Menu (so that MM will re-establish the link with the original folder) and then right click over the marked songs to then select “Auto Tag from Filename” in the window that opens, which marks in yellow the results it will provide. If that is what I want, then I go ahead, if not, I play around until I get the changes presented the way I want them.
Make a copy of one small folder with say 6 songs and try this approach.
I have successfully used Bulk Rename Utility (http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php), for some time now. It allows you to change the name of the file in many ways, for files not yet added to the Library. For instance, you can select all the files in a folder belonging to an album and delete, modify, add, etc. information at the beginning of the file name, at the end or at any particular position and see how the names would look like in the adjacent column. If you are satisfied you have to click twice to make sure you want to change the file names. If you make a mistake, there is an “Undo” feature that allows you to recover.
If the files are already in the Library, I select the files in question, use the “Locate Moved/Missing files … in the File Menu (so that MM will re-establish the link with the original folder) and then right click over the marked songs to then select “Auto Tag from Filename” in the window that opens, which marks in yellow the results it will provide. If that is what I want, then I go ahead, if not, I play around until I get the changes presented the way I want them.
Make a copy of one small folder with say 6 songs and try this approach.