ID3 renamer - easily rename all of your MP3 files

Posted by ClifNotes, Jun 2008, permalink Music Management

What would you do if you had to rename thousands of MP3 files that all had stupid 4 letter names? I had a chance to find that out this week.

While at work a few weeks ago, I borrowed Jeff's iPod to see if I could get some of his music for our annual Regatta party. I hooked it up using the USB cable that was with it and when I attached it to my PC, I was able to see the iPod hard drive just like it was a regular USB thumb drive. I selected everything on the iPod and copied it to my backup drive. Then I safely returned Jeff's music machine to his bench and went back to work.

The next free period I had, I looked into what it was that I'd copied over. What a freaky mess! There were dozens of folders that included hundreds of MP3 files that were all named with only 4 letters each. Maybe that's the standard format for the Apple players, but I had no idea what each song was.

I grabbed about 650mb of these and dropped them onto a handy thumb drive and took them home. After a short while searching at my favorite download site, I hoped I had found the solution to my naming problem.

ID3 renamer came to my rescue. It was so simple to install and run. I fired it up, selected the thumb drive and clicked the GO button. In about 3 seconds, it renamed most of the MP3s using the embedded ID3 tag information. There were about 10 files that didn't have good tags, so I had to rename those manually. That's not bad considering that I had 127 files in this first batch.

Thumbs up on this tool. The only problem I had was believing how fast it renamed the files.

PS: I'm definitely an audio newby. Tell me if you have a better solution.

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Quote from the website
• Able to rename tens of thousands of files by reading your ID3 tags to whichever naming convention you choose with only a few mouse clicks.
• Able to write to and from ID3 tags using an intuitive, tabbed interface.
• Automatic update feature (spyware free).
• Many intelligent features, such as adding padding digits to filenames.
• Very small filesize and low CPU demands mean the program will not take up valuable space and speed on your computer.

Home page for ID3 renamer
http://www.id3renamer.com/


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