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Title: Renaming the "Song Titles"
Post by: davemccorkle on December 15, 2003, 09:16:33 am

I am looking for a way to add back the track numbers to each of my "Song Titles".  When I started my library I did not include the track numbers with the names of each song, now I want to add them back.  I cannot seem to find a way to append the track number to the name of the song without doing it manually.  Can anyone help with this?

Title: Re:Renameing the "Song Titles"
Post by: JorgeGVB on December 15, 2003, 10:10:45 am

Actually, it is pretty simple to do.  Go into Library Tools and select Rename Files From Properties.  There are many file name options available.

Title: Re:Renameing the "Song Titles"
Post by: KingSparta on December 15, 2003, 10:21:27 am

like rename rule:

[Track #] - [Album] - [Artist] - [Name]

Title: Re:Renaming the "Song Titles"
Post by: davemccorkle on December 15, 2003, 03:29:55 pm

I do not see a way to rename the "Name" field.  THis looks like it will rename the file not the tag portion of the song name.  

Title: Re:Renaming the "Song Titles"
Post by: Marko on December 15, 2003, 03:43:40 pm

have a look at "fill properties from filename"

You really want the track # and the track name in the [name] field?

Did you think about making your own calculated field for this?

Look at the "Tools > options > tree and view settings" dialogues. Click the "add" button and it's all pretty intuitive from there on.

Title: Re:Renaming the "Song Titles"
Post by: davemccorkle on December 15, 2003, 04:56:24 pm

When you RIP a cd it puts the track number in frot of the track name.  I alwasys removed it.  Now I want to put it back.  My directory structure is fine.  I have Artist/album/track # Name.  I use an auditron that reads all my music from the PC and plays it over my stereo.  If I am searching for song #4 on a certain CD than I must know the name of the track.

Thanks

Title: Re:Renaming the "Song Titles"
Post by: Nolonemo on December 15, 2003, 05:05:23 pm

Foobar 2000 contains a mass tagger that will let you combine the contents of two fields into whatever field you want.  Look on http://www.foobar2000.org/ for download, and http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showforum=28& to ask people how to use it.

Or, if you filenames are in the format "01 songname - artist" or similar you could use an autotagger to fill the fields (field "title", delimiter " - " field "artist").  (If you have the same delimiter between track no and what follows though, you won't be able to do this, I think)

Title: Re:Renaming the "Song Titles"
Post by: JorgeGVB on December 16, 2003, 06:43:09 am

Quote from: davemccorkle on December 15, 2003, 04:56:24 pm

When you RIP a cd it puts the track number in frot of the track name.  I alwasys removed it.  Now I want to put it back.  My directory structure is fine.  I have Artist/album/track # Name.  I use an auditron that reads all my music from the PC and plays it over my stereo.  If I am searching for song #4 on a certain CD than I must know the name of the track.

Dave,

I also use AudioTron for playing my mp3s through my stereo and I use the following file name set up in MC:

[Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Name]

In my case, I tend to listen to albums and not just particular songs.  I am not sure if you rename the file name with the Track # first you will get what you are looking for.  I don't think MC is going to insert the Track # in the name field.  If you figure it out, let us know what you come up with .

Jorge