mass mp3 directory renaming

schbond · 01-04-2007, 01:39 PM

I am trying to re-structure my mp3 directories. I currently have the following format:

artist-album-catalog-year

and I would like to rename the directories to:

catalog-artist-album-year

I was thinking of using a GUI mp3 tagging program, but most of my mp3's don't have a CATALOG tag. Also, I don't want to rename the files within the directories, just the directories themselves.

Any help would be appreciated.

MensaWater · 01-04-2007, 01:53 PM

Since I don't have these directories I haven't tried the following so do it at your own risk.

Go to parent directory then:

Code:

for DIRNAME in `ls -d *`
do NEWDIRNAME=`echo $DIRNAME |awk -F- '{print $3"-"$1"-"$2"-"$4}'` 
   mv $DIRNAME $NEWDIRNAME
done

The awk -F- says to use awk to split the name up and use the dash (-) as the delimiter. This makes your original name 4 fields in the order you see them. The print statment moves what was the 3rd field to the 1st field in the ouput. You have to reinsert the "-" litterally there.

Try it first with "echo" in place of "mv" to insure it gives you what you want for old name and new name.

schbond · 01-04-2007, 02:14 PM

It took a little bit of tweaking, but awk was the tool I was looking for! Thanks, jlightner!

MensaWater · 01-04-2007, 02:17 PM

No problem. You might want to post your final tweaked code that worked for people searching the forum later.

Xeratul · 01-05-2007, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schbond

I am trying to re-structure my mp3 directories. I currently have the following format:

artist-album-catalog-year

and I would like to rename the directories to:

catalog-artist-album-year

I was thinking of using a GUI mp3 tagging program, but most of my mp3's don't have a CATALOG tag. Also, I don't want to rename the files within the directories, just the directories themselves.

Any help would be appreciated.

there is too a kde apps for renaming ...

krename