Is there a Linux utility that can do this?

snowmagician · 04-15-2017, 04:20 PM

I have a lot of mp3 files named incorrectly. The ID3 tag, ( the information shown when playing within a music player ) is correct but the file name itself is incorrect.

Is there any Linux utility that can fix this?

jsbjsb001 · 04-15-2017, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowmagician

I have a lot of mp3 files named incorrectly. The ID3 tag, ( the information shown when playing within a music player ) is correct but the file name itself is incorrect.

Is there any Linux utility that can fix this?

A quick google search (the first two hits):

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/renam...ll-prompt.html
https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...script-in-unix

Have fun!

BW-userx · 04-15-2017, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowmagician

I have a lot of mp3 files named incorrectly. The ID3 tag, ( the information shown when playing within a music player ) is correct but the file name itself is incorrect.

Is there any Linux utility that can fix this?

Oh my I just write a script that uses this exiftools that uses the METADATA to rename the files to the tags.

would you like to see one of my scripts or write one yourself or ....?

BW-userx · 04-15-2017, 04:59 PM

Oh heck, I will just punch one out for you.

read them links provided in that other post to hopefully learn what is really going on with this script.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

working_dir=

script_dir=

while read FILENAME 
do

f=$FILENAME
path=${f%/*}
xfile=${f##*/}
title=${xfile%.*}
ext=${xfile##*.}

TITLE="`exiftool  -Title  "$FILENAME" -p '$Title'`"

newFileName="$TITLE"."mp3" 

mv -v "$FILENAME" "$path/$newFileName"

done < <(find "$working_dir" -type f -name "*.mp3")

that should do it. test it first if you decide to use it.

Just need to have exiftools installed.

hydrurga · 04-15-2017, 05:09 PM

If you want a GUI solution, Puddletag is nice. You can use it to bulk set filenames based on the track metadata.

BW-userx · 04-15-2017, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by hydrurga

If you want a GUI solution, Puddletag is nice. You can use it to bulk set filenames based on the track metadata.

Oh yeah Puddletag does that?
and I only used it for checking my tags and bulk setting of tags.

Never looked at it that hard I guess. always enjoying a bash script I suppose.

hydrurga · 04-15-2017, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by BW-userx

Oh yeah Puddletag does that?
and I only used it for checking my tags and bulk setting of tags.

Never looked at it that hard I guess. always enjoying a bash script I suppose.

Yup. Convert: Tag->File.

I always take the easiest way out - I don't have the bash script-fu like you.

BW-userx · 04-15-2017, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by hydrurga

Yup. Convert: Tag->File.

I always take the easiest way out - I don't have the bash script-fu like you.

hehe no fu 4 u more 4 me?

replica9000 · 04-16-2017, 07:47 AM

KID3 is another good GUI tool for this.