Music Renaming
The music renaming function allows you to extract information from music files and rename the file according to a user defined pattern. The information is based on the metadata tags contain within most music files. The following music formats are supported: Mp3, Ogg Vorbis, Off Speex and Flac.
- Style - Here you choose what you want your music filenames to look like. There are three predefined styles that you can choose from, or you can use the Custom mode to freely design the rename pattern. A pattern is built up using
<tags>and combining them with other characters. The tags are then replaced with information extracted from the Mp3 file. By clicking on the button to the right of the textbox, you will see a list of all tags. Click on one to add it to your pattern.- Further reading: How to use format tags
- Tip: The predefined styles can be change by clicking the edit button.
- Options: (only applicable to Mp3 files)
- Use ID3v2 if available - There are two versions of the ID3 tag. The first version is limited to 32 characters per field, which is sometimes not enough. Version two removes this limit, and also adds new fields. ID3v1 is still the most commonly used tag, although ID3v2 is increasing in popularity. By marking this checkbox, you tell Flash Renamer to always use the ID3v2 field if it can be found within the file.
- Use Lyrics instead of ID3v1 - The lyrics tag can also hold artist & song information. It is not very common, but if it is present and the ID3v2 tag is not, then it is often better to use since it can hold longer string that ID3v1.
Problem: -
You have a large music collection and want to organize it.
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By using the SubFolder
<\>tag you can move your files into subfolders named after different properties of the file. Put all your music in one folder and enter this format string:<ARTIST><\><ALBUM><\><TITLE>Now all your will end up in nicely organized folders, sorted by artist and album name.
Or try entering
<GENRE><\><FULLNAME>to sort your music according to their genre. You decide!Note: For this to work it requires all your files to have valid metadata tags.
- Use ID3v2 if available - There are two versions of the ID3 tag. The first version is limited to 32 characters per field, which is sometimes not enough. Version two removes this limit, and also adds new fields. ID3v1 is still the most commonly used tag, although ID3v2 is increasing in popularity. By marking this checkbox, you tell Flash Renamer to always use the ID3v2 field if it can be found within the file.