amarok to change file names?

[jmadero]

Hi All,

I use amarok 2 and I have a lot of files that are titled "Track #.mp3", in Amarok I have changed them to see as the real songs but the actual files are still the same. Is there a way to change the actual file names using amarok to match the tags I have inside of amarok?

The reason why I'd want to do this:

1. If my home folder becomes corrupt I don't have to redo 100's of songs (I have a backup but none the less

2. If I ever decide to use another program or if I'm in W7 using Windows Media Player classic it'd be nice to have it recognize the correct files without having to double up on the tag editing

If this isn't possible I'm going to wishlist it because I think it's functional and having a bunch of Track# files is a pain but impossible to get around when you have a lot of mix cd's

[Roxoff]

You've updated the ID3 tag information in the audio file, if you want to change the filenames, you can use a tool like Kid3, which should be available through your package manager and at kid3.sourceforge.net.

[bigtomrodney]

Yep there's a way to do this in Amarok and when I found it a few years ago I was blown away. I spent a whole weekend fixing all of my music!

If you right click on a song, album, artist or range of songs you get the option to "Organise Files". You will then be offered a dialogue in which you can customise your layout. I actually used mine to completely move the structure so that I had ~/Music/$ARTIST/$ALBUM/$TRACK.mp3

As an extension to that, when you add new music you can have it pulled in and moved to your configured music directory, rebuilding the names from the track tags so you end up stripping any superfluous information out of the filename. It really is an excellent tool.