Re: [Banshee-List] renaming "unknown" files

[IBBoard <ibboard gmail com>]

And sometimes you don't *know* how to do the work, and so you post on a
mailing list to ask a helpful community whether there are any answers
that anyone else (who knows more than you) already uses that they can
give to you…

Given that the data all of the values will be in the database then it
won't be impossible to make a script to do the renaming based on
database entries, but I doubt it'll be anything close to a one-liner
either because of all of the caveats and cleaning that would be done.


> From a quick search for "banshee rename script", I did find an Ask
Ubuntu question [1] saying that "editing" the metadata without changing
it should be enough.

There's also a different question that suggests a quick database update
might trigger Banshee's renaming behaviour [2]. Make sure you backup the
database by copying the .db file, though!

Maybe those will be helpful.


[1]
https://askubuntu.com/questions/39344/is-there-a-way-for-banshee-to-rename-a-song-file-according-to-its-tags

[2] http://askubuntu.com/a/48490



On 02/09/16 17:59, Pat Mower wrote:
> Correct, but sometimes, you just have to do the work!
>
> Pat
>
>
> On 09/02/2016 09:11 AM, IBBoard wrote:
> > Yes, but that only gets you the data. It doesn't get you a "click here
> > to make all existing file names match their metadata" button. That would
> > require more scripting and the whole problem is that the "after the
> > fact" rename is not part of the default extension behaviour.
> >
> > Mingovia: Have you tried editing an unimportant field? (like "comment"
> > or "composer") It might trigger a rename, or Banshee might be too
> > intelligent and know that you changed something that won't affect the
> > file name.
> >
> > On 02/09/16 16:39, Pat Mower wrote:
> > > In your Home directory there is a ".config" directory, under which is a
> > > banshee directory.
> > >
> > > if you download and install (under a deb just apt-get install -y
> > > sqlitebrowser), you can look at the dbs.
> > >
> > > Pat
> > >
> > >
> > > On 09/01/2016 11:19 PM, David Eagle wrote:
> > > > I am afraid I don't understand what you are saying.  I am running
> > > > Linux.
> > > > The music files are in ~home/Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/01.
> > > > Track 1*.mp3
> > > >
> > > > I would like all of these files renamed to their correct song files,
> > > > in their correct album directories.  Do you know how to do this?  It
> > > > appears to be impossible to do this manually.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Pat Mower <pmower dslextreme com
> > > > <mailto:pmower dslextreme com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >      It is all in a data file under your home directory if you are
> > > >      using linux.  Windows, No Clue.  Should still be in a db.
> > > >
> > > >      Pat
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >      On 09/01/2016 10:33 PM, mingovia wrote:
> > > >
> > > >          I imported my music CDs into Banshee.  Many of the CDs were
> > > >          old, and did not
> > > >          have metadata.  So, the songs were put into "Unknown artist".
> > > >          I then added
> > > >          the metadata by hand.  I did this for about 100 CDs.  Now, I
> > > >          find out that
> > > >          this work I did failed to update the file names for all of
> > > >          these songs.
> > > >          Belatedly, I found the option to update the file names when
> > > >          you manually
> > > >          edit the metadata.  But, even though I now have updated my
> > > >          preferences to do
> > > >          this, it did not update all of the (thousands) of files that I
> > > >          already
> > > >          manually edited.  It looks like it will now work properly for
> > > >          any CDs I
> > > >          import and manually edit in the future.  But, this does not
> > > >          really help with
> > > >          my current situation.
> > > >
> > > >          Is there any way to force Banshee to go back and change all
> > > > of the
> > > >          (thousands of) file names to match the metadata I have
> > > > entered?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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