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

[Christian Perreault <christian perreault 2 gmail com>]

Hello!

As another suggestion, I strongly recommend the MusicBrainz Picard (open source) software. It can rename/move your files according to their metadata. Also, you can add the AcousticID to analyze your tracks and match them with very accurate databases on the Web.

If you don't want to make sure that Banshee detects the file moving, and not recognize the tracks as new ones (and risk loosing information about these tracks in Banshee), make sure that Banshee runs and has the "Library extension" enable while you rename your file.

Good luck!

Le 2016-09-02 à 15:16, David Eagle a écrit :

Your suggestion to edit an unimportant field worked!!!!!

That was a great idea!  Very creative!

It is still some work for me, because I have to touch every song in my library.  But, it is a lot safer because what I have to do is pretty mindless.

Just as a final comment on this topic, it seems to me that when you change your preferences to "automatically change file names", Banshee should ask if you want to update your entire collection (and then, of course, do it for me automagically).

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:11 AM, IBBoard <ibboard gmail com> 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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