Re: [Easytag-mailing] txt renaming

[Mark Ferry <gnomeza gmail com>]

snvv wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008 12:02:19 you wrote:
>> snvv wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> I have a directory with some mp3 files like track1, track2 etc.
>>> I have a text file with the name of the songs.
>>> How can I use easytag to rename the files with the name of the songs in
>>> the text file?
>> Does writing a playlist file (Misc|Write Playlist) with the "Write only
>> list of files" option accomplish what you want to do?
>>
>> I guess you'll have to rename the playlist file manually afterwards if
>> having a .txt extention is important to you.
>>
> 
> Hello and thanks for the help
> No the playlist does not work.
> Let me explain more clearly the situation.
> In a directory I have 24 songs with names 01. Track1.mp3 02.Track2.mp3 etc
> In EasyTag i filled in ID3 Tag menu all info about Artist, Album, Year, etc. 
> and I renamed all files at once.
> 
> In the text file I have the 24 song titles. 
> What I really like is to mass rename either the mp3 file names with the titles 
> of the songs (in the text file) or (and) to mass rename the Title Tag in ID3 
> Tag of EasyTag. Otherwise I will have to file the song titles by hand and I 
> have more that 2000 titles to rename in total.
> 
OK! I misread you.

To rename the mp3 files using the filenames in the txt file, use
  Misc|Load Filenames from TXT...

You can then also get it to update the tags at the same time by
selecting "Run the current scanner for each file".

hth
  Mark