some times iam working with a folder that is just a dump of files
eg
Dance To The Bop - Gene Vincent.mp3
Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells.mp3
lets say i fine the album on a webpage and copy text to clipboard
eg
Dance To The Bop - Gene Vincent
Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells
how to Match and rename files
so you get
(1. Dance To The Bop - Gene Vincent.mp3
(2. Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells.mp3
with out (
i know i can do this by hand but some times there might be a 20 cd box set just dumped in one folder
just named like Dance To The Bop - Gene Vincent.mp3
There's a clipboard icon in the bottom right of the rename dialog that opens a menu with options to assign names from the clipboard to the current list of files.
(If the icon is disabled, turn off the macro mode checkbox directly to the left of it.)
If you need something beyond that, to make it somehow match the current files to what's in the clipboard (beyond just using line 1 for file 1, line 2 for file 2, etc.) then you'll need to specify how that might work with more information.
how to automate this BY HAND LIKE THIS
folder of files like this
Glen Campbell - Gentle On My Mind.mp3
i copy to clipboard this 1. Gentle On My Mind - Glen Campbell
paste Gentle On My Mind in to filter box do finds the file
then right click and paste 1. Gentle On My Mind - Glen Campbell does that help
sometimes iam working on files that have no tags
eg all i have at the start is file names
It's Four In the Morning - Faron Young.mp3
you can see that it has no track # at the start and might be a box set dumped in one folder with one the folder name giving me a a hint of album / boxset name
so i do a search on the web and find the album then listing to get the right track # or what ever the place all track in folders cd1 cd2
once i have
1.It's Four In the Morning - Faron Young.mp3 or what ever then can add tags
You could try doing that with a script but my guess is your filenames and what's in the text file won't match all of the time.
Any kind of fuzzy matching is going to be harder. It'd be easier just to add the track numbers to the filenames by hand than write a script for that.
You can speed up adding track numbers by switching on manual sorting in the main file display (not the rename dialog), then drag the files into the order they are on on the CD, then select them all and click thr Rename button. You can then easily number all the files using the options in the rename dialog, which will number them in the order they were arranged into.
(More generally, if you're ripping the CDs yourself, you can configure the ripping software to do this for you in most cases.)
manual sorting could help can i do this with a button
my thinking is
have a list of files click manual sorting button opens an empty right side listter
then i could drag the files from left to right ,,, i hope you understand what i mean
Basically you need to manually sort your list of files, then select them and click the Rename button to open the Rename dialog, and use the clipboard button to paste in the new filenames from the clipboard.