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Cleaning up my music files
Sci-Fi Wasabi
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So I started using foobar2000 and realized how messy my mp3s are. Using foobar's built in tagger I corrected typos and missing information. The problem is now my raw mp3 files are named incorrectly. What is the best program to take the updated, correct tags I've made and write new file names to the songs themselves?
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Indeed it can, it's actually very powerful in that area. I have several profiles set up for organizing my files, and my most frequently used one looks like this:
$upper($left($swapprefix(%album artist%),1))\$swapprefix(%album artist%)\%album%$ifgreater(%totaldiscs%,1,' ('Disc $num(%discnumber%,1)')',)[ '['%date%']']\$if(%track%,%track%. ,)%artist% - $ifgreater($len(%title%),100,$cut(%title%,100),%title%)To explain what this does, let's say that we have a 2 disc album like "Brotherhood" by "The Chemical Brothers." The above syntax would organize my files in my music folder like this: