Rename files with numbers

[Ed Singleton]

The best free app I've found for this is MusicBrainz [www.musicbrainz.com].

This has a huge database of obsessively correct details of albums
which can be formatted in anyway you choose.  It can automatically
recognise which song an MP3 is!

This is a similar script I wrote to renumber files in sequential
order.  It assumes that everything before the first underscore can be
replaced.

from path import path
import re

def renumberfiles(filesdir, startnum=1):
    d = path(filesdir)
    print d
    x = startnum
    for f in d.files():
        fname = f.name.split('_', 1)
        fname = str(x).zfill(2) + "_" + fname[-1]
        fname = re.sub(r" ",r"_",fname)
        fname = re.sub(r"__",r"_",fname)
        x = x + 1
        print f.name, "==>",
        f.rename(f.parent + "\\" + fname)
        print fname

As you can see, I use the path module rather than os.path.  it's a
much more intuitive way of handling files.

http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/

Ed

On 01/11/05, Dave Benjamin <ramen at lackingtalent.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Micah Elliott wrote:
>
> > On Oct 31, Micah Elliott wrote:
> >> Now I need to go beautify my collection.  :-)
> >
> > While a fun exercise, there are probably already dozens (or
> > thousands?) of utilities in existence that do this and much more.
>
> Seconded. I initially considered writing a script to rename a huge pile of
> MP3 files, but halfway through, I thought, "there's *got* to be a better
> way". I found this app: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
>
> Bought it the next day. Holy crap, what a gigantic timesaver. It looks up
> albums based on track lengths, downloads titles from freedb and Amazon,
> does ID3 tagging, renaming, moves files into separate directories... I
> busted through about 20 gigs of MP3s in three days. I kid you not.
>
> If this is just a fun toy Python project, don't let me discourage you, but
> if you have more than a handful of albums to rename, trust me. This
> problem has been solved.
>
> Here's a list of apps, including Tag&Rename, that can query freedb:
> http://www.freedb.org/freedb_aware_apps.php
>
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