[Tutor] Rename files with numbers

[Ed Singleton]

Sorry, wrong list.

Many apologies.

Ed

On 01/11/05, Ed Singleton <singletoned at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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