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need help renaming files for karaoke #215354 12/09/09 11:06 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5 X XcALiBrE OP Nutrimatic drinks dispenser
OP XcALiBrE Nutrimatic drinks dispenser X Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5	I'm trying to re-name my karaoke files. they are zipped files and I need to rename them to artist - song.zip The problem is they are mostly in the format cb60373-01 Kenny Chesney - When The Sun Goes Down.zip I'd like them re-named to Kenny Chesney - When The Sun Goes Down(CB).zip Then I can find by artist alot easier, and I can also create a list with arists so people can look at my disc book, and my hard drive list, but it's too hard tomake a list in it's current state. I'd do it manually, but I have 30,000 songs. I don't have that kind of time. It would take weeks to cycle through all the files, and re-name them. if ($file($left,2) == CB) $rename($file($remove($1,$file $+ (CB) $+ .zip) ??? Would that work?

Re: need help renaming files for karaoke XcALiBrE #215358 13/09/09 01:42 AM
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 183 T Thrull Vogon poet
Thrull Vogon poet T Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 183	Without knowing exactly how the files are named, any code I could give you would probably not function as intended. cb60373-01 Kenny Chesney - When The Sun Goes Down.zip They all being with cb followed by 5 numbers then a dash then two more numbers? If so, then this is fairly easy to do. If not, it would be more work but still doable as long as there is some type of pattern to it. Edit: Assuming the above is true, you'd could use something like... Pseudo-code Code: test file to make sure its something you want to change set a variable to capture everything but the first token replace .zip with (CB).zip rename the file to the variable Last edited by Thrull; 13/09/09 01:48 AM. Yar

Re: need help renaming files for karaoke Thrull #215389 14/09/09 12:05 AM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5 X XcALiBrE OP Nutrimatic drinks dispenser
OP XcALiBrE Nutrimatic drinks dispenser X Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5	what about just taking the one's labeled by a disc type and just taking the entire disc code and putting it on the end instead. example: cb60373-01 Kenny Chesney - When the sun goes down.zip becomes: Kenny Chesney - When the sun goes down(cb60373-01).zip

Re: need help renaming files for karaoke XcALiBrE #215390 14/09/09 03:05 AM
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 183 T Thrull Vogon poet
Thrull Vogon poet T Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 183	Originally Posted By: XcALiBrE what about just taking the one's labeled by a disc type and just taking the entire disc code and putting it on the end instead. example: cb60373-01 Kenny Chesney - When the sun goes down.zip becomes: Kenny Chesney - When the sun goes down(cb60373-01).zip Sure... Untested Code: var %filename filename var %filename.tok1 $gettok(%filename,1,32) var %filename.rem $remove(%filename,%filename.tok1) var %filename.output $replace(%filename.rem,.zip, $chr(40) $+ %filename.tok1 $+ $chr(41) $+ .zip) rename %filename %filename.output You'll need to test to see if the file exists and if you want to change it. It'd be a good idea to run a test on copies of files in another directory before actually running the script on the actual directory. And finally, BACK UP all your files in another directory first... Just in case something goes terribly wrong. Yar

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