Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Re-naming Those Pesky WMA Files
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 04:36 PM
Ok, I need some help here. I've switched over from my very retro use of Auduigrabber and the XING MP3 encoder to Windows Media Player 9 and VBR WMA files. Windows Media Player has really evolved as a digital audio tool, and I'm finally comfortable using it all the time now. Here's my problem: while WMP9 is fantastic for getting the right CD metadata (album name, artist, track title, etc), it's not so good about putting the file names just the way I want them. I have thousands and thousands of MP3s from my 500+ CD collection that are in a very specific file name format: (Artist) - Song title.mp3. Yes, I'm Mr. "Type A" Personality, because I want all my songs to be in the same format. I found a wonderful program by the name of Zortam ID3 Tag Editor that will automatically re-name the file based on the meta-tag information, and vice-versa. The problem? It doesn't work with WMA files and the author has no plans to add WMA support! :evil:
So here's the request - does anyone know of any application that would allow me to do this quickly and easily? Any developer out there want to hack together a .NET app for me? :wink: It just drives me insane that Microsoft wouldn't allow for custom file naming schemes. They come very close, but I can't do the above naming format (unless I'm missing something).
So here's the request - does anyone know of any application that would allow me to do this quickly and easily? Any developer out there want to hack together a .NET app for me? :wink: It just drives me insane that Microsoft wouldn't allow for custom file naming schemes. They come very close, but I can't do the above naming format (unless I'm missing something).