Hello. I know there are many apps out there that allows you to organize your music. I'm specifically looking for an app that can change all of my music file names to a certain format. For example, I want all my music to have the "title-artistname.mp3" or "artistname-title.mp3" file name format. I could manually go though all my music and rename them, but I was hoping that there is an app out there or even a program for windows that can do this for me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Music Organization
- Thread starter marcur12
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Welcome to Android Forums, @marcur12 
I used a Windows app a few years back to clean up and standardize my collection of MP3s. It was able to batch-convert the filenames AND corresponding ID3 tags to my desired format. I can't remember for sure, but I believe the application I used was MP3Tag.
I don't have any experience with doing that on Android though.
I used a Windows app a few years back to clean up and standardize my collection of MP3s. It was able to batch-convert the filenames AND corresponding ID3 tags to my desired format. I can't remember for sure, but I believe the application I used was MP3Tag.
I don't have any experience with doing that on Android though.
For file renaming I have used several - lots come up with a 'google'. The latest one I tried was 'Ant Renamer' ... http://www.antp.be/software/renamer ... (I'm on XP Pro ...). Seemed to work fine - I was renaming some jpg files but they were spread out over many folders, 1 per folder. I wanted to rename from 'artist-album'.jpg to 'cover.jpg. This managed it in one go so it gets the thumbs-up from me!
And seconded for mp3tag for the actual tags ....
Dave
And seconded for mp3tag for the actual tags ....
Dave
RazzMaTazz
Android Expert
I've tried several but I found the free Windows program TagScanner to be the best by far. It's wonderful. It can do what the OP requested, and it can do just about any renaming function that you could imagine.
MP3Tag is free to try (for 30 days) but it's $24.99. No thanks. Not when there's an excellent free solution like TagScanner!
If by chance, you already use the free MediaMonkey media player on your PC, MediaMonkey can also do such tag-based renaming (from the Tools menu), but it's not as powerful (and arguably not as intuitive) as TagScanner. Though MediaMonkey, when used in conjunction with MediaMonkey for Android, provides a complete PC-Android synchronization & music management solution (like iTunes-iPhone, only better).
MP3Tag is free to try (for 30 days) but it's $24.99. No thanks. Not when there's an excellent free solution like TagScanner!
If by chance, you already use the free MediaMonkey media player on your PC, MediaMonkey can also do such tag-based renaming (from the Tools menu), but it's not as powerful (and arguably not as intuitive) as TagScanner. Though MediaMonkey, when used in conjunction with MediaMonkey for Android, provides a complete PC-Android synchronization & music management solution (like iTunes-iPhone, only better).
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Nope. mp3tag is free as the wind ... see ... http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html ...
You must have been thinking of some other program ...
Dave
There are admittedly a lot of programs with the same/similar name, but yeah, I definitely don't remember paying for (or being prompted to pay for) the linked Mp3tag app.
RazzMaTazz
Android Expert
Yup, that sounds like the sort of thing you'd get from cnet.
Glad we got it cleared up!