Mass rename music files for Noise
It's true that Noise automatically rename music files with "Keep music folder organized" feature but it will be better to give user freedom to mass rename their music files according certain pattern they choose. I know elementary try to keep its apps simple for average user but adding this little feature is not too complicated for average user.
Other music players (e.g. gmusicbrowser) use regex as rename pattern.
Example:
%n. %t = rename files to "tracknumber. title" ----> "09. Hysteria"
%a - %t = rename files to "artist - title" ----> "Muse - Hysteria"
But the pattern UI of course can be more user-friendly a la elementary.
This feature will works great only if these bugs fixed:
bug #994428 and bug #994430
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Related bugs
| Bug #994428: Noise can't write or read mp3 tag correctly | Confirmed |
| Bug #994430: noise can't remove deleted items correctly | New |
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Regexxes are far too complicated for an elementary app. If we ever decide to add this option, I guess it would be done through a drop list or something simpler. -- Victor E.
I use the "mass rename" feature in Clementine ALLLL the time. Because I rip training CD's for my occupation and when I name the Artist (the name of my company) and Album (the subject and speaker on that CD) before ripping that information never seems to get written into the meta data of the tracks. Its a bug I know, but currently unavoidable. And I always have the Artist name the exact same for all the CD's for my training. And editing the Artist and Album of each and every track just is soooo tedious. :-( -- Daniel C.
