Re: Batch Renaming CD files

There are probably hundreds of programs that you can do the ripping with, and Windows Media Player may not be the best choice. You probably want to rip them to MP3 files rather than WMA files, for a number of reasons (although it's probably true that WMA is slightly higher quality at any given bit rate). (Some versions of Windows Media Player can rip to your choice of MP3 or WMA, some to WMA only (in some cases, WMA only unless you BUY a 3rd party add-on). You will have to select a bitrate for the ripping. The "standard" choice is 128k bps, but actually I'd recommend a higher bitrate, 160k to as much as 320k bps (the files will get larger as you use higher bitrates, but the quality will be higher also).

Many, perhaps most of the programs that do ripping can also do tagging IF you are doing the ripping from purchased commercially pressed CDs. Gracenote is probably the most widely used source of information for that purpose [but note, you WILL get a surprising number of wrong tag information].

Normally the programs have an option (sometimes deeply burried) to let you select the format of the file names that the songs are saved under. The amount of flexibility that you get for this purpose varies widely.

Programs commonly used for ripping include MusicMatch Jukebox, Windows Media Player, Audiograbber and Exact Audio Copy (plus hundreds and hundreds of other lesser known rippers).


RSMBob wrote:
Thank you, yes, I am mis-using the term...I am not burning to CD, I am ripping my audio CDs to the PC.

That being said, when I rip them, the info comes up on all of them through the WIndows Media player (through Gracenote) with song titles, album info, etc., but the file names themselves come out as Track #_Song Title, and I am trying to get rid of the track number for sorting purposes although I'd like the info still to be there so that I can play the CD in its intended order.

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:522D1B4C41A64CC99137128F459C16B5@xxxxxxxx
I believe the confusion is that he is misusing a term. He says he is
burning his CDs.

He's not. He's ripping his CDs to his hard drive from real audio CDs.

Fixtunes tags them once they are ripped. It uses a huge library of
information to identify the song and tag it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Watzman [mailto:WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:16 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Batch Renaming CD files
Subject: Re: Batch Renaming CD files

You are doing a lot of things dumbly.

First, why are you using CDs and not DVDs? [Granted that DVDs won't
play directly in most audio CD players, but for storing your
collection,
it's the way to go. You will get over 1,000 songs on one DVD.]

Second, why are you burning the files from a music application? Just
burn them as data files using a CD burning application (Roxio or
Nero).
Use the full, main, ISO-compliant application, do not use any of the
"dumbed down" shortcuts for people who don't really know how to create
and burn optical media with a full optical media burning application
(e.g. learn how to use such an application if you have to).

Your MP3's should be "tagged". This puts ALL of the information about
the song INTO the MP3 file itself. This information includes:

-Song title
-Artist Name
-Album Name
-Track number
-Publication date
-A lot more, including comments

However, if they are not tagged, tagging them (which can be done with
almost any music software) is a TON of work, can take hundreds of
hours
to tag every song in a large collection. But there are HUGE benefits,
since most MP3 players and Windows itself (in the View/Detail) mode
know
about tagging and can display the tag information and if desired sort
on
it. There are ways to have your entire collection automatically
tagged
based on music databases available on the internet, but this never
seems
to actually work as well as it sounds.


RSMBob wrote:
> I just got a new Dell desktop computer and I have been busy burning
all
> of my CD collection to my hard drive...got about 250 CDs burned so
far
> to go along with my collection of MP3s.
>
> The computer has Vista on it and it is burning the CDs with Windows
> Media in WMA format. Here's my question...the CD tracks are saved
with
> the file name such as "02 Night Moves". Can I batch rename the
thousands
> of songs in any way to get rid of the "02" so that the file name is
just
> the title of the song? This would allow be to more easily eliminate
> duplicates. And even better, can I do this so that the "02" is
preserved
> in some way so that it knows that the 2nd song on Bob Seger's
Greatest
> Hits is Night Moves?


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