audio-rename

This program renames your files by picking title and artist from its metadata.

Example: 01 - Piano & I.mp3 is being renamed to Alicia Keys - Piano & I.mp3

Motivation

While people have a growing music library, oftentimes the file names are messy and inconsistent.

This program cleans up your files and you get a homogenous file name structure.

Supported formats

• MP3/MP2/MP1 (ID3 v1, v1.1, v2.2, v2.3+)
• Wave/RIFF
• OGG
• OPUS
• FLAC
• WMA
• MP4/M4A/M4B/M4R/M4V/ALAC/AAX/AAXC
• AIFF/AIFF-C

see https://github.com/devsnd/tinytag#Features

Procedure

The program scans a directory for audio files.

interactive version: For each file, when metadata is present, the program proposes its renaming which the user can confirm or not. The proposed file name has the pattern artist - title.mp3 (or other audio file extensions). In case you deny the proposed renaiming (for example when metadata is empty and the proposed file name is bad), the program asks you to rename it manually. You then enter a new file name manually or decide to leave its present file name. So for each file, you are in control if and how it should be renamed.

non-interactive version: The program goes through the files and renames them without asking. Here it is recommendend to be conservative and work through smaller amounts of files.

Get started

1. Download the file
2. Open it in your Python IDE (I recommend PyCharm)
3. Paste the target path into the variable quotes of main_folder = r"C:\path\to\your\audio\folder"
4. Run

Setting up a test folder for a first try is recommended as the file names will be overwritten.

Development setup

Required external libraries are

• TinyTag: https://github.com/devsnd/tinytag

pip install TinyTag

Meta

Author: Jonas Dossmann

Distributed under the GPL-3.0 license.

https://github.com/dossma/