[xubuntu-users] Renaming mp3 files from meta data

[Chris Spackman]

On 2015/01/11 at 02:56pm, Andy Proctor wrote:

> To save me opening >1200 files one by one, there must be a way to
> read the meta data and rename the file or as a minimum sort by meta
> data? A web search has not produced many pearls of wisdom, apart
> from a program called mp3tag which is unfortunately M$Windows based.

Have you tried EasyTag? I know it will read file names and add tags
from them, and I think it does the reverse as well.

Have a look at "Show Scanner" and then choose "Rename Files and
Directories". It gives options for renaming from tags. That should do
what you need, I think.

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