#KID3 RENAME FILES MANUAL#

You'd thinkthat doing both at the same time would make common sense. By this I mean that it reads like there is no way to create the artist directory AND rename the file to whatever I want at the same time and place the renamed file into that directory.

#KID3 RENAME FILES MANUAL#

The manual may not be perfect, but it contains at least a description for all functions. All other files will only be saved when you choose 'File/Save', so it is under your control what to mess up. You can then review the changes and revert the changes which you do not want by selecting the corresponding files and then using 'File/Revert'. If any file names are changed after clicking 'Apply Filename Format', the files are marked with a disk symbol and the file name field is marked. Your file names will probably only contain ASCII characters, so it will not do anything if you click 'Apply Filename Format'.

'String replacement': If your file names contain any of the characters in the 'From' column, it will replace those characters by the character in the 'To' column.

to 'All first letters uppercase', and it will do exactly that if 'Apply Filename Format' is clicked. 'Case conversion': Is by default set to 'No changes', therefore it will only do something if you change it, e.g.64 if you want to write your files to a CD), file names will be truncated if longer and 'Apply Filename Format' is clicked. If you activate it and set it to a lower value (e.g. 'Maximum length': If by default deactivated and has a rather large value of 255.

If you look at the options in the 'Filname Format' section of the 'Files' tab you see the following:

But, in the case of various artists collections, I want to create, within the directory, a directory named for the artist and the particular title's file moved into that difrectory and renamed to only the title. This basically would not be an issue for directories containing songs of a single artist. The help for 'Tools/Apply Filename Format' is no help at all. I wish that the help that comes with this program had examples.

Kid3 rename files