Music Cleaner

[erik_26]

Can anyone suggest a good free program that will clean up your music library? I have thousands of songs and I don't feel like going through them 1 by 1 to remove the track number from the title (ex... 04 One.MP3). Nor do I feel like going through to change the different spellings of the same artist. Also one that would make sure that the right album is associated with the MP3.

[steadyrock]

sed will do that nicely.

ETA - just saw the bit about editing the ID3 tag as well. sed won't be much help there.

[TonyM]

Checkout TagScanner, it will rename by querying the tag info in about any format you tell it, and it can grab tag info from online databases like amazon, etc.

http://www.xdlab.ru/en/

They have a bunch of sample formats for the rename included and you can add your own presets. The format rule I use is to break them down into folders for the artists and albums:

%artist%\%album%\%track% - %title%