I haven't found a way to make the whole thing a one step process with foobar2000 yet. The columns (File Name, Artist, Title etc) can be reordered by dragging them and they can be re-sized, which is worth doing to make the columns you need easy to see if need be. Reading and Downloading Mp3Tag to try it out now It might seem a little confusing at first but once you get to know it and have it customized to your liking, I think Mp3Tag will make your life much easier. There's a few different 3rd party add-ons for foobar2000 dedicated to improving it's tagging functionality so out of curiosity I'll have a look later to see if one of them will do what you want and report back if I discover anything useful, but unless someone has a better idea, give Mp3Tag a spin. I know it's not exactly what you want but once you get to know it Mp3Tag makes renaming and/or tagging large numbers of files quick and easy. It can batch copy tags from one group of files to another (even different file types). It has a right click 'action' menu that can automatically remove data from specific tags or convert the tags to lower case or sentence case.

It can open and tag many file types, not just MP3. You can enter or change a field such as Artist for multiple files by highlighting them, typing the artist name into the template section on the left, right clicking on the files and selecting save. Mp3Tag lets you manually batch tag MP3s too. What if the title contains four words and the album name consists of three words? How would a program know what's what? I suspect using only a space to separate each field as per your example would be a bad idea. You can create presets for the re-naming/tagging function. You can open a bunch of MP3s and automatically batch create tags based on their file names, or batch rename them using the tags. Have you used Mp3Tag? It's awesome for that kind of thing once you get to know it. It shouldn't be hard to create them first, although I'd be inclined to convert the files to MP3 and then tag them. Generally the idea would be to copy any existing tags. I'm not sure about using the input file names to create tags to be added to the output file.

How does an automated process know what the change should be? ie How would it know to change 'Smith Project 123456.m4a' to 'Smith Joe 123456.mp3'? Your first example has an m4a with a particular title, and an output MP3 with a slightly different title. Run this action group against your selected files and Mp3tag will do the programmed step automatically for you.īut. To have this action always at hand, so create an 'action group', give it a name of your will, create and setup this single action within the newly created action group.

You want the filename to be set to the same content as stored in the title tag field? the file contains actually a tag field TITLE: 'Chance Big Country 01 The Crossing (7-83)' you have a music file of type MP3: 'Track 1.mp3' So the string '%TITLE%' means: this is a handle or variable name to let the user work with the content of the 'TITLE' tag field. to extract the content of a tag field, Mp3tag uses percent signs around the tag field name (like many other tagging applications too). structure of a string.Ī tag (think of a laundry label) is something called like ID3v1, ID3V2.3, ID3v2.4, APE and so on.Ī tag can be appended or prepended to the music data.Ī music file can contain different types of tags (often this causes errors and more work).ĭifferent player devices or computer systems may support different tag types.Ī tag field is some storage place in a tag.Ī tag field has a name, e.

This is not a 'tag', but a so called 'format string', it defines the format resp.

Mp3tag filename to title