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Using KRename To Renaming Your mp3 Collection

KRename: The Free Batch Renamer

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3) KRename Examples

3.4) Renaming Your mp3 Collection – Advanced Mode

We want all our mp3 (or ogg) files to have names formated like this NUMBER INTERPRET – TITLE and every album should get its own directory named INTERPRET – ALBUM. We assume that all your files are tagged properly. The template we use is quite simple, because the MP3-Info plugin provided everything we need.

If the mp3 plugin is missing on your system, you have to installed the KDE multimedia package. Some distributions (especially RedHat) removed mp3 support completely from their distributions so you will have to compile KDE multimedia from source or get binary packages from some other source.

The template looks like this: „[*mp3Artist] - [*mp3Album]/[##mp3Tracknumber] [*mp3Artist] - [*mp3Title]" To ensure that everything is capitalized correctly, I added a * in front of all tokens representing a text value. In front of [mp3Tracknumber] I added two #'s so that numbers are formated like "02" The / creates a directory for every new artist and album. So we have two parts here, the first in front of the slash is only responsible to create the new directory and place the files in it. The part behind the slash is the filename to which the files get renamed.

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Table of Contents:

1) Introduction
    1.1) What is KRename?
    1.2) How much does it cost?
    1.3) Where can I get it?
    1.4) I need help, whom can I ask?

2) Using KRename
    2.1) The First Start
    2.2) Adding Files
            2.2.1) File Previews
            2.2.2) Sorting Files
    2.3) Rename, Copy or Move?
    2.4) Plugins
    2.5) Building the filename
            2.5.1) Building the filename – Beginners Mode
            2.5.2) Building the filename – Advanced Mode
            2.5.3) Available tokens in KRename
            2.5.4) Advanced renaming features
            2.5.5) Date formatting
    2.6) Renaming Completed

3) Examples
     3.1) Sorting your picture collection – Beginners Mode
     3.2) Capitalizing some files – Beginners Mode
     3.3) Converting filenames to lower case – Advanced Mode
     3.4) Renaming your mp3 collection – Advanced Mode
     3.5) Replacing spaces with underscores – Advanced Mode

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