Does anyone know if it's possible for WMP11 to rename underlying MP3
filenames using info from WMP11's tags? For example, I want to use a track's
WMP11 artist name, album name, track number and track name tags to rename the
MP3 file underlying that same library track.

My issue is that although my library is pretty organized (20k+ tracks) using
the tags within WMP11 , the underlying MP3 filenames are unchanged from their
original filenames and do not always have complete or consistent information.
As well, if I ever exported these tracks to another computer, I want to
remove the risk that the tags won't be recognized, as has happened to me
before when transitioning from one program to another (e.g. from MMJB to WMP).

FWIW, MusicMatch JukeBox had a cool feature where you could "reverse tag"
your files wherein it references the tag information to derive a new name for
each track in the batch of tracks you have selected (even the whole library
if you wanted - it would just take a while). As a result, I was able to
rename all of my MP3 files into a consistent format.

Is this something I can do in WMP11?

Re: Renaming MP3 Files by zachd

zachd
Thu Jul 03 00:31:37 PDT 2008


Yep, using the Rename and Rearrange features of WMP's Tools:Options:Library
pane.

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"casamack" <casamack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if it's possible for WMP11 to rename underlying MP3
> filenames using info from WMP11's tags? For example, I want to use a
> track's
> WMP11 artist name, album name, track number and track name tags to rename
> the
> MP3 file underlying that same library track.
>
> My issue is that although my library is pretty organized (20k+ tracks)
> using
> the tags within WMP11 , the underlying MP3 filenames are unchanged from
> their
> original filenames and do not always have complete or consistent
> information.
> As well, if I ever exported these tracks to another computer, I want to
> remove the risk that the tags won't be recognized, as has happened to me
> before when transitioning from one program to another (e.g. from MMJB to
> WMP).
>
> FWIW, MusicMatch JukeBox had a cool feature where you could "reverse tag"
> your files wherein it references the tag information to derive a new name
> for
> each track in the batch of tracks you have selected (even the whole
> library
> if you wanted - it would just take a while). As a result, I was able to
> rename all of my MP3 files into a consistent format.
>
> Is this something I can do in WMP11?