[timmerk]

I just tried Media Rage. I used the "File Renamer" tool, which renamed all my mp3 filenames to [Artist] - [Song].mp3 based on the ID3 data. It worked. However, I assumed (bad assumption) that it would update my iTunes library to point to the new filepaths, so I wouldn't loose all my ratings, playcount, data added, etc info on my songs. I was wrong! Now iTunes shows that all songs are missing (with the "!" mark next to the song). Anyone know of a tool or Applescript that can try to fix these? I don't want to manually locate the songs - it would take a lifetime.

Thanks!

[SirCastor]

Try Doug's AppleScripts. He's got quite a lot of different things, and I imagine you can find one that will read the ID3 tags, and restore the names. If not it probably wouldn't be too difficult to write one

[- - e r i k - -]

Why would you want to do that? (I used to do it also back in the nineties). Let iTunes sort out your files for you.

[Fusion]

The simplest solution would be to obviously just reimport all your tracks into iTunes, but you will loose all your ratings & play counts.

I'm not sure there's anything you can do to retain that information being that you couldn't make a consistent algorithm to point to the new files if the filenames before were inconsistent.

And for future reference, there is an option in iTunes to "keep music folder organized" that will automatically keep all your filenames with the artist-album naming scheme. If you check this option after you already have tracks in iTunes, it will ask you to apply it to your already existent tracks. It works great.

[TETENAL]

Well, you could try using the "File Renamer" tool to rename the tracks back to the naming scheme that iTunes uses, if you previously used "keep music folder organized".