Hi Annie, If these ePub files are in your iTunes library, I think you can just use some of the AppleScripts for iTunes at Doug Adams' web site to automate changing the titles. The only thing I'm wondering is if the whether the epub files use the same keywords. I think that the file name field is just "name", which is the same as the "name" track for music tracks. And for my ePub books, the author is entered into the "artist" field. Probably the "This Tag That Tag" AppleScript could be used for this. From the description, I think the way this AppleScript works is that you select your tracks in iTunes, then you run the script, which you just locate by name "This Tag That Tag" under the scripts menu. This menu shows up once you copy the AppleScript to a "Library/iTunes/Scripts" folder under your user account. If you have never used AppleScripts in iTunes before, you'll have to create the "Scripts" folder in this location. Once you've selected this AppleScript, a dialog menu should come up to let you choose what action you want to take with your tags: copy, append, swap, or prepend. In this case you'd select "copy". Then you'd select the metadata tag fields that you'd want to use. So maybe in this case you'd want to copy the "album" tag to the "name" tag, or the "artist" tag to the "name" tag. I'm making up these examples, because I don't actually know how your ePub files are tagged, or even which fields you are using. Just note that these changes are not reversible, so if you want to be extra cautious, make a set of copies of your tracks beforehand. And just choose one ePub book to try the AppleScript out with before you run this with several files selected.
It's also possible that there's a better AppleScript to use for the purposes that you want under the "Managing Track Info" group of AppleScripts at that site. I haven't used (or even downloaded) the AppleScript in question, although I have previously used other AppleScripts from this site before. I think you want to get the "This Tag That Tag" AppleScript from this URL at the dougscripts.com site: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=thistagthattag The AppleScript "This Tag That Tag v.3.2 can be found as a heading level 2. Navigate with VO-Down arrow to read the description and then to read the group of two download links for downloading the script and the read me pdf file. There's also a heading level 3 description of "how to download & install" that explains that the download file will be a .zip that opens as a .dmg file. (Navigate with VO-Down arrow here, as well, to read the description.) It also explains that you should put the script contents of the of the .dmg file into your ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder, and that you may have to create the Scripts folder if this is your first AppleScript under iTunes. Just use standard Finder navigation (e.g. use Command-Shift-G to "go to folder", and then type or paste in the path: ~/LIbrary/iTunes/ -- or tilde slash Library slash iTunes for the directory, then create the Scripts folder, and navigate to it. You can copy and paste the AppleScript to this location. You can also save the Read me file somewhere convenient. There may be other scripts you can use, but this seemed to be one suited to your requirements. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 19 Apr 2013, at 05:32, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi. > > I have some epub files which has some rather strange file names, can I change > them based on the metadata of the files. > > It would be great if there is a way to convert multiple files to correct file > names based on e.g. the title field or maybe also the author field of the > metadata, does anyone know how I can do that. I have tried playing a little > with ITunes, but I can not get ITunes to do what I want. > > Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
