The best free app I've found for this is MusicBrainz [www.musicbrainz.com].
This has a huge database of obsessively correct details of albums which can be formatted in anyway you choose. It can automatically recognise which song an MP3 is! This is a similar script I wrote to renumber files in sequential order. It assumes that everything before the first underscore can be replaced. from path import path import re def renumberfiles(filesdir, startnum=1): d = path(filesdir) print d x = startnum for f in d.files(): fname = f.name.split('_', 1) fname = str(x).zfill(2) + "_" + fname[-1] fname = re.sub(r" ",r"_",fname) fname = re.sub(r"__",r"_",fname) x = x + 1 print f.name, "==>", f.rename(f.parent + "\\" + fname) print fname As you can see, I use the path module rather than os.path. it's a much more intuitive way of handling files. http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/ Ed On 01/11/05, Dave Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Micah Elliott wrote: > > > On Oct 31, Micah Elliott wrote: > >> Now I need to go beautify my collection. :-) > > > > While a fun exercise, there are probably already dozens (or > > thousands?) of utilities in existence that do this and much more. > > Seconded. I initially considered writing a script to rename a huge pile of > MP3 files, but halfway through, I thought, "there's *got* to be a better > way". I found this app: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm > > Bought it the next day. Holy crap, what a gigantic timesaver. It looks up > albums based on track lengths, downloads titles from freedb and Amazon, > does ID3 tagging, renaming, moves files into separate directories... I > busted through about 20 gigs of MP3s in three days. I kid you not. > > If this is just a fun toy Python project, don't let me discourage you, but > if you have more than a handful of albums to rename, trust me. This > problem has been solved. > > Here's a list of apps, including Tag&Rename, that can query freedb: > http://www.freedb.org/freedb_aware_apps.php > > -- > .:[ dave benjamin: ramen/[sp00] ]:. > \\ "who will clean out my Inbox after I'm dead[?]" - charles petzold > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list