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enzo1982 / freac

The fre:ac audio converter project
https://www.freac.org/
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Provide a non-encode file output option #443

Open Xorgeo opened 1 year ago

Xorgeo commented 1 year ago

A times I want to simply rename a set of audio files using the tag information contained in the file.

However, sometimes it is not desirable to encode the file data, but only rename the files according to the output file pattern.

Xorgeo commented 1 year ago

The puddletag GNOME application provides this function.

Lee-Carre commented 1 year ago

You might want to try Picard, then, which has sophisticated rename/reorganise features.

Else, being on POSIX, there are surely CLI tools to parse the tagged metadata, which could then be used (in a shell script) to rename the file.

Ideally, when actually generating the files would be the time to set the name based on metadata. Perhaps you could elaborate on your workflow? Why are you ending up with misnamed files, in the first place?

The title was a bit misleading; I thought you would be asking about outputting uncompressed (all audio is encoded; they're different concepts) files, which is entirely different to simply renaming/reorganising existing files.