MP3Fix

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Description

In a nutshell, MP3Fix is a program that renames the MP3 files in a chosen directory to fit what I consider to be the standard file naming conventions.

As you can see from the second screenshot, it's not perfect at guessing how to rename files (AFI is renamed to Afi), and therefore it skips most files that appear to have special cases. The program generally takes on the philosophy that it's better to leave a file alone than accidently rename it incorrectly, hence files with more than one hyphen ('-') are skipped because a file name such as "American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Week" would be changed to "American Hi - Fi - Flavor of the Week". Otherwise, songs are generally renamed to fit traditional "Artist - Song Name" formats with correct capitalization and spacing.

MP3Fix was written in Java 1.4 using Swing components. The GUI is definitely the hardest part to code and is probably about 10 times harder than writing the code to rename the files. Someday I want to come back to this and have it auto-edit ID3 tags as well as do a better job renaming the files.

Download

Get MP3Fix version 1.1. (5 KB)

Requires the Java 1.4 runtime environment or greater.

How to use MP3Fix

1. Select a directory with MP3 Files that you wish to have renamed.
2. Click "Process" to process the files.
   • If "Preview Mode" is enabled (Defaulted to Enabled), files will not be renamed, and the program will simply list changes that would be made.
   • If "Preview Mode" is not enabled, files will actually be renamed.
   • If "Use Articles" is enabled, artists (but not songs) beginning with an article ("a", "an", or "the") will be renamed with the article at the end of the artist. Thus, a file named "The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night" will be renamed to "Beatles, The - A Hard Day's Night".
   • An "Invalid MP3 Filename" means that the current file is not an MP3 file.
   • An "Irregular MP3 Filename" means that the current file name appears to have a special case, so MP3Fix does not attempt to rename the file.

Note: If you use a playlist, you will have to re-add renamed files to the playlist manually.

Screenshot

Change Log

MP3Fix 1.1 (2005-01-04)

• Introduced an executable jar file. Java Web Start is no longer required to run MP3Fix.

MP3Fix 1.0 (2004-05-16)

• MP3Fix released.

Author Info

Written by Jeff Chien

Jeff85 (at) gmail.com

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