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name cleanup after mass conversion...

I recently ripped a bunch of my cd's with EAC to their various folders and left the wavs to encode later.  I made the assumption it would be easy to encode them en masse with lame, but I had trouble finding a way to do this.  Someone suggested I use foobar.  Used the windows search function to copy them into the playlist and then encoded overnight.  The problem I have now is that they all have the numbered prefix from the playlist amended to them as so:
filename sample:    003 Creatures_04.MP3
I am at a loss for using the editor to alter the names.... any tips would be apprecitated!!
Thanks

name cleanup after mass conversion...

Reply #1 –
As I got you you want to remove the leading numbers in your filenames, for instance rename '003 Creatures_04.MP3' to 'Creatures_04.MP3' (btw I still don't like foobar's uppercase-extensions, I always make them lowercase afterwards).

You can use Rname-it for that (download from here for example).

Select all your files, use the 'Advance Renaming Options' > Apply to Prefix only > Replace > First = 0  , Last = 3  (0=first position of filename, 3 = 4th position (the whitespace after 003 in the example above) > Start process with 'Rname-it'-button.

I guess a lot of other renaming-tools can do the same (for instance The Rename)

You should change your filename-sheme at diskwriter-settings to %_filename% (for instance) for future conversions without leading numbers.

name cleanup after mass conversion...

Reply #2 –
Or simply use foobar's own file renamer with this output filename format:

$right(%_filename%,$sub($len(%_filename%),4))

Remember to update the preview window and see if it works as you want.

name cleanup after mass conversion...

Reply #3 –
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As I got you you want to remove the leading numbers in your filenames, for instance rename '003 Creatures_04.MP3' to 'Creatures_04.MP3' (btw I still don't like foobar's uppercase-extensions, I always make them lowercase afterwards).

If you click on the `edit' button at `Output Presets'
You get a chance to set the extension.  Use lowercase there.