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This may not seem all that useful, but greatly improves locatability and file system indexing, yielding to faster results during a search of your hard drive. It also creates a more visually appealing structure to your music and allows you to store all your music files in one big folder without worrying about organising it through a buch of sub folders.
I was sitting around with a little itch that I simply had to scratch. I had to create a simple GUI for this utility. God knows console applications can be speedy but look worse than a 500 pounder without his underpants.
As usual, the GUI is in PyQt4. So in order to run this application, you'll need to have this toolkit installed along with Python 2.6 or higher. This application should work on both Windows and Linux without much difficulty provided all the dependancies are met.
Here's a screenshot of what the application looks like:
You can go to my projects page to download the source code for this application (look for "appellation"). The application scans through an entire directory recursively, searching for music files and trying to extract the artist and song names from the ID3 tag present in the file. If the ID3 tag present is not the latest version, it may not be read properly. Backward compatibility with older versions of the tag are not supported. Perhaps that is something I can toss out in the next version of this application.
The UI is fairly simple. Select the directory to search for music files using the Browse button. Click 'Start Renaming Music Files' to start the search and renaming process. At any time if you feel like stopping the search, click the small button marked 'X' near the progress bar, both of which come alive when the search is commenced. The summary of operations is displayed in the text browser widget and a total count of failures and files parsed is also displayed.
Good app to kick off your appetite on PyQt4. Hope you enjoy the app!
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