Remove part of a Filename & iTunes Settings, Text Removal Options

[Thorrrr]

Hello Guys
Sorry if this is a newbie type question but new to all this. I ahve read several topics but cannot find my answer.
1. I have 100's of track with eg "Faithless - God Is A DJ @ 4UsOnly.biz.mp3" i want to remove the @ 4UsOnly.biz.mp3 from the Filename how do you do this. I tried do a replace with a space but i guess there is an easier way.

2. Is there a preffered set of settings to change tags so iTunes reads them and groups them correctly?

Cheers Thorrrr

[ohrenkino]

... "Faithless - God Is A DJ @ 4UsOnly.biz.mp3" .....

2. Is there a preffered set of settings to change tags so iTunes reads them and groups them correctly?

Cheers Thorrrr

itunes will not really look at the filenames but use the internal tags. so fill them first.

try the converter "filename - tag"
Enter a mask that looks like this:
%title% - %artist% @ %dummy%

this fills the two file-internal tags for title and artist.
Then use the converter "Tag - filename"
with the mask
%title% - %artist%
(or whatever sequence you want)
This renames the files.

Concerning your second question:
iTunes is very reluctant to read tracks again once it has read them. so any update will probably not show directly. There are a number of scripts around (see an iTunes forum) to overcome this weakness.
For itunes I would fill at least the tags %albumartist%, %artist%, %title%, %track%, %album% and %albumart%

%albumartist% is used to group albums - if you haven't set this tag then you get a sampler split up for every artist in the album.

This post has been edited by ohrenkino: Mar 10 2011, 21:08