Converting upper case file names to lower case.

[djsound]

I have about 50 *.mp3's on my hard drive that have the file names in all upper case. When looking at them in itunes it drives me nuts....Is there a way to convert the uppercase file name to lowercase? I have googled but can't find anything. I do not want to do it manually, that would take a long time =( thanks, I'm crossing my fingers..

 

[belvdr]

Go to Terminal:

cd /path/to/files

for FILE in `ls -A1 *.MP3`; do FILENAME=`echo ${FILE} | sed 's/ /\\ /g'`; echo mv ${FILENAME} `echo ${FILENAME} | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`; done

That will output the commands to rename the files. If it looks correct, simply change "echo mv" to "mv".

Note this is untested and off the top of my head.

 

[angelwatt]

If you want a GUI approach, get Name Mangler.

 

[belvdr]

If you want a GUI approach, get Name Mangler.

Embrace the terminal, I say!

 

[djsound]

I got so happy because Name Mangler looks perfect.....until I realized it doesnt work with os/x 10.4.1 =( which I have.........and there is no way I'd attempt Terminal hehe.......grrrrrrrrrrr

 

[mscriv]

I use the Automater Rename Finder Items command all the time to make batch changes like this. There is a command you can use called Change Case that will do exactly what you are trying to do. Just to be safe you can set up Automater to make a backup copy of the files prior to making the change in case something goes wrong. If you would prefer you can just make your own back up copy of the files.

 

[djsound]

very cool . I'll give that a go. thanks =)

 

[Jhanson09]

I got so happy because Name Mangler looks perfect.....until I realized it doesnt work with os/x 10.4.1 =( which I have.........and there is no way I'd attempt Terminal hehe.......grrrrrrrrrrr

http://www.manytricks.com/namemangler/ click in the box that says for older systems try file list.

 

[djsound]

doh! thanks

 

[djsound]

That actually worked great but I realized that not only was the filename in uppercase but the ID3 tags were too.......so in itunes (which was bothering me) the song names and info are still in uppercase.....and I am guessing there is no possible way to change all of the ID3 tags to lowercase......I think im s**t out of luck =/

 

[angelwatt]

You should take a look at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes. There's one script for changing to sentence case, which is close to what you want. The scripts are somewhat old so no guarantee they work with the current iTunes, but worth a shot.

 

[BriChi]

Any way to get the artists to be all caps also, I used automator to change the tracks titles to all caps in the ID3 tag but nothing lets me change the artist also. I can change the filename with no issue but I really want to change the mp3 tag to be all caps. Thx guys for any info you have

 

[BerGaur]

Go to Terminal:

cd /path/to/files

for FILE in `ls -A1 *.MP3`; do FILENAME=`echo ${FILE} | sed 's/ /\\ /g'`; echo mv ${FILENAME} `echo ${FILENAME} | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`; done

That will output the commands to rename the files. If it looks correct, simply change "echo mv" to "mv".

Note this is untested and off the top of my head.

What if the filenames have spaces?