I'd like to rename all these Bob Marley songs

[julienko3]

I just got a bunch of Bob Marley songs and the all have "Bob Marley - " before the title of the song, and I'd like to get rid of the "Bob Marley -" part without getting carpel tunnel in both wrists.

How could I go about this? Automator?

Thanks.

-Oh, this is in iTunes.

 

[lego8]

I just got a bunch of Bob Marley songs and the all have "Bob Marley - " before the title of the song, and I'd like to get rid of the "Bob Marley -" part without getting carpel tunnel in both wrists.

How could I go about this? Automator?

Thanks.

-Oh, this is in iTunes.

It might be easiest if you locate the songs in Finder and edit the names there. Be sure to import them again for the changes to take effect.

 

[julienko3]

So I should go into the finder, but still edit them manually?

thanks

 

[miles01110]

Try downloading this script for Automator:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=filenamestosongnames

I haven't used it, but it renamed the tracks in iTunes to the file names in the /Music/ ... directory that the files are located in. Seems useful.

Side note: Why did they include a "Get Specified iTunes Items" and "Rename Finder Items" but no "Rename iTunes Items" ? :-(

 

[gdphishman817]

This is the applescript you want:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removenchars

On the website it shows you how to install it in itunes. Check out the other scripts on this site. I use them all to the time to batch format songs.

 

[nutman]

i use a small app called Name Mangler. i like it more than automator. i am pretty sure it is free.

 

[Ramashalanka]

If you don't want to download something you could type the following into terminal. First cd to the correct directory, then:

for i in "Bob Marley - "*; do mv "$i" "${i//Bob Marley - /}";done

 

[GGJstudios]

Name Mangler is the best I've seen for batch renaming files in Finder. For editing data in iTunes, there are lots of great scripts available online, such as Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes.