On 19 Jun 2006 16:48:18 GMT, Jesper <xyborx+usenet@xyborx.dk> wrote:


>On 2006-06-19, Daniel B?hmer wrote:
>> Is anybody of you able and likely to write a little shell script or
>> anything like that which would rename the tracks beginning with the
>> track number? Example:
>>
>> 09 Pink Floyd - High Hopes.mp3
>> or in general: ## Artist - Track title.mp3

>Not sure I can really help, but isn't that naming scheme going to be a
>pain when it comes to sorting? For my own collection I decided that the
>following would be a lot better:
>Artist-Album-Track-Title.extension

>With all non-alphanummeric and non-ascii characters removed or converted
>so something more filesystem friendly. Eg. spaces converted to
>underscores, and various Scandinavian characters changed to more
>internationally readable characters (?->ae, ?->oe, ?->aa, etc).

>In total, this means that even if I have to put all of the files in the
>same directory (not by Artist/Album as I do now), on a non-ID3
>compatible device, a simple alphanummeric sort by filename would still
>list them appropriately. With your scheme, you'd have tracks from one
>album mixed with tracks from other albums.

I'm not the OP, but I put each album in it's own directory and use
track numers as a track prefix so that I can be sure that they'll
be played in the correct order.