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foo_filename_editor ~ Advanced File Renamer

Posted by tom2tec on

Advanced file renamer component for foobar2000 media player. This plugin helps you rename your physical audio files on your hard drive based on their metadata tags, while ensuring a seamless, smart, and fully automated workflow.

Key Features:

  • Smart Track Number Padding: Automatically scans all selected tracks. If the album contains 100 or more tracks, it pads numbers to 3 digits (001, 002), otherwise it defaults to 2 digits (01, 02) dynamically.
  • Intelligent Compilation (Various Artists) Detection: Automatically checks %album artist% and %artist% tags. If it detects a compilation, it seamlessly applies your custom VA formatting template.
  • Advanced Case Conversion: Supports Title Case, Smart Title Case (keeps short words like a, an, the, and, with lowercase), Sentence case, ALL CAPS, and lowercase.
  • Roman Numerals Preservation: Intelligently detects standalone Roman numerals (e.g., Part iii) and forces them to uppercase (Part III) across all case conversion modes (except lowercase). Includes protection against false positives (words like MIX, DIV).
  • Extended Unicode & Ligature Support: Works perfectly with Windows native APIs, preserving and processing complex characters like æ, œ, ß, and language-specific diacritics.
  • Safe Formatting Menu: Quick insertion menu for popular tags and safely escaped syntax characters like '(', ')', '[', ']', and single/double quotes (', '').
  • Seamless Playlist Synchronization & Reload: Automatically replaces dead file links in all open playlists with the newly renamed paths. Instantly reloads file tags and durations in the background—no broken links, no manual reloading required!
  • Robust Error Handling: If a file cannot be renamed (e.g., if it is locked or currently playing), the plugin bypasses it without crashing and provides a detailed summary report of successful and failed files.
  • Persistent Settings: Remembers your custom single/VA templates, history list, checkboxes status, and even your preferred window column widths between sessions.

M3U/M3U8 Playlist Generation (v1.1)

The plugin now includes built-in support for generating playlist files automatically during the renaming process:

  • Save M3U Checkbox: Automatically creates a playlist file in the top-level directory of your processed files.
  • Custom Naming Templates: Use standard foobar2000 title formatting syntax (like %album% or %artist% - %album%) to dynamically name your playlist file.
  • EXTINF Metadata: Optional toggle to write standard #EXTM3U and #EXTINF headers containing track durations and formatted titles (%artist% - %title%).
  • Smart Conflict Resolution & Overwrite Toggle: Prevents accidental loss of data. If overwrite is disabled, the plugin safely creates incremented filenames like Playlist (1).m3u.
  • UTF-8 Compatibility: Playlists are written with a proper UTF-8 BOM, ensuring seamless support for non-ASCII characters, symbols, and ligatures.
foo_filename_editor configuration panel

github.com/VadimLevo/foo_filename_editor

foobar2000 ~ foo_filename_editor

Posted by tom2tec on

Advanced file renamer component for foobar2000 media player. This plugin helps you rename your physical audio files on your hard drive based on their metadata tags, while ensuring a seamless, smart, and fully automated workflow.

Key Features:

  • Smart Track Number Padding: Automatically scans all selected tracks. If the album contains 100 or more tracks, it pads numbers to 3 digits (001, 002), otherwise it defaults to 2 digits (01, 02) dynamically.
  • Intelligent Compilation (Various Artists) Detection: Automatically checks %album artist% and %artist% tags. If it detects a compilation, it seamlessly applies your custom VA formatting template.
  • Advanced Case Conversion: Supports Title Case, Smart Title Case (keeps short words like a, an, the, and, with lowercase), Sentence case, ALL CAPS, and lowercase.
  • Roman Numerals Preservation: Intelligently detects standalone Roman numerals (e.g., Part iii) and forces them to uppercase (Part III) across all case conversion modes (except lowercase). Includes protection against false positives (words like MIX, DIV).
  • Extended Unicode & Ligature Support: Works perfectly with Windows native APIs, preserving and processing complex characters like æ, œ, ß, and language-specific diacritics.
  • Safe Formatting Menu: Quick insertion menu for popular tags and safely escaped syntax characters like '(', ')', '[', ']', and single/double quotes (', '').
  • Seamless Playlist Synchronization & Reload: Automatically replaces dead file links in all open playlists with the newly renamed paths. Instantly reloads file tags and durations in the background—no broken links, no manual reloading required!
  • Robust Error Handling: If a file cannot be renamed (e.g., if it is locked or currently playing), the plugin bypasses it without crashing and provides a detailed summary report of successful and failed files.
  • Persistent Settings: Remembers your custom single/VA templates, history list, checkboxes status, and even your preferred window column widths between sessions.

🎵 M3U/M3U8 Playlist Generation (v1.1)

The plugin now includes built-in support for generating playlist files automatically during the renaming process:

  • Save M3U Checkbox: Automatically creates a playlist file in the top-level directory of your processed files.
  • Custom Naming Templates: Use standard foobar2000 title formatting syntax (like %album% or %artist% - %album%) to dynamically name your playlist file.
  • EXTINF Metadata: Optional toggle to write standard #EXTM3U and #EXTINF headers containing track durations and formatted titles (%artist% - %title%).
  • Smart Conflict Resolution & Overwrite Toggle: Prevents accidental loss of data. If overwrite is disabled, the plugin safely creates incremented filenames like Playlist (1).m3u.
  • UTF-8 Compatibility: Playlists are written with a proper UTF-8 BOM, ensuring seamless support for non-ASCII characters, symbols, and ligatures.

github.com/VadimLevo/foo_filename_editor

AudiQ ~ Format mp3 File Names & Tags

Posted by tom2tec on

All the mp3 files of the music albums that you can download have different name formats or the information tags are empty. AudiQ is a very easy to use application that allows you to format the mp3 file names the way you decide. This application also fills the ID3 tags with the information of each song from the filename. Normalize your audio library.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/audiq/

Tagscanner ~ Tag Editor & Utility

Posted by tom2tec on

TagScanner is a powerful tool for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of most modern audio formats, supports ID3v1/v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WMA and MP4(iTunes) tags. You can rename files according to information from the tags, import tag information from filenames or other sources, perform any text replacement and transformations in tags and filenames. Also you may get album info and download covers via online databases like freedb, Discogs or MusicBrainz. You can create playlists in one click and export your collection to HTML, Excel or any user-defined format. Program has easy-to-use multilingual interface and built-in audio player.
Features:

  • Rename files based on the tag and file information
  • Powerful multiple files tag editor
  • Import album information and covers from online databases like Discogs or MusicBrainz
  • Generate tag information from file/foldernames
  • Tag fields formatting and rearrangement
  • Words replacement and case conversion from tags and filenames
  • Supports MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, MPEG-4, Opus, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavPack, TrueAudio, WAV, AIFF, Direct Stream Digital files
  • Supports ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata
  • Supports for embedded lyrics and cover art
  • Resize cover art for portable devices on the fly
  • TAGs versions conversions
  • Quick playlists creation
  • Export information to HTML, XML CSV or any user-defined format
  • Full support for Unicode
  • Multi-language interface
  • Built-in audio player
tagscanner

www.xdlab.ru

File Order Randomizer ~ For Cheap Music Players

Posted by tom2tec on

If, like me, you have a car radio or a clock radio which cannot play tracks in random order from your usb stick itself, this application might be useful for you.

It generates random numbers and puts them in front of every file in a specified folder. So all you’ve got to do when you want a new play order for your music tracks is run this application.

FOR

sourceforge.net/projects/filerandomizer
github.com/depuits/RandomFileOrder – Updated Fork

AudioShell ~ ID3 Tag Editor & Windows Shell Extension

Posted by tom2tec on

AudioShell adds an ID3 tag editor and files rename tools into Windows system music files pop-up menu. AudioShell property shell handler adds detailed music tags information into Windows Explorer columns and Preview pane, thumbnail handler adds thumbnails with album art into Explorer. Full Unicode and 64 bit support.

www.softpointer.com/AudioShell