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Toricxs HTML Help: Step 8 - New File Names
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In step 8 the future file names are created and saved in memory.
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Now, as you already removed many errors using the error checks, it is time to
create the new file names. Note that your music files will NOT be changed, the new file names are just created in memory and ‘memorized’ by Toricxs ‘till step 11, where your files will be physically
accessed. But now, in step 8, nothing will be changed, so don’t hesitate to create the new names ;-).
Toricxs needs to know how the new file names should look like, therefore
first enter the desired file name format into text box (1). After that, enter the directory format below (3). Of course, the output directory should be located on the desired target drive (on your hard disk or on a
network drive), and you can create multiple sub directories, either with a fixed name or named like the TAG data of the files.
Examples:
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Here the files in the directories of your new collection would have various song-, artist- and album names and also the comment would differ, but the songs of all files were recorded in the year specified by the sub dir name. Dir format:
[drive, sub dirs]\MP3\%year%\.
If a year is not set, Toricxs uses ‘0000’ by default.
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In this example files are in sub dirs named like the artist and, one level below, like the album. This is one of the most often used directory structure among the beta-testers. Dir format:
[drive, sub dirs]\My MP3s\%artist%\%album%\.
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If an artist or album is not set, Toricxs automatically uses [unknown
artist]/[unknown album] ([unknown song] etc.).
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If you are not sure which file name- and directory format to take then
choose the default (press buttons (2) and (4)).
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It often happens that files will be existing more than once
in your final collection. This is possible as equally named files are copied from several different sub directories or as similarly named files are named equally after formatting. Of course Toricxs (like every Windows-program) cannot create several files with the same name in the same directory, so doubled files must be treated specially. You can make Toricxs do one of the two following actions if doubled files are found:
later in step 11, delete all doubled files except the largest one (the one with the largest file size). later in step 11, numerate doubled files by adding ‘(#x)’ to the file name, example: Atomic Kitten - The Tide Is High (#1).mp3,
Atomic Kitten - The Tide Is High (#2).mp3 and so on.
Choose your desired doubled file handling through marking one of the two option buttons (5).
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When you added directories in step 1 as move directories,
it may later in step 11 happen that these directories become empty as all included files where copied to their new location in the cleaned-up collection. To delete these empty source directories
enable the related check box (6) (deleting may fail under WinXP as there seems to be a bug in WinXP’s file system administration (Thanks Steve ‘Pixel’ Stevenson for the info!)).
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If you want Toricxs in step 11 to create a logfile about
the renaming process then enable the related check box (7).
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You can make Toricxs retain some or all file names
of your current collection. If you enable ‘retain all file names’ (8) then Toricxs will not create new file names out of the v1 TAG data (where the item length is limited to 30 chars) but re-use the old file name. Enable this option if you think the current file names are already perfect. If you just want to avoid that Toricxs shortens any file name (as the v1 TAG item (the new file name is created out of) is longer than 30 chars) then enable ‘retain long file names’ (9). To capitalize the retained file names check the related check box (10). The context help will give you some before-after file name examples, just click on the ‘?’ button and then on the check box (9) or (10). To avoid that Toricxs updates the v1 and v2 TAG of your files disable ‘write TAGs’ (11). With these 4 options there are the following 3 ingenious renaming modes:
- to rename and tag your files (complete renaming, recommended):
- disable ‘retain all file names’
- disable ‘retain long file names’
- format retained file names is ignored (disable)
- enable ‘write TAGs’
- to tag your files and rename only when the file name won’t get shortened (almost complete renaming):
- disable ‘retain all file names’
- enable ‘retain long file names’
- enable ‘format retained file names’
- enable ‘write TAGs’
- to move your files to new sub dirs only without altering the files itselves:
- enable ‘retain all file names’
- disable ‘retain long file names’
- disable ‘format retained file names’
- disable ‘write TAGs’
If you have questions, just mail louis@toricxs.com
When having set all rename options, create new file names and continue to step 9.
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