Rename Music Tags & Remove the Numbering from the Song Titles

Renaming songs helps give a more meaningful and tidied shape to the song collection. This means the users can not only classify their song collection into various categories such as Genre, Artist, Album, Year, and so on; they can also easily pick out a song of their choice, no matter how big the collection is.

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Easy File Renamer is a software made by our company, Sorcim Technologies. EFR gives 100% control to the users and follows Google Software Principles.

Organizing the songs in a meaning oriented way provides a whole lot of benefits. This is why it is a good idea to regularly perform this job, and keep the songs collection organized. 

 

Easy File Renamer

This software is built for renaming, as its name suggests. Easy File Renamer takes up very little system space; it performs the job with absolute accuracy, and it doesn’t complicate things. 

Easy File Renamer is right up there with the best apps for renaming data. Let’s just take a brief look at the options it provides, and we’re pretty sure our readers will also start to agree with us on this.

EFR provides users with the option of choosing from a total of 10 renaming rules while renaming files! These rules are: New name, Remove text, Replace text, Trim text, Suffix, Prefix, Numbering, Insert At, Lower case, and Uppercase.

The user can easily apply a single/ several rules in 1 go to come up with a meaningful, and interesting renaming pattern of the target data.

And this renaming spree isn’t just limited to the system data. EFR makes it very easy to rename all Google Drive data. The user can sign in to their Google account via the ultimate security provided by the official Google API. Next, Easy File Renamer will load all the data into its user interface. The user can then easily select the renaming rule(s) of their choice and apply them.

The next field for renaming that EFR takes care of is the MP3 music tags. Also known as metadata, these tags are used to easily identify a music file by adding up meaningful information about the music file, such as Album Name, Year, Artist, Genre, and so on. The whole process is very smart and simple at the same time. And the user can even add up the same tags for their iTunes songs as well.

Lastly, EFR also helps move and copy data from one location to another. These features prove very handy when you have to move/ copy big quantities of data from within a small window in the EFR interface.

Now that we have provided an overview of the EFR features, let’s now check out 2 renaming scenarios it can take care of very easily.

But before that, you’ll have to navigate to the Easy File Renamer website, download the setup file and install it. Now you’re all set to learn how to rename music tags and remove the numbering from a song title.

 

Rename Music Tags

Easy File Renamer edits music tags to provide a meaningful and organized shape to your MP3 files. Some tags can be applied in bulk numbers in a single go, (Album, Year), while others have to be added manually for each song, (Title), etc.

Here is the whole procedure:

1. Launch Easy File Renamer and click the Music Fixer tab.
2. Click the MP3 Files button and add all the songs you want to edit tags for. You can do this by selecting them and clicking Open. Repeat this step until you have added all the songs from multiple folders.
3. Now that the songs have been loaded in the Easy File Renamer interface, you’ll be seeing that the columns for Title, Artist, and the Album will be empty.
4. Click the Bulk Tag Editor button (located under the Move tab).
5. Here you can happily type the new value for the Artist and Album fields. Click Update once you’re done and you will see the Artist and Album columns show up the new values that will be applied once the tag fixing is performed.
6. Now to update the Title tag, you will have to click the yellow pencil icon before each song name, add the new value and click Update.
7. Finally, click the green Rename button in the bottom-right to update the tags.
8. Click Yes.

NOTE 1: You cannot bulk edit the Title tag, because this tag is unique for each song unlike the Artist and Album tags.

 

Remove the Numbering from a Song Title

The second renaming scenario we will be looking at is about removing certain characters from the name of each song. As an example, let’s assume we have songs that are named 01_first_song, 02_first_song, and so on. We want to remove the 01_, 02_, and so on from the filename. 

Easy File Renamer can pull this off within seconds, rather than you having to rename each song manually. Here is how it will happen:

1. Launch Easy File Renamer and click the Add Files button under the System Renamer tab.
2. Navigate to the folder which contains the songs and add up all the songs until 99_first_song for the moment. Please check NOTE 2 on why we limited the song selection to 99_first_song in this go.
3. In the Select Rule option dropdown menu on the left, select the Trim Text option.
4. Enter 3 in the Length textbox. This means that you want to remove 3 characters from the filename (0, 1 and _ from 01_first_song), (0, 2 and _ from 02_first_song) until 99_first_song.
5. Now select the At Start of Name option and then click the Add Rule button.
6. Look out for the Item New Name column and if all seems well, click the green Rename button.
7. Select Yes in the confirmation prompt.

NOTE 2: Please remember that this solution helps remove only 3 characters, as we’ve added 3 in the Length textbox (step # 4). Once you reach 100_first_song, you will be requiring to remove 4 characters from the song name (1, 0, 0 and _). So you will now add all songs from 100_first song uptil 999_first song, and 4 in the Length textbox (because here you want to remove 4 characters.

NOTE 3: Please remember that due to the file naming rules set by Windows, 2 files located within the same folder cannot be given the exact same name. This means that if you want to remove 01_ from 01_first_song and 02_ from 02_first_song, both the files shall be renamed to first_song which isn’t possible. So Windows will proceed to rename them as first_song, first_song(1), and so on.

 

We sincerely hope this helped. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We’re delighted to help you out (and always will be)!