The Rename File dialog
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The Rename File dialog


Screenshot of the Rename File dialog.

The File Renamer Configuration dialog box is used to configure the Rename File action, which renames a song's based on the information contained within its metadata tags. First the tags are altered according to the different tokens you can alter, and then the tokens are used to generate the filename according to the Filename scheme.

The most important part of the dialog is the Filename scheme section. You can type a file name scheme here which JuK will use to rename the files. The way it works is that some characters are special.

%t

This will be replaced with the Title token upon evaluation.

%a

This will be replaced with the Artist token upon evaluation.

%A

This will be replaced with the Album token upon evaluation.

%T

This will be replaced with the Track token upon evaluation.

%c

This will be replaced with the Comment token upon evaluation.

Every token can contain %s, which is replaced with the actual tag, and any text you want, including slashes (/). If a token has a slash, then that will indicate a folder separator. Of course, it would be possible to simply type folder separators in the Filename scheme line.

Using the tokens, however, allows us to completely ignore tags that are empty. If you check the Need value check box, then the token will be ignored if the corresponding tag is empty. For example, you could use this to separate files with comments from those without by placing something such as has-comment/%s in the Comment token editor.

You can test your filename scheme by using the Current filename editor at the bottom of the dialog. Type in a filename of a music file, and the New filename area will display would JuK would rename the file as given the current settings.

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