Media renamer.. screw iTunes

[fvckiTunes]

I was one of the dumb guys who used that piece of crap iTunes when it had the 'organize library' check box on by default and burried deep in some obscure dialog box. Thus my entire mp3 collection was all screwed up. So now all 100 or so of my playlsts dont work and I now have an 'unknown album' folder for every artist and a huge unknown artist/unknown album directory. So it's winamp for my pc and mp3 dock for my mac.

What would be really nice would be if winamp had a thingie that could rename your library based on some identifiers ala cdex in which %1 is artist name, %2 is song name, %3 is album etc. So I could click on rename files and then enter in
%1\%1 - %2.mp3
and I would get
D:\mp3s\Devo\Devo - Whip It.mp3
or if I wanted
%1\%3\%2.mp3
and I would get
D:\mp3s\Devo\Freedom Of Choice\Whip It.mp3

When it comes to an unknown artist or album or anything else that was used to rename the file, it would stop and ask me what I would like to do.
So %1\%1 - %2.mp3 but %1 is unknown.. so it would stop and ask me "who or what is %1 for this track?" and I would enter Devo!

This would be basically what those evil sob's (die die die!)at apple did except for the "we'll let you name it whatever you want, and stop if we come across an unknown" part.

Another nice but rather impossible thing would be a feature that takes a broken playlist, finds the file that fits the artist name/song name (via id2 or id3 tags) in a specified directory and fixes the playlist so that it points to the correct file... (gd iTunes)

And if anyone knows of a utility that does either of these things already, PLEASE PLEASE let me know

[doctorblah]

check out the musicbrainz project over at http://www.musicbrainz.org .. While not perfect, it at least can rename and retag like you want...and if somethin is wrong you can also fix it yourself w/o needing to wait more than a few days for the changes to take effect

[johnmc1983]

It'd be great if the media library could auto-copy and rename music from tags like iTunes. God, not JUST like iTunes, mind you, maybe with some OPTIONS?

Anyway, with over 3000 artists, its a pain to copy music to the right folders myself, although my tags are ALWAYS correct before I do so. Is there a plugin that will do this for me?

Love the media library, btw

[fvckiTunes]

doctorblah, that thing works great!.. now if winamp would just incorporate that into winamp 6 (or 7 or whatever)! The naming bit works wonderfully, I was able to completely rename all my files to the way they were previous to the iTunes screw up with only a few files out of place (thank god I'm anal about getting id3 tags right).

[Spazz333]

Yes, I would just love an autorename/move thing like MEXP has. I use medamonkey for that right now. Actually, for whoever needs to rearrange his shit go download it now. It'll do exactly what you want. I usually tell it to throw new songs in \artist\filename.mp3 and it does it perfectly

[Spazz333]

Jesus Christ on a Pogostick Musicbrainz kicks ass. I'm a new convert.