Okay so here is what I'm trying to do I'm using mp3tag to work with some messed up mp4 file names. I am currently working on my kodi movies and there are a lot of trailers called Trailers that are located inside a folder called Featurettes on the external hard drive and here is the issue I'm having: I need to rename file after the main movie example Batman Begins (2005) would have a trailer called Batman Begins (2005)-trailer and I need to move the file from Featurettes to the main folder called Batman Begins (2005) so that the main movie file and the trailer are both in the main folder and then I would only have a second folder called .actors and then the images other then that all would be done.
Now here is the issue all the trailer videos are called Trailers.mp4 so if I move them all at once I wont know what goes where. So I'm trying to rename them all at once with the help of mp3tag I have a folder called "Need to Fix" on the external hard drive with multiple folders each movie is inside its own folder so it looks like the batman begins example so far there are (40) folders inside the Need to Fix folder. So what I'm looking at when I open the main Need to Fix folder inside the mp3tag is mp4 main movie files and then the trailer files. Now the trailer files are inside a folder called Featurettes but it also showns the path as G:\Need to Fix\Pet Sematary II (1992)\Featurettes now I only need to part that says Pet Sematary II (1992). But I would like to grab the stuff between the fix\ and \Featurettes how would I go by doing this to change file names in bulk.
Even though you have written a long text, could you show us:
- a sample path for a source file
- the desired target path (possibly the complete path)
- the fields that contain data that could be used to create the new path
The main external hard drive is at G: so it looks like this:
Need to Fix > G:\Need To Fix
movie folders:
G:\Need To Fix\Men in Black (1997)\Featurettes
G:\Need To Fix\Meg 2 The Trench (2023)\Featurettes
G:\Need To Fix\Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)\Featurettes
The files are inside Featurettes and each Featurettes only has 1 file and its a mp4 called Trailers.mp4 and I would like to rename each one from Trailer.mp4 to the main movie name which would be Men in Black (1997), Meg 2 The Trench (2023) and so on based on the path. And there all named correctly for the folders. There are currently 40 movie folder inside the Need to Fix folder.
As mp4 files could get tags, you could first import data from the path with Convert>Filename-Tag with
Format string: %title%\featurettes\%dummy%
which should fill the field TITLE with "Men in Black (1997)" for the first file.
The function has a preview.
After you have filled the field TITLE use Convert>Tag-Filename
Format string: %title%
There is also a preview.
This is exactly what I needed thank you for all the help I have been trying to do this with bat files since this morning but I could not find a way to do it for the life of me. And I do know that mp3tag works with renaming files but I didn't know how to grab the info. So I will keep a note of the on my desktop so that I can keep it in mind for later. Thank you again.