# Scripting Appreciation
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-appreciation/64062
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [March 13, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-appreciation/64062 "2024-03-13T16:42:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@trudge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trudge)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-appreciation/64062/1 "2024-03-13T16:42:31Z")
Kudus and many thanks for this excellent ID3 editor. I run a Mac M1 with several thousand music files obtained variously. A JavaScript music player I found needed the files named sequentially as a number (1.mp3,2.mp3,3.mp3,...). But I had the originals on a different external drive named correctly.
Due to a foolish ID10T error I had bricked the original external drive with all original music files. DUH. Now I wanted to rename my existing .mp3 files correctly. I am able to do some renaming with exiftool and bash if the files contain metadata, however, many do not.
If I create a text file of correct filenames (playlist) I am able to use the proper scripting to import those names into filenames. Wow. What a handy function. This program will save me hours of searching and head banging.
As a programmer I very much appreciate your thought and design abilities in this tool.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-appreciation/64062/2 "2024-03-13T19:41:57Z")
Thank you for the kind words! Happy you like Mp3tag 🙂
> [@trudge](#):
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> I am able to do some renaming with exiftool and bash if the files contain metadata, however, many do not.
You can also use Mp3tag here, see **Convert → Tag - Filename** and [Rename Files based on Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-files-and-import-tags-from-files/51720#rename-files-based-on-tags-2) for more.
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And glad you have the 1.mp3, 2.mp3, 3.mp3, ... files as a kind of backup!