Music Actions

The MP3/AAC Music category names music files after the tags they contain: artist, album, title, track number and so on. See Renaming using MP3/MP4/AAC tags for the supported formats and the tag names.

• Rename music files using MP3/AAC tags replaces the whole name with the Preferred Pattern:, e.g. <0TrackNum> - <Artist> - <Song>. If a file lacks a tag used in the pattern, the action tries Fallback Pattern 1: to Fallback Pattern 4: in turn, so that a file without a track number still gets a sensible name
• Add MP3/AAC tags to beginning and Add MP3/AAC tags to end keep the existing name
• Insert MP3/AAC tags in front of existing text, Insert MP3/AAC tags after existing text and Insert MP3/AAC tags at position put the tags inside the name

Fix missing or wrong tags in the Music app before renaming; the renamer reads tags but does not change them.

Example

Ripped tracks named Track01.m4a, Track02.m4a, … should carry the track number, the artist and the title.

1. Choose Rename music files using MP3/AAC tags
2. Enter <0TrackNum> - <Artist> - <Song> in Preferred Pattern:
3. Enter <Artist> - <Song> in Fallback Pattern 1: and <Song> in Fallback Pattern 2:

A fully tagged file becomes 01 - Miles Davis - So What.m4a. A file without a track number is named Miles Davis - So What.m4a by the first fallback, and a file with only a title becomes So What.m4a. Files with none of these tags are shown in gray and keep their names.