Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I was wondering if any tech savvy members on the board could help me out. To cut a long story short, I'm trying to clear and organise both my MPC 1000 and 2500 hard disk drives and compact flash cards, into a more simpler and organised fashion. I've got loads of drums chopped from breaks that I want to rename, but to name them one by one would take forever. Has anyone had any previous experience using a batch renaming utility program and could recommend a good free program that compatible with windows 8? Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Symatic Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 guys have to do this at my work all the time - aparrently this is good: http://1-4a-rename.software.informer.com/1.5/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Thanks Symatic, will download it and give it a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-L Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Screenshots.php I use this one.It adds an option to your right click menus in WIndows which I like too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-L Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Also , the DAW I use reaper is quite good for this too. if you have a whole load of files in a project you can export them to a new folder and add wild cards - such as the track name. When I'm editing samples, I have a blank project set up with track names Kick, Snare etc. You can then add these as a suffix/prefix to the files as your exporting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-L Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 and plus with Reaper if your original file is not the correct sample rate, bit rate or format you can change that on export. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Thanks for the link for the program, will download both and see which one I prefer Cheers for the tips for reaper as well Mike-L, will try them out too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-L Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Also , the Reaper download is fully operational - you pay on a conscience basis if you still use it after the trial expires. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Also , the Reaper download is fully operational - you pay on a conscience basis if you still use it after the trial expires. Cheers Mike-L, forgot how good Reaper was I've just updated from Verson 3.99 . I only stopped using DAW's because I spend more time looking and messing about with VST plugins then making beats Also Mike-L can I pick your brains about the Bulk Rename Utility. For example if I go into my kick drum folder that I've created how do I get the program to descend with numbers? I.e Kick 0001Kick 0002Kick 0003and so fourth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-L Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Sorry man - totally forgot about this. In the utility there's a box called 'Numbering'. Set the mode to Suffix. Set the start to 1. To add three leading zeros like in your example, set pad to 4. If the samples are called something other than Kick already , select the name box , change that to 'fixed' and type 'Kick ' into the empty box underneath (make sure to add a space after 'Kick' if you want it separated from the numbers). When everything is set up how you want it , press the big rename button. Hey presto Kick 0001, Kick 0002 etc. it sounds complicated but you get the feel for it pretty quick. Having said that, I'm using Reaper for most of sample renaming now, because I can incorporate it into the sample editing process more seamlessly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Thanks for the help Mike-L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankens23 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 (edited) You can batch truncate/rename file names through krojamSoft: BatchRenameFiles tool program. :d Edited April 29, 2017 by jankens23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexinoodle Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Bulk rename ris on every windows machine i own, brilliant little app Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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