How can I rename the file name using the track name from the tag?

My new car can play MP3s from a CD so I am now moving 300+ vinyl albums and 100 CDs to MP3. I save the tracks as "01 track name.mp3" in directories named for the album. With CDs its straight forward. The player does not handle play lists or randomizing so I fill a CD full of MP3 files from various albums and they sort of get randomized as they are sorted by the track number. I can live with that. 30 CDs and I'm ready for a cross country drive.

I use Nero and foobar2000 v.9.4.2 to copy vinyl to MP3 as follows:
- make 2 wave files (side-1, side-2) @ 96kHz 16bit
- clean-up the clicks
- ID and save the individual tracks as track01 etc. as MP3 @ 48kHz 16bit CBR
- run foobar, Tagging, Get Tags From freedb
- Update Files
- open Properties, Track Titles, Edit
- open Windows Explorer to the album directory
- copy and paste the Track Title text to rename the MP3 file "01 Track Name.Mp3”

So my question is - can I avoid the manual file renaming?

Also, if any one has ideas or suggestions on how to improve the above procedures they would be graciously accepted.

BTW - I compared the Nero MP3 encoder at 48kHz to the original vinyl LP and I can not tell the difference. RazorLime seems to loose some richness in tracks like Ntjilo Ntjilo from The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba. These losses become discernable in the fullness of her voice particularly in the duet with the muted trumpet. (I know “richness” and “fullness” are not terribly technical but how do you get past the “full body of the wine” concept.)

Much digression here.

You are searching for the file renaming capabilities ("context menu - tagging and... - move, copy and rename files") of the masstagger. Masstagger is part of the fb2k installation, but IIRC has to be chosen optionally.

BTW, what are you using for declicking, whats state of the art?

When renaming your files, I supposed you could use the $rand() function to prepend some random numbers to your track titles if you really want to randomize things.

Or create a randomized playlist and rename with %list_index% in front of the track name to keep the random playlist order. %list_index% is 0-padded to the number of items in your playlist - ie if you have 2500 tracks, track 3 is written as 0003.

Squeller,

Thanks. Next time I'll try the "context menu - tagging and... - move, copy and rename files".

I am using the latest Nero 7 Premium release. For declicking I use their Wave Edit module and the Enhancement, Declicker function. The default setting seems to work for general clean-up. For the really horrendous spikes I zero in on the specific spike and use the Enhancement, Noise Reduction and select Automatic Noise Analysis. If that fails, I use the Volume Change on the spike and reduce the volume until the click becomes almost inaudible. In either case I am selecting only 1/100 of a millisecond to work on.

I like the ability to select 1 or 2 seconds of the wave and then have the selection play repeatedly as I adjust the settings of the effect chosen. Use headphones or drive everybody else in the house crazy.

Thanks. That worked. No more typing in each track name.

It took a bit to figure out how to eliminate the "." from "nn. track".