Basically, I have an album of music and I want to remove the authors name from all of the mp3 files instead of having to manually do it myself. Is there a function in Windows 7 Ultimate that can do this for me?
You could also try using Powershell, a very powerful Windows command line tool. You’d run this command:
Full Command:
get-childitem *.mp3 | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("Radiohead -", "") }
Analyzing it:
get-childitem .mp3
This just lists all files that have the words .mp3 in them. It is then passed to the next command with the | operator.
foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace(“Radiohead -“, “”) }
This simply replaces all instances of Radiohead – with nothing, denoted by “” effectively wiping the word from all the files in the directory.
You could also modify get-childitem *.mp3 to get-childitem – It’d simply rename all the files in the directory, not just files that contain .mp3 (for future use)
my actual example
I want to remove “+” in my file names (like 0-0370+-+CRATER+LAKE)
Basically, I want to change from “+” to “-”
get-childitem | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("+", "-") }
first , you need to go type and search ” windows powershell
like this
cd directoryName (go to your directory that file contains)
then execute this command
get-childitem | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("+", "-") }
0-0370+-+CRATER+LAKE.jpg (before) —-> 0-0370—CRATER-LAKE.jpg (after)
