Tired of renaming mp3's? I am...

[BurnTard]

Hi guys. It's been ages since I tried making anything halfway useful in python, and back when I did, I was almost never successful...

Anyways, the thing is: I'm finally finished moving my mp3's from a great heap in a folder called "miscellany", and I'm dead tired of organizing stuff that should have been organized ages ago, and have already been organized on my laptop...
What is the matter at the moment is that most mp3's, ripped from cd's or acquired by other means, come with a free but annoying band-name at the beginning. So what did I do? I undusted python of course, and found myself sorely incompetent... This is roughly what I want... I take it you get the picture?

 
 
for n in range(1000)
 
 
    bandname=raw_input("Band Name? ")
    folderpath=raw_input("The exact path to the folder in which the mp3's are? ")
    l1=[]
    l1.append(filenames in folderpath)
 
    for item in l1:
        if item contains bandname:
            item=item-bandname
 
 
    for item in l1:
        assign item to corresponding file or summat like that
 
 
    questionthingie=raw_input("Wanna start again? ")
    if questionthingie=="Yeah":
        print "Okay, here we go"
    else:
        break
 
 

Anyone have any suggestions as to where I should go from here?
I would greatly appreciate it ^^

Burnie

[ilikepython]

Hi guys. It's been ages since I tried making anything halfway useful in python, and back when I did, I was almost never successful...

Anyways, the thing is: I'm finally finished moving my mp3's from a great heap in a folder called "miscellany", and I'm dead tired of organizing stuff that should have been organized ages ago, and have already been organized on my laptop...
What is the matter at the moment is that most mp3's, ripped from cd's or acquired by other means, come with a free but annoying band-name at the beginning. So what did I do? I undusted python of course, and found myself sorely incompetent... This is roughly what I want... I take it you get the picture?

 
 
for n in range(1000)
 
 
    bandname=raw_input("Band Name? ")
 
    l1=[]
    l1.append(filenames in folderpath)
 
    for item in l1:
        if item contains bandname:
            item=item-bandname
 
 
    for item in l1:
        assign item to corresponding file or summat like that
 
 
    questionthingie=raw_input("Wanna start again? ")
    if questionthingie=="Yeah":
        print "Okay, here we go"
    else:
        break
 
 

Anyone have any suggestions as to where I should go from here?
I would greatly appreciate it ^^

Burnie

I'm not really sure what you want to do. Do you want to rename all files with a band name without the bandname?:

import os, os.path
while 1:
    bandname =  raw_input("Bandname: ")
    if not bandname: break
    folderpath = raw_input("The exact path in which the MP3's are located: ")
 
    filenames = [name for name in os.listdir(folderpath) if os.path.splitext(name)[1] == ".mp3"]
 
    for name in filenames:
        if bandname in name:
            newname = os.path.join(folderpath, name.replace(bandname, ""))
            os.rename(os.path.join(folderpath, name), newname)
 
 

Is that what you need?

[BurnTard]

I'm not really sure what you want to do. Do you want to rename all files with a band name without the bandname?:

import os, os.path
while 1:
    bandname =  raw_input("Bandname: ")
    if not bandname: break
    folderpath = raw_input("The exact path in which the MP3's are located: ")
 
    filenames = [name for name in os.listdir(folderpath) if os.path.splitext(name)[1] == ".mp3"]
 
    for name in filenames:
        if bandname in name:
            newname = os.path.join(folderpath, name.replace(bandname, ""))
            os.rename(os.path.join(folderpath, name), newname)
 
 

Is that what you need?

I think this is what I need, but I don't quite understand it. Could you explain it line by line? What I need is to make it rename the files so that if the bandname is in the filename, it removes the bandname from the filename.

[ilikepython]

I think this is what I need, but I don't quite understand it. Could you explain it line by line? What I need is to make it rename the files so that if the bandname is in the filename, it removes the bandname from the filename.

Of first you import the os and os.path modules. They help with renaming the files and searching the directory.

import os, os.path
 

Then you have the main loop. Here you ask the user for the band name and the folderpath. If the user doesn't give a bandname, the loop exits

while 1:
    bandname =  raw_input("Bandname: ")
    if not bandname: break
    folderpath = raw_input("The exact path in which the MP3's are located: ")
 

Next, you get all the filenames from the directory:

   filenames = [name for name in os.listdir(folderpath) if os.path.splitext(name)[1] == ".mp3"]
 

That line could be translated into this:

filenames = []
for name in os.listdir(folderpath):    # listdir return a list of files in the directory
    if os.path.splitext(name)[1] == ".mp3":   # only files with extension ".mp3"
        filenames.append(name)   # add to list
 

Now, all that's left is to rename the files. You check if bandname is in the filename for every file in filenames and if it is you remove it:

    for name in filenames:   # iterate over files
        if bandname in name: # check if the bandname is in the filename
            newname = os.path.join(folderpath, name.replace(bandname, ""))  # os.path.join joins 2 directories; join the path and the name; # replace the bandname with an empty string
            os.rename(os.path.join(folderpath, name), newname) # rename using the os module
 

Does that make sense?

[BurnTard]

Does that make sense?

That makes, if not perfect, a lot of sense! Thank you a lot, this was a great help! You guys just keep on impressing me =P

Again thanks!

[BurnTard]

Now the program seems to be running along smoothly, though there is one small problem. I'm from Norway, and when I first started using this computer, I did a very stupid thing... I called myself by my real name, which unfortunately contains an norwegian letter, "ø". Is there any way to make python understand this letter?

At the moment, it can't change a single name, because it runs into this cursed letter before it even gets that far... For now, all the program does is inform me that it cant find the folder: "c:\documents and settings\Bj\xf8rn Magne\min musikk\musikk\", which really us no wonder, because my name isn't Bj\xf8rn Magne, no matter how much I want it to be...

Anyone help? This problem is starting to annoy me...