For years I've been filing songs by this method:

Artist's Name - Song Title.mp3 (or mid)

I'd like to switch them to:

Song Title - Artist's Name.mp3 (or mid)

I have 10,000 mp3 files on my walkman culled from my CD/LP/Download collection so the idea of changing them one at a time is not going to happen. I don't have that kind of time.

But I more often look for song title than artist's name.

So I wonder if there is any software app that would do that for me?

Thanks,
Notes

Yes, you can batch rename with MediaMonkey. I've been using that for over 10 years to organize my mess of music. I bought the Gold license way back then too. You download and install the free version. If you want Gold you just purchase a key.

P.S. - If you go this route and want to do this, hit me up for any tips you may need. They use keys like <Artist> - <Title> - <Name>, etc. and you just arrange them how you want. You can change the file name and the tags in the file as well.

This is old school, but I use a text editor that has a macro capability that I use to create a batch file to rename files. As long as I can see a pattern, it's pretty easy to do.

Likewise, using something like MediaMonkey (I also have the gold license) would need a similar pattern (not sure if MediaMonkey handles MIDI files, but it might).

I pondered that on MIDI as well. The file type may not be critical and you may be able to add it to supported file types if it's not already there. I'm just unable to test at the moment.

I've not used Media Monkey - I'm sure it's good and this might be harder to use but has a lot of features. It is free MP3tag, it adds itself to your "right click" no issues in last 5-6 years I've been using

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Larry

last minute edit: It will do batch of files within same directory

Another edit add-on sorry for hijsack: somewhat related if you want audio batch file conversion and feel more comfortable paying for a tool this is on sale for $25 and at checkout its like $22

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plug-ins/presonus-audio-batch-converter

looks like it is not stand alone but will work with PreSonus's free Studio One Prime

+1 from me as well for MP3tag.

I'm sure the purpose built applications will do the job best, but Notepad++ has a Macro record and playback feature (as John mentioned), and handles huge files.

This sounds like a fairly simple job using Dos & Excel (or LibreOffice)...

01. Use Dos to create a text file of the directory with the mp3s...
(dir *.mp3 /O:N > ArtistsNameSongTitle.txt)...
02. Open ArtistsNameSongTitle.txt in Excel (or LibreOffice) using appropriate Delimiter options...
03. Delete unnecessary columns (Date, Time, File Size, etc)...
04. Use formulas to switch out & reorder the Artist Name & Song Title to Song Title & Artist Name...
05. Add a new column A with "ren " without the quotes all the way down for all entries...
06. Insert columns needed for spaces in Dos batch file...
07. Save as a text file (SongTitleArtistsName.txt)
08. Check the text file...
09. Each line should read something like this...
(ren BeatlesPennyLane.mp3 PennyLaneBeatles.mp3)...
10. Back up your mp3s (in case something goes wrong)...
11. Rename SongTitleArtistsName.txt to SongTitleArtistsName.bat
11. Run the batch file.

Or

1. Use Dos to create a text file of the directory with the mp3s...
(dir *.mp3 /O:N > ArtistsNameSongTitle.txt)...
2. Send it to Steve (sslechta) & let him create the batch file you need...
(I understand he is pretty good with Excel)

Hope this helps

PS: If Steve can't help...
Contact me & I'll give it a try.

Just make sure they have a space on either side of the hyphen.
RegEx (1)
Match: (.*)( - )(.*)
Replace: \3\2\1

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

Bulk rename utility is what I’ve used in the past. I haven’t used it exactly the way you are needing, but I have used it to both prefix and suffix on mass quantities of files.

Thanks folks!

I have a number of options now. I'll try them on the .mid files first, since they are small and a copy takes no time at all.

Looks like a project for early next week!

Notes

Thanks again all. I found a text editor that will do batch files and completed the MIDI files in less than an hour.

Tomorrow the mp3 files.