Hello,
is any of the sample managing applications able to batch rename your samples using the info already embedded in them? I guess I could use one of the many mp3 taggers for the flac files, but what about acid wavs. I haven't noticed any mp3 tagger reading acid data from wav files, does any? I'd like to have the relevant info in the filenames to make it always accessible even if a particular music program doesn't support reading it from the tags.
Batch renaming samples
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- KVRer
- 9 posts since 14 Aug, 2007
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- KVRAF
- 3411 posts since 6 Nov, 2006
i use renamer but it's mac only i think. not sure it does everything you're after. i use it when making sample libraries. it's easy to add/insert/remove text from folders full of files... any files..
https://renamer.com
https://renamer.com
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- KVRist
- 394 posts since 8 Feb, 2011
I use a different renamer for windows
https://antp.be/software/renamer
https://antp.be/software/renamer
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 14 Aug, 2007
Thanks for the tips, unfortunately these don't seem to read acid data from wav files, just like all the other general use renamers/id3 taggers I already checked out. For some reason no one thought of adding this feature even though it's obviously conceptually the same as using info from id3 tags to rename your mp3s. That's why I was hoping perhaps some of the sample manager apps would do that since that's what the acid data is intended for. I tried ADSR Sample Manager but for some reason it wasn't able to properly read all the acid info (it was able to only extract the tempo), so I didn't waste time exploring its possible renaming features.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 14 Aug, 2007
TagScanner is one of the taggers I already tried and it doesn't read Acid data. Thanks anyway 
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 14 Aug, 2007
Just tried Sononym. Instead of simply reading Acid info this one scans the files and calculates the properties (tempo, root note) itself. This means it's much slower than if it just read what's already provided and, more importantly, wrong as it messes up both tempo and root note on enough samples to make it useless for the job at hand. Not to mention it doesn't have batch renaming anyway.
One struggles to understand how such products are designed and created. On the one hand they have some really clever advanced features like search by similarity which seems to actually work quite nicely, but on the other hand the basic stuff is woefully inadequate and I mean stuff that's pertinent to the app's stated focus, not necessarily renaming which they may regard as beyond the scope.
One struggles to understand how such products are designed and created. On the one hand they have some really clever advanced features like search by similarity which seems to actually work quite nicely, but on the other hand the basic stuff is woefully inadequate and I mean stuff that's pertinent to the app's stated focus, not necessarily renaming which they may regard as beyond the scope.
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- KVRist
- 394 posts since 8 Feb, 2011
Would you please indicate what you're expecting?
Closest I found in a web search was:
I have been using ACID pro for a pretty long time now...
"Acidized" is just propaganda speak for a .wav file that loops properly when looped. Nothing more.
EDIT
Outside of the fact it's a loop, and where it's stored on my system; this is all Acid Studio gives me for an original Sony Acid Wave... Sound Forge Pro gives ~ the same Anyway - don't know about batching (yet), but this might be your baseline
Says it will - Generate filenames from tags (never mind the forums auto link indication - actual below)
However doesn't provide info for the Sony file I was testing with...
https://kid3.kde.org/
Thanks!
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 9 posts since 14 Aug, 2007
ACID is an old and established metadata format for wav files from the creators of the Acid (Pro) loop based program. By established I mean, several current DAWs support it and lots of sample libraries come with so called acidized wavs. The metadata can store some relevant information like you see in the Sound Forge screenshot you provided. What I'm looking for is a program that can read that acid data AND use it to rename a batch of files like it's common using info from id3tags when say renaming mp3s. This way I could add whatever info is in the acid metadata to the filenames themselves which would let me see the relevant info at a glance in any environment whether it's acid aware or not.
There are a lot of apps like kid3 that would be perfect for what I would like to do if only they would read acid metadata. Unfortunately none of those I tested so far do, kid3 doesn't seem to either. They only read the basic WAV metadata, stuff like copyright information, but not the much more useful acid metadata. No app I tested that can batch rename files reads the acid data and the apps that do read it, have no renaming capabilities.