More efficient way of adding music note numbers to file names?

Sunshy · 2008-11-21 20:18

Hello, I'm creating a sampled instrument and thus renaming a lot of .wav files which are named this way:

Filename 21 description.wav
Filename 22 description.wav
Filename 23 description.wav
Filename 24 description.wav
Filename 25 description.wav
Filename 26 description.wav
Filename 27 description.wav

I'd like to add a specific note name to accompany each number and have them end up named this way:

Filename A0 21 description.wav
Filename A#0 22 description.wav
Filename B0 23 description.wav
Filename C1 24 description.wav
Filename C#1 25 description.wav
Filename D1 26 description.wav
Filename D#1 27 description.wav

I'm prepared to program many "find replace" rules (88 of them) as follows: find: 21 and replace with: A0 21, find: 22 and replace with: A#0 22, etc. But is there a more efficient way of accomplishing this? Any insight would be appreciated!

Stefan · 2008-11-22 02:53

Hi Sunshy and welcome.

One way is to use an Translit file

1.) create an new text file in Translits folder , with name f.ex. notes.txt
2.) fill this notes.txt-file with your substitutes:
21=A0 21
22=A#0 22

3.) Add rule "Translit"
4.) load notes.txt with the little 'AB'-button

Here is an picture for better explanation.

Last edited by Stefan (2008-11-22 02:55)

Sunshy · 2008-11-22 05:33

Hi Stefan, thanks very much for the informative response. It worked great. Hopefully now I can just tweak this file in something like microsoft word (using find/replace) if I need to edit it a bit. I love renamer. I have fun renaming files!

Stefan · 2008-11-22 09:35

You are welcome, great this works for you.

Sunshy wrote:

... Hopefully now I can just tweak this file in something like microsoft word (using find/replace) if I need to edit it a bit. ...

Sure you can, just take care to save it as plain text *.txt file.

But why WORD?, notepad is all you need.
BTW, there is a good MS-notepad replacement at http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html with more nifty features if you care.

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#1 2008-11-21 20:18

More efficient way of adding music note numbers to file names?

#2 2008-11-22 02:53

Re: More efficient way of adding music note numbers to file names?

#3 2008-11-22 05:33

Re: More efficient way of adding music note numbers to file names?

#4 2008-11-22 09:35

Re: More efficient way of adding music note numbers to file names?

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