Renaming Recovered FLAC Files In A Large Batch From Hard Disk Crash On Mac OS

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A (bash) script is perhaps the most appropriate solution.

I do not use Mac (Linux only) but bash syntax is the same.

In this case only renames flac files, not to directories. It can be modified to do so.

I recommend you try it in a directory created for this purpose (with a copy of some flac files in multiple directories) to see if it does what you expect.

The format is: track n° - title

 

You only need to install flac and metaflac if you did not. You can check this by opening a terminal and typing metaflac --help.

If the program is recognized skip to 2-

 

1- If the program is not recognized, you must install:

- with Homebrew

brew install flac

-Or downloading binary (eg Rarewares, not the latest version but anyway) and copying it to your PATH -as root or with sudo- eg:

mv flac metaflac /usr/local/bin
cd /usr/local/bin
chmod a+x metaflac flac

 

2- If you already have them installed, copy the following into an empty file:

#!/bin/bash

for i in *.flac
do

TITLE=`metaflac "$i" --show-tag=TITLE | sed s/.*=//g`
TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac "$i" --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER | sed s/.*=//g`
#ARTIST=`metaflac "$i" --show-tag=ARTIST | sed s/.*=//g`
#ALBUM=`metaflac "$i" --show-tag=ALBUM | sed s/.*=//g`

mv "$i" "$TRACKNUMBER - $TITLE.flac"
done

save it, name it as you like (for example renameflac), and move it to your PATH -as root o with sudo- (or you can create a symbolic link, especially if you want to change it later) eg:

mv renameflac /usr/local/bin
cd /usr/local/bin
chmod a+x renameflac

Close the Terminal.

Thus it became a "pseudo-program"

 

3- You have everything ready. Now navigate with the terminal to the directory where you have all the flac:

cd "path/to/directory with flac files/"

in your case I think

cd "/unix/Volumes/Old Files Recovered/"

*It may be more comfortable be placed in the directory with Finder and "Open a Terminal Here"

I think Mac does not have the "Open Terminal Here" function but can be added with ShellHere

In this terminal type:

 find -name "*.flac" -execdir renameflac {} \;

Remember that only renames files, not directories. This can be changed (I am not an expert of bash scripting, but I can try to help)

 

Sorry for my english.