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joaoal
Asked: 2015-09-20 17:41:40 +0800 CST

Fix wrong encoding of filenames

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strangely the encodings from some music I got from a friend with Windows 7 OS show up with a wrong encoding in nautlius . I already tried it with 

convmv --notest -r -f windows-1255 -t utf-8 *

but it didn't fix it. It rather but another wrong encoding. I tried also with latin1 and latin3. Since I don't know what the original encoding was and I can't find that out, I keep wondering what my options are.

Thx for any advice.

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2 Answers

  1. To try all the encodings, choose one of your files, eg mychosenfile.mp3m, and then loop through all the encodings. With luck you will find one that seems to be ok. This just lists the possible new names:

    file=mychosenfile.mp3
for enc in $(convmv --list)
do  echo $enc: $(convmv --parsable -f $enc -t utf-8 "$file")
done

    Alternatively, you can rename the files to the song track and title taken from the id3 tag if they have one. For example, (this just echo's the mv command):

    find mydir -name '*.mp3' |
while read file
do if newname="$(id3info "$file" |
        awk -F': ' '
         /^=== TRCK/{ track = $2 }
         /^=== TIT2/{ title=$2;gsub(" ","_",title) }
         END        { if(title!="")printf "%02d_%s.mp3\n",track,title }
        ')"
   then dir=$(dirname "$file")
        echo mv "$file" "$dir/$newname"
   fi
done
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  2. To remove special characters from all filenames, use detox:

    detox -r -v -s utf8 /path/to/files/

    You may also pass -n to see what it will done and verify it sounds sensible.

    To rename all files according to their music tags, use lltag:

    lltag -R --mp3v2 --mp3read=21 --rename '/new/path/%a/%A/%n %t' /path/to/files

    You should consider passing --dry-run to first invocation to see what will be done; pass --yes if you are tired of answering questions (might affect quality of new names in case of missing tags and the like).

    More details are in man detox and man lltag.

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