GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 579944
button to update file names for whole library based on existing metadata
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:27:44 UTC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/364525 I really like banshee's "Update file and folder names (Enabling this option ensures that files and folders are renamed according to their metadata" preference option, which keeps your ~/Music folder organized based on the folder hierarchy you specify. However, currently this renaming only takes place when you save metadata to a file. It would be useful to have a button that causes this to happen for the whole library (e.g., so you can rename/reorganize on first import of an existing library). The only way to achieve this today is to select all songs, right click and choose 'edit track information' and then keep clicking Forward (or keep pressing ALT+F) to go through all the songs without changing any of the values, then on the final song hitting 'Save', this causes the renaming process to be invoked. It would be nice if this was more intuitive.
This would be really useful. You can of course move your library out of the way and re-import it, but it takes a loooong time.
It would be nice if selecting the "Update file and folder names" option would automatically perform this option for all songs already in the library. I believe that's how iTunes handles it, and that may eliminate the need for a separate button to perform this operation for all songs.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.