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Old 02-06-2017, 08:11 AM   #1
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Restarting - bulk file name reformat?
I am restarting Caliber on a new computer dedicated to E-books and Audiobooks.

When it comes to e-books, what I have done is search my main computer for every .MOBI file there was, and dump them all into a "Mobi Library" folder.

Looking in, I see there are hundreds and hundreds of files, and their naming conventions are .. well. diverse.
Is there an application that will read and interpret the file name, go out and search, and then suggest a corrected, uniform new name for the file name to be changed to?

Ideally, I would like to do all of these files in bulk, and THEN bring them into Calibre.

I would of course like to do this with my audio books as well- as I had heard there was some plugin for audiobooks? I have not investigated that at all yet, but I am very hopeful.

Is there any such application that you guys know about that will help me make my actual file names a uniform format?
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Yes. It's called calibre.

Just import into calibre, delete the duplicates, and then get the metadata sorted out in calibre.

If you then want a folder of files with nice uniform names, export from calibre with an appropriate file name export definition.
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@Tang - calibre's Add Books preference settings has an option to extract the metadata from with the .MOBI files when you add them, rather than from the file names.

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Media File Importer Plug-in
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I would of course like to do this with my audio books as well- as I had heard there was some plugin for audiobooks?
@Tang:

Yes: Media File Importer, MFI.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=277104

MFI is not just for audiobooks. Anything, really. Read the Original Post textual comments carefully, and view the OP image attachments for examples.

The latest version is: Version 1.0.16 dated 2016-09-07



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