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I recently put a load of mp3s on a CDR to transfer them from one install of XP to another. Like a fool I forgot to put the files into an archive first, so now I have a bunch of files called THE_HERBALISER_SOME.mp3 etc which (a) looks ugly, and (b) means I can't tell what the longer files actually are.

Yes, I am an idiot.

But my question is, does anyone know of an mp3 renaming tool (preferably free) that can extract info from the ID3 tags and rename the files along the lines of - etc. It won't work for all the files, but it would be a start.

I know exactly what you mean, and if you have access to Linux I could give you the PERL script I wrote :)

Visual Mp3 (free)
or
Thomson Musicmatch (free, but keeps asking for upgrades)

I recently put a load of mp3s on a CDR to transfer them from one install of XP to another. Like a fool I forgot to put the files into an archive first, so now I have a bunch of files called THE_HERBALISER_SOME.mp3 etc which (a) looks ugly, and (b) means I can't tell what the longer files actually are.

Yes, I am an idiot.

But my question is, does anyone know of an mp3 renaming tool (preferably free) that can extract info from the ID3 tags and rename the files along the lines of - etc. It won't work for all the files, but it would be a start.