Batch renaming .mp+ to .mpc
 

This is perhaps slightly off topic, but it's still related to musepack.

Does anyone know how I can batch rename all my old .mp+ files to .mpc files?

The reason behind this is that I want to use mp3tag to correct a few errors in some tags in the old mp+ files, and I can't get mp3tag to read the mp+ files, only mpc files (despite having added *.mp+ to the extension list in the mp3tag options). I asked about this on the mp3tag forum a few days back, but had no reply. So I'm trying you guys!

Thanks,

Mike

Ganymed (Mp3tag developer) is currently away from his computer, he'll come back to it in about 2 days :).

You can rename a batch of your files using "ren *.mp+ *.mpc" in a command line window inside the folder with the mp+ files. (or "ren *.mp+ E:somefolder*.mp+ *.mpc")
Or you could use some program that specializes in batch renaming, like renamefiles.

don't people use sweep (on windows) for this sorta thing?

and isn't ren absent from XP?


later

ren works on xp.
So for windows (not as elegant as in linux, i know) I think the following is a good solution:
Make a batchfile, e.g. renmpc.bat, with the following content:
Download Sweep
http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/files/?C=M;O=A
Put Sweep.exe and renmpc.bat in %PATH% (e.g. System32), open a CMD window on the topmost directory of your Musepack files and type:
and you will get recursive renaming. You can furthermore put this in folder contextmenu, but I haven't got the template for that reg file here. I can add this later if wanted.

[EDIT]
Actually I figured it out. You'll have to make the renmpc.bat like this:
and then make and import (doubleclick, answer yes) a reg file like this (you can name it renmpc.reg):
You'll need sweep.exe and renmpc.bat in System32 for this.
[/EDIT]

Thanks, all, for your help. Much appreciated.

Mike