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Fred F.

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Registered: 2009-11-05

Posts: 2

Context Menu Entries 'Wot I Wrote'

Hello All

Just been playing around - I do a lot of the preparation of .Mp3 files for my very basic MP3 Player out of the reach of the Keyboard, and so like to do as much as I can using just the mouse.

Using ReNamer.exe and the following Registry Entries, you can re-name your podcasts, or any other .Mp3 files with the Title or any other field from the MetaData using only the Context Menu.

There are two entries: 1. for Individual .Mp3 files and 2. for Complete Directories.

Reg Entry 1. - [Renames Individual Mp3 Files]

======= Start Contents of Registry Entry =======

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mp3file\shell\ReTitle]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mp3file\shell\ReTitle\Command]
@="\"D:\\Prog Sources\\ReNamer\\ReNamer\\ReNamer.exe\" /rename \"Pods\" \"%L\""

======= End of Registry Entry ============

Reg Entry 2. - [Renames All the Mp3 Files is a given Folder]

======= Start Contents of Registry Entry =======

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\ReTitle]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\ReTitle\Command]
@="\"D:\\Prog Sources\\ReNamer\\ReNamer\\ReNamer.exe\" /rename \"Pods\" \"/fn:%1\""

======= End of Registry Entry ============

Location of the Renamer.exe should be self explanatory, the "Pods" is the result of saving my settings when using the Program in its normal mode.

I have called the Context Menu Items 'ReTitle', as using 'Rename' messes up the core windows function with the same name.

Hope this is clear, if not let me know and I will try to explain.

Remember this is Windows XP [SP3] - don't know about any other OS.

Best

Fred F.

PS. I have also posted this on the Forum where I first got the idea for using the Registry Entries :

  http://mpex.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8 … e4c2#84058

PPS. Sorry if this is not original, but I did a bit of searching around before posting.

Andrew

Senior Member

Registered: 2008-05-22

Posts: 542

Re: Context Menu Entries 'Wot I Wrote'

Welcome and thanks for sharing! I'm sure it'll help someone.

prologician

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 84

Re: Context Menu Entries 'Wot I Wrote'

A cute idea and a different angle of attack there, Fred. The alternative (adding entries into the Send To menu, which is a thingy built into ReNamer) does follow these lines as well. It avoids the registry tweaking, but the cost is that you have to go through the Send To menu, which is likely full of stuff never before used, and possibly needs some serious cleanup and reorganization.

If this was a feature you overlooked by accident, you can get to it by loading up ReNamer, going to the Presets menu (this assumes that you saved your previous stuff as a Preset), and going to Create Links.

Fred F.

Member

Registered: 2009-11-05

Posts: 2

Re: Context Menu Entries 'Wot I Wrote'

Hello All

Doh! - Looks like I might have re-invented the wheel!

Still might be useful to someone, and I have learnt a bit in the process.

That said - the prog. itself is proving invaluable - Thanks for providing it.

Best

Fred F.