It doesn't work with every MP3 but that's because not everyone making MP3 files does it right. As well as speeding up your time organizing files so you can find what you need, that might let you throw away the lesser quality audio files without even playing them.

So, you might drag in a hundred MP3s and yes, sort them into artist or something, but also just arrange them by bitrate. It's when there is a lot to do and it's especially when what you want is more complicated that you need ABFR.

This adding a client name is easy for ABFR and it's actually easy enough for you to do manually: if there aren't that many files, you could go right ahead and rename them without buying ABFR. It's then like a Search and Replace: we say we want to change every occurrence of 'zzz' to 'BBC4' or whatever the client name is.Ī Better Finder Rename MacABFR shows us a list of our files as soon as we've dragged them in and then when we've chosen an option, also shows us what the result would be for each file. We choose ABFR's Text category and its option to 'Replace text at beginning'. ABFR will show you very clearly what you're about to do: you get a list showing the files as they're named now and what they will be renamed to if you say so.įor instance, if we're doing that business with the client files then we might drag in generic ones called 'zzz Original Brief', 'zzz Costings' and so on. Then you drag over all the files to ABFR's window and let go. To do this or any other renaming, you open up ABFR and choose from a truly startling number of possible ways to rename files. With ABFR you could create all of those documents and all of those folders with some generic name and then rename them with the client's details when you're ready.

Better file rename 5.1