The GodFather is an intelligent MP3 renamer and organizer, that helps you get rid of all those strange MP3 file names and convert them into a consistent name scheme, based on the artist, song, album information etc. contained in the MP3 tag.

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The program will scan your MP3 folders and automatically suggest candidates for new names, showing you the old and suggested name in the result window. You can then select which files to rename (if any). The GodFather also provides file and folder management and can create entire folder structures based on ID3 tag information. Additional features include create/merge play lists, encode-decode with LAME, export to file, play, freedb.org support and more. Well designed interface.

Features of The GodFather 0.71 :

• Batch rename of files using Tag/Filename/Folder name/Audio file information:
- User defined Formats using Tag fields, File/Folder name or Tokens, Mpeg bitrate/mode as variables .
- Powerful case conversion including custom case and all the options you would ever want.
- Replacement matrix. ( remove unwanted characters or words or replace them. User defined matrix )
- Smart filters enable you to have only the files that are potentially wrong listed for renaming.
- Further refine your list to be processed by marking files to be skipped or ever edit the end result your self.
- Undo function.
• Batch Tag update:
- Supports both ID3v1 & ID3v2 up to date versions.
- Supports Ogg Vorbis comments.
- Supports APEv2 tags.
- Select specific fields to be updated
- Use File/Folder tokens, Tag variables to create tag information
- Filter files by the existence of tags or even by the existence of specific fields
- Update either Tag or all of them.
- Option to clear specific fields.
- Option to skip non empty fields.
- Use the case options.
- Use of the replacement matrix.
- Update tags by copying/moving or auto synchronizing one to the other.
- Delete all Tags or either one of them.
- Batch process of pictures/lyrics ( export, delete or both )
- Complete control trough the update process.
• Manual / single file editor:
- All of the above options are laid out to selectively choose, either one of them or all of them, for renaming or Tag update or both.
- Update or remove either of the tags
- Full ID3 v2 support including.. pictures,lyrics and more than 20 fields.
- Full Ogg Vorbis support including all proposed fields plus any number of user defined ones..
- Full APEv2 support including all proposed fields plus any number of user defined ones..
- File browser with detailed info of Tags & mpeg or Ogg vorbis/mpc/ape information , sorting and so on.
- Intuitive interface so potentially wrong fields/filenames are immediately found and presented.
• Organize:
- Easily create/merge play lists with preview support or simply find and listen to your favorite music.
- Encode/decode your files with LAME,Ogg Vorbis or mpcenc. (trans code with out losing tag information from one format to the other)
- Restructure the files on your hard disk ( copy,move or even create shortcuts ) in new user defined location based on Tag field information.
- Find duplicate files using smart and aggressive detection.
- xport files in delimited, fixed length format, Simple HTML or multiple pages using user defined templates.
- Import information from delimited files to rename and.or update your files, customized mapping to columns.
• Play your music:
- Internal player with 16 band equalizer.
- Display tag info/lyrics/pictures while playing, option to display pictures from folders.
- Automatically search @allmusic.com.
- Easy to load single files/play lists.
- Play list queue.
• Album/filename rename & update using freedb.org or www.allmusic.com, Amazon, and custom sites:
- Full text search support (freeDb), Disk ID generated from the files in the folder or usage of the original CD-ROM supported.
- Album/Artist filter (freeDb,text search).
- Single track query using.
- Use album art and/or full comments, credits, tones, styles, composer (AMG)
- "Various artists" album support.
- Auto sort according to duration.
- Auto match according to Tag/Filename.
- Edit the results and preview changes.
- Rename and or update files at batch or one by one.
- Amazon image grabber
- Custom web sites parsing
• Catalog your files in a powerful library:
- Store cover art and up to 4 pictures per album.
- Store detailed info for each artist like bio, and misc other info, pictures etch.
- Use allmusic to retrieve the above data effortlessly.
- Powerful user defined tree views.
- Persistent user queries with random record retrieval, prompted values etch.
- Hierarchical play lists.
- Export to xls, HTML, play list files.
- Very fast with 1000's of files.
• General:
- Custom file filtering using Tag fields/bitrate. ( multiple user defined filters are supported with and/or functionality, Wildcard support <*?>, sounds like ~ support.)
- Search in local or network locations.
- File mask support including wildcards (*?).
- Sub folder support.
- Custom colors to easily spot files according to Tag existence or Bitrate.
- Smart ID3 Tag detection in case of both being present.
- User defined ID3v2 padding size.
- Supports ID3v2 compressed frames.
- Language files support
- Extend program functionality with scripts.

Changes in The GodFather 0.71 beta 2 :

• New:
- Cover art support for APEv2 tags (using the exact same format of the ID3 APIC frame)
- Small UI changes ( rename/tag/manual edit/lib )
- Filters merged and added VBR/CBR options
- Options redesigned and merged
- freedb protocol usage normalized + hybrid mode
- freedb text search URL's at options
- Playlist button option to open or save by default
- BPM field is editable
- File list view replaced with grid in organize/playlister encoder section.
- Restructure, better error control and recycle bin usage based on option.
- Library physically delete files option.
- Library has a new grid control
- Library Update tags, option to clear all pictures first.
- Library auto update tags upon rating option
- Library option to clear comment when used for album review (saves a lot of space for large reviews in comment field)
• Fixes:
- Library, export to simple m3u respects options
- Library, assign new artist/album creates one entry for all selected tracks
- Library, update tags from library saves credits (IPLS field) correctly
- Scripts, tg_getField('Folder') did not work properly
- mp4 files, gnre atom fix
- mp4 files 'free' accepted as an ilst sub-atom
- Batch tag update, pictures other than jpg/png convert properly
- Filters, Tag existence based on multiple missing fields works ok again
- Restructure, overwrite flag does not delete files if a failure occurs.
- Copy/Paste, language field added and BPM field is used when 'all other' is checked