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changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 12:50 PM
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How do I get round this ?
I Recall that at one time I had no problem in renaming tracks of mp3 files.
Please advise.
Using windows XP
NB the files are indeed unusable as they fail to play in an mp3 player.
Re: changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 1:06 PM
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Note the .mp3 at the end.
However using Windows Explorer the default setting is to hide known file extensions so "track1.mp3" might appear as "track1" so changing it to "newtrack.mp3" would in fact change it to "newtrack.mp3.mp3" which would rather mess things up and so you would just change the name to "newtrack"
Re: changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 1:26 PM
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When they are hidden, you can't edit them - thus the message would not appear, and the issue would not exist.
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18-02-2010 1:34 PM
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I just tried and when the extensions were visible again I had this track1.mp3.wav
However changing a .mp3 to a .mp3.mp3 didn't make it unreadable and the message didn't appear
Re: changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 1:38 PM
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You can type in the filename when the extension is hidden - you cannot type the extension in.
In your example, you have a file called track1.mp3 with a file extension of .wav
Full stops are permitted in filenames.
Re: changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 1:39 PM
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18-02-2010 1:46 PM
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If it just looked at the first few bytes of the file it would know that it's a mp3 file!
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 1:55 PM
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Re: changing file name extensions
18-02-2010 10:46 PM
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http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
Works a treat, very powerful but takes a bit of getting used to.
Regards,
Neil
Re: changing file name extensions
19-02-2010 7:25 AM
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Re: changing file name extensions
19-02-2010 8:04 AM
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Quote from: Oldjim When they are hidden you can still type in the extension
I just tried and when the extensions were visible again I had this track1.mp3.wav
However changing a .mp3 to a .mp3.mp3 didn't make it unreadable and the message didn't appear
Nice work - change your post when somebody tells you it's wrong.
Shame you still don't get it.
You haven't changed the extension, it is still .mp3 - just because the filename also contains .mp3 does not change anything at all.
track1.mp3.mp3 is a track called track1.mp3 with an extension of .mp3
Re: changing file name extensions
19-02-2010 9:58 AM
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Perhaps if you stopped to check before you posted it would be better
Re: changing file name extensions
19-02-2010 3:49 PM
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The additional information supplied by Pierre-Pierre & Njal regarding the bulk change of file names was also very useful.
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