Topic: Need tune title renamer for show info .txt files

[JLSteffen]

I'm looking for a way to change a tune title in a bunch of show info .txt files, without having to manually edit each file. Any application that would search for a string of characters and replace it in a .txt file would do, because I could write a batch script that would search a directory structure. The Linux sed tool would work, but I don't want to have to load an entire UNIX environment on my Windows PC. Does anyone know of a Windows application that will do this?

The reason I want to do this is that sometimes a band changes the working title of a new tune when it releases it on a CD. I can change the title tag easily in a bunch of files, but I'd like to go back and update the show info files, so that they are accurate when I share the shows on a DC hub.

(For bands where I try to collect every show, when I get a new show I always update the info file before using the live show tagger plug-in to foobar2000 to set the title tags, so the info file is accurate at that point.)

Joe Steffen

[ghellquist]

If you are comfortable with Unix tools and shells you can run a lot of them on top of Windows. This does not take you chaning OS to UNIX, just download the programs you want.

sed should be downloadable from here together with a lot of other utils.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html


// Gunnar

[sunjan]

Google "batch text substitution in multiple text files"  Have not tried any of the 32,500 Hits.

Pretty much every text editor has this functionality. Look in the "regex" column here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Basic_features

If your song titles contain Unicode chars, your choice will be a bit more limited, but there are still options.
TextPad, EmEditor, JEdit are some of the shareware/donationware that works fine with me.

[JLSteffen]

TextCrawler is everything I was looking for and more! Thanks!