I'm doing a huge project for a friend from the CDs and they are his. He had over a hundred CDs and I don't know this type of music so I would not know which song or artist any of them were if the file names were changed. He was with me at my house at the time I posted the original post and was instructing which songs he wanted from each disc and I numbered them in the order he wanted them in the folders so they'd be in that order when we burned them to CDs. I need them to have their correct artist and title like I'd typed them to print the tracklist for each disc. He doesn't have a computer and doesn't know how to use them so he has me do mixes for him sometimes but I'd never before done it in this manner. Usually we just have downloaded MP3s of songs that were ripped from vinyl records so this file re-naming was never any issue.
I wanted the file names to stay the way I put them so we'd know which songs were which. This project was taking a long time to be getting songs from many individual discs and by the time we realized this was happening we had several files then and didn't know which songs were which and kept having to listen to them and re-name the files only to find they'd reverted to original titles every time we went back to the folders. Meta data is irrelevant as I won't be listening to the music myself on any computer and my friend is an older man who does not own, nor know how to use, computer or MP3 players. He'll be playing the custom mixes on his on CD player and looking at printed paper tracklist while he listens, as he always does.
