Rename music files through Ex Falso

If you have a huge collection of music files already, sometimes you realize that you were too lazy to add tags and/or descriptive file names to them. It’s a mess! Especially when you are looking for particular artists or titles or you’re in the mood to create a ‘mix CD’/'mix tape’ But no need to worry! Ex Falso will help you organize your files.

Ex Falso screenshot by Clair Ching, 2008.

Just look for a package of this nifty application in your distro’s repository and voila~! Soon you will have this tool ready to save you from mess!

Ex Falso has three main panes. One is for viewing the directories/folders that you have on your computer. The one below it is for the songs listed down. And the last one, which is the main pane, will have various tabs that will let you manage the information on the files.

You could do the following:
1. Edit tags one by one, or by batch.
2. Give tags based on the filenames.
3. Assign track numbers.

You could assign various tags, even your own tags, if you want to. There’s an Add Tag feature, after all. Sometimes when adding tags, I mistype labels or the tag type so it looks silly when I read the tag type “artst” so I have to change that in the Tags tab of the main pane.

Note that it seems like you need to save your changes in one tab before they are reflected in the other tabs. Aside from that you need to do some other thing first before they are reflected. It seems to not immediately load the changes that a user makes. There’s a Preview button you could click so you could check out the changes anyway.

Have fun re-tagging your files!