How to move music from original firmware to rockbox (Ipod)

[that_asian_guy]

A couple days ago, I recieved about 8 gigs of music, and now it's all on my original ipod firmware. The original files are tagged, but the file names are completely random. Also, the songs on my ipod are also in the weird ipod file system (F01, F02 etc.). I dont want to rename 2000+ songs, so are there any applications that can do this for me, so I can move all the new music to the file system i already have set up in rockbox (artist/album/song)?

[michael.conner]

Assuming you're using Windows, "Tag and Rename" is a very good, if not free, tagging program.  It can rename files based on the ID3 tags to whatever format you want, like:

track number - title
artist - album - track number - title

and so forth.

You can move the files all to a single directory, then run the program, then break them up into folders as you see fit.

http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

Foobar2000 can do the same thing, too, and is free. 
http://www.foobar2000.org

Edit: Now that I'm looking at it more closely, Foobar2000 can also create filetree structures based on the ID3 tags.  I'd never used that option before, but there it is.

[bascule]

As can MP3Tag

[Toxikator]

First, make sure that you're using .mp3s and not the iTunes format (an encoded AAC).

Second, the short way is to switch rockbox to Database mode, which will browse according to tags (the way the iPod firmware does).

If you ARE set on using the filetree view, you can load the audio into Foobar2000 and use the File>Rename macro, combined with a customized renaming system to create filenames from the tags in the files. Again, though, this is not going to work for the encoded AACs.

[that_asian_guy]

Ok thanks. Will Foobar work for non-encoded aacs?

[Llorean]

The statement "non-encoded aacs" doesn't really make much sense at all. What do you mean?

[that_asian_guy]

Sorry, I meant an aac that was made with itunes but not like protected or anything, like the music that you buy from the itunes music store

[ryran]

Yes Foobar will work with unprotected aac.
easy steps:
load all your files into foobar and then highlight them all
right-click, file operations > move, rename, or copy files
change the output file name format to whatever you want (very easy to edit)
then just select an output directory and be done with it.

[saratoga]

I strongly recommend foobar for this.  It supports reading tags on all formats that Rockbox can read tags from (and even some that it can't).  I've been using it for years to organize and my music and have never had a problem.

[Toxikator]

Indeed.

And FTR Rockbox should also read non-DRE'd AAC files, as well.