does anyone know of any free windows software that can bulk rename files?
I have a drawer full of music files and most are very similarly named it`s impossible to find what I want, so renaming them as Numbers would be better, then I can just catalogue those.
There’s probably many ways, you could try searching for a script file that could run through command prompt as well.
Looks like windows will do it automatically
pity, I`m only windows 7 
You can still upgrade to windows 10 for free if want too, but thats a personal choice.
i have windows 7 and i just tested it works the same
just select all rename one and they all have the same name +(x+1)
I think this would be far more useful…
Automatically.
Thanks each! 
This worked great, Cheers!
Katherine,
try this FREE neat tool:
There is also Tag & Rename for about $30
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
I just throw together a perl script.
Once you’re done cataloguing, if you have a list of before-and-after, toss it to me and I can whip up a quick batch file (easy as falling off a toilet if done in ‘vim’) and you can rename them “right”.
Me, I like to create multi-level dirs,
artist → year + album → “01. First Track.mp3”
etc.
Eg,
“Within Temptation” / “(2014) Hydra” / “01. Let Us Burn.mp3”, “02. Dangerous.mp3”, “03. And We Run.mp3”, …
For a 2 ceedee collection, tracks would be numbered 101, 102, 103, … for disc 1, and 201, 202, 203, … for disc 2.
This way, no matter how they’re sorted, they come out in-order.
‘’Bulk rename utility’’ works great.
Thanks everyone!
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