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If you've been downloading This American Life episodes as I've described here and are tired of randomly deciding which episode to listen to, I hacked out a script to rename them based on a list of episode names I found on Wikipedia and formatted to suit my purpose. If any of you other TAL obsessed folks want to use it, feel free. You'll have to do this on a windows computer, unless macs can run visual basic scripts...

There are two files you need,

Rename TAL Episodes.vbs
episodelist.txt

Download a zip of the files here.

All you have to do is drop these two files wherever you have the This American Life mp3s, then go into Rename TAL Episodes.vbs and change g:\mp3\tal\ to wherever you want the renamed files to go (c:\mp3\ or whatever). Save it, then double click Rename TAL Episodes.vbs. This is going to make copies of each file, so send it somewhere that has the space. Did that so I didn't screw up my or your mp3s just in case something went awry. You can always delete the old ones once you're satisfied they were copied correctly.

Also, this assumes that your files are named tal-number.mp3, like tal-1.mp3, tal-2.mp3, etc, because that's how they're named when you get them from the server. You'll have to add any new episodes by hand to the file, or you can always rename them one by one once you have the bulk of your files renamed using this script. If you add them to the file, just put them in chronological order in episodelist.txt in the format episodenumber-episodetitle. Ex: 1-New Beginning

This worked great for me. I didn't edit the ID3 tags, but if you care, you can always get a program that changes the tags based on the filename.