My car stereo/ipod interface only allows me to view 'track name,' not
artist name, in most modes.  I have the idea that I could add the
artist name to the track name, so that "Help" by the beatles becomes
"Help, The Beatles" etc.  I'd like to be able to do it to all the
songs on my ipod, including those no longer in my library.  Using XP. 
Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 12 Apr 2006 10:52 PDT

Does this fit your needs?

Scroll to the 2nd entry:
Add Text at end (of Track Name) 
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=7#addtextatend

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by paul098-ga on 12 Apr 2006 13:41 PDT

It's really close.  In application, tho, I think I'd have to manually
enter the artist name for artist;  I could select all my Beatles songs
(to continue my example), and add text "Beatles" at the end, but I'm
hoping there's a script that will let me automatically add whatever's
in the field "artist name" to the end of the track name.

Thanks for your help.  Will be a great Plan B if a fully automated
script can't be found.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 12 Apr 2006 14:14 PDT

During my research I didn't find anything like that available.
However, I'll keep looking and let you know if I find anything.

Rainbow~

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Clarification of Question by paul098-ga on 12 Apr 2006 22:52 PDT

Hey, thanks.

-- Put the tracks you want to rename into a new playlist named "tmp"
tell application "iTunes"
	set myPlaylist to some playlist whose name is "tmp"
	set tracklist to every track of myPlaylist
	
	repeat with eachtrack in tracklist
		set tname to name of eachtrack
		set aname to artist of eachtrack
		set the name of eachtrack to aname & " : " & tname
	end repeat
	
end tell

That seems like the answer.  I just don't know how to use it.  I'm
kind of an idiot.  "I'm talking to a 3 year old"-style instructions
would be real useful.

Thanks.

In iTunes, create a new playlist with the songs you want to rename.
Call the new playlist "tmp". To create a playlist, press the + button
at the bottom left of your iTunes screen. Type tmp and press return.
Go to your Library and drag the songs you want to rename onto the tmp
playlist.

Go to Applications/AppleScript and launch the Script Editor program.

Paste the applescript posted above  into the top portion of the script
editor window (under the buttons that say Record and Run).

Click the Run key in the script editor window.

Ah.  Thank you.  I don't know how to run applescripts in windows . . .
maybe it's possible.