Okay, so I'm anal about the way my music files are named on my hard drive. I like to have my music files named in a specific format, so after downloading a ton of music, I have a lot of renaming to do.

I thought to myself, why not once again use perl to your advantage. Here's what I'm looking for: I download files with all sorts of naming conventions and I'm looking to rename them to this format: 
Music Author - Song of Title

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I started thinking of a regular expression that could do this and then realized all the possible cases to take of. Capitalization, removing certain elements, adding spaces where needbe, etc. I'm not the most experienced programmer when it comes to regular expressions, but from my minimal use, I think this could be done. Any help monks?

What regular expression would I need (or series of regular expressions) to rename a file like below? Or is this too broad of a task, with too many possibilities to do with reg. exps.? 
xecutioners-you_cant_scratch_(skit)
       to
Xecutioners - You Cant Scratch Skit

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In reply to a task for a regular expression expert by emilford

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