i personally like my mp3 files named a particular way. it drives me nuts if they aren't named this way. i've also got them wonderfully organized in my filesystem, but that's another story.
what i have here is a script that i drag a folder full of mp3's on to (it's on my desktop right now), and it will rename all of the files to my liking.
the format is: ## - <Artist> - <Song Name>.mp3 (where ## is a two digit track number).
so here it is... i haven't modified it in a bit, so it could probably be optomized, improved... but it's currently working, and i have other things to do, so it'll stay as is for now. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use MP3::Info;

my $folder = $ARGV[0];
if ( $folder eq "" ) {
    print "You suck\n"; # or any other kind error message!
    exit;
}

opendir( DIR, $folder );
my @files = map { $folder . "\\" . $_ } readdir( DIR );
closedir( DIR );

open FILE, ">", "debug.txt";

foreach ( @files ) {

    my $mp3 = new MP3::Info( $_ ) or next;

    my $new_name =
        ( $mp3->tracknum ne "" ? sprintf( "%02d", $mp3->tracknum ) . "
+ - " : "" )
        . $mp3->artist . " - "
        . $mp3->title . ".mp3";

    $new_name =~ s/[\/:?]//g; # take out illegal characters

    $new_name = $folder . "\\" . $new_name;

    print $new_name, "\n";
    print FILE "$_ -> $new_name\n";

    rename $_, $new_name;

}

close FILE;

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