I am not sure about the rest of you, but I like to have my collection of Mp3's all in the same format (which makes sorting much easier). By this I mean having all mp3's named 'artist - name.mp3'. Here is some code to rename a directory of Mp3's into that format.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Enter the <dir> where the mp3's are found: ";
chomp ($dir = <stdin>);

chdir($dir) or die "Canot change $dir :$!\n";
opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "Cannot open $dir:$!\n"; 
@songs = readdir(DIR); 
closedir(DIR);
@songs=grep(/(.mp3)|(.MP3)|(.mP3)|(.Mp3)/,@songs);

foreach(@songs)
{
    if($_ =~ m/^(.*)\s*-\s*(.*).mp3/i)
    {
        my $end = $2;
        my $start = $1;
        $start =~ s/\s*$//;    
        s/{|}//g for ($start, $end);
        rename $_,"$start - $end.mp3";
        print "$start - $end.mp3\n";

    }
}

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