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Normalizing MIDI File Names

A practical, reliable workflow for taming chaotic MIDI libraries

Mechanical‑organ MIDI collections are notoriously unruly. Decades of ad‑hoc editing, inconsistent naming conventions, mixed encodings, and missing metadata make it nearly impossible to search, archive, or reuse these files in a predictable way. This book documents a complete, battle‑tested workflow for transforming a messy folder of MIDI files into a clean, deterministic, human‑verified library with consistent filenames and correct internal metadata.