Question: I have an online subscription to a radio program that allows me to download past episodes. However when they are opened in iTunes the album name is set in the format Apr 01 2008. The problem is that there are thousands of these and I would like to change it to a better format such as 2008 01 Apr or even 2008 Apr 01. Is there any automatic way to change an mp3's metadata - or a program like a Better Finder Rename that can edit this iTunes metadata for the thousands of tracks that I have?

Answer: 
You should check out [Doug's Applescripts for iTunes](http://dougscripts.com/itunes/). He's written a collection of scripts that will do most everything.
I was using Doug's Script (the one that applies sed to track names) with this pattern:

```
s/\([:alpha:]*\)\ \([0-9]\{2\}\).\([0-9]\{2\}\).\([0-9]\{4\}\)/\1 \4-\3-\2/

```

to rename stuff like `Charts 01.10.2013` to `Charts 2013-10-01`.

However if you want to use it for Albums and not for the Title, you have to modify the AppleScript and replace `name` with `album` in the line that contains the `sed` command