TV Show Renamer is a free program that provides quick, intelligent renaming of TV series and movies/media downloaded from the internet and/or torrents.
The programs looks for naming conventions that are typically used in downloadable media, and will give the user a measure of control over what they want and do not want. For example, it will by default remove dots, dashes and underscore, introduce "proper" capitalization, remove year labels, and remove what it terms "extra crap" from the file names. However, if you are interested in, say, keeping underscores or any of the other elements all you have to do is uncheck them from the options.
If the "extra crap" function doesn’t rid your filenames from all unwanted elements in the filename, the program will let you add your own custom "junk words" to a list that it can then use in its operations.
What’s interesting about this program, aside from the original concept behind it, is that it works really well. Having said that, I will also say that the program is still in beta and the functionality can and should be greatly enhanced.
Some notes on this program:
- "Undo" option: once you proceed with the renaming you can undo the results if you don’t like them. Strangely, there is no "preview" function; the program will actually rename the files and then rename them back again if you decide to undo.
- Move to/Copy to: you can designate a folder and move the files or copy them to that folder once you’re done renaming.
- Text converter: will let you define sets of words to always replace. For example , to always replace "DVDRip" to, I don’t know … "DVD quality" or whatever.
- Add junk words: these will be detected and removed. Note that it will match case; for example you will have to add "LiMiTED" rather than "limited" if that’s the way it looks.
- Add title: seems like it would add a description to the title, or something, but didn’t work for me. If you know what it does please let me know.
Wish list (or how this program can be even better)
Allowing to uncheck "remove year" from the conversion options . Although it looks like it was designed to allow for this (see screenshot to the right), it let me uncheck everything except the year removal when I tested it. (Which was actually the only one I was interested in keeping)- "Preview" option, in addition to "undo".
The verdict: a simple yet potentially very useful concept. And works really well at what it does.
This is the kind of program that some people will get extremely excited about, while others will be uncertain why anyone might need this.
If you belong to the former group, you will probably (a) be extremely happy to have found this and, (b) will find it extremely useful.
Version Tested: 2.1 Beta
Compatibility: WinAll; works on 32bit and 64bit OS’s.
Go to the program home page to download the latest version (approx 685K).
you should also check theRenamer.. it uses web sites like imbd to search for extra info like episodes name that are not provided in most internet *ehm* downloads *ehm*.
@Michael: thanks for a great tip. theRenamer looks great.
I too would like to be able to uncheck the “remove year” option, add another option to have just the episode number without the leading zero (809 instead of 0809), and enable drag and drop. The move option crashed the program and it took almost two minutes to start on Windows 7 x32. I have only tried it once now so it may be faster for subsequent starts. The program also would not act on a few of my custom junk words but that may just require me to play around more than I have.
Right now I use a program called better file rename. After defining rules, it allows the creation of desktop droplets. Drag a tv show to a predefined droplet and all of your rename rules are enforced. The droplets can be moved to a folder instead of leaving them on the desktop and files can then be dropped on them. Unfortunately, this is not a freeware program.
TV Show Renamer is relatively new so will most likely improve past any complaints I have so I have to give the author credit for the work he has already put into it.
Scene names make sense and I can’t understand why people need to relabel them.
Same goes for deleting nfo files.
“Scene names” make no sense other being “kewl”…
Just look at some examples and then imagine a library full hundreds of these unreadable things!
01-aj_mclean-teenage_wildlife-tosk.mp3
National.Geographic.Rhino.Rescue.2009.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.avi
alice.part1.hdtv.xvid-chgrp.avi
arw-halwn2-dvdrip-xvid-cd1.avi
fico-howh_by_Fs._in_theGenius.Tv.avi
aaf-tu.s02e08.avi
I have no idea of what the last four files are but for the first two this is an example of how we grown up people (and we that have a system that can understand spaces in filenames) could renamed the files.
National Geographic – Rhino Rescue (2009).avi
01.Aj McLean – Teenage wildlife.mp3
…And .nfo-files is just junk filled with Ascii “art”.
/Rabbit – 1337 m4Zster h4Xxh03 -k3wL l33t!2.-5 w#wc43%2§v
First off I would like to thank you for all the feedback. I am the developer behind this software. I made it for my personal use and then released it. I have released a new version with some new features based of your comments. It is version 2.5 and it would be awesome if you guys could try it out and make recommendations. Thanks
Awesome, i use it for all sorts of files, not movies (i don’t watch those on PC). Thanks!