AutoRenamer

This small tool operates over a list of files, renaming them according to the pattern name-season-episode or name-date :

To use this tool just extract the downloaded zip to any folder. It can be operated in three different ways:

• - Create a shortcut to the exe in the SendTo folder C:\Documents and Settings\[User name]\SendTo. After doing this you can select files in the explorer and use the context menu (send to ...) and send them to autorenamer.
• - Open two explorer windows and drag the files to rename onto autorenamer.exe or onto a shortcut to it.
• - Start autorenamer.exe and drop files from explorer onto the listbox.

As you can see in the above example, when you load some files the tool displays the proposed filenames in the second column. The checkboxes at the left side determine whether the files will be renamed when pressing the "rename" button. Pressing "cancel" closes the application without doing anything. Only recognized files will appear in the list, so if you drop files whose filename can't be handled by the application, no entry will be added.

Configuration

For the tool to function, you have to specify in the config file which titles are to be recognized. The config file is "autorenamer.exe.config" and looks like this:

            
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="RenamerConfig" type="AutoRenamer.ConfigHandler,AutoRenamer"/>
    </configSections>
    <RenamerConfig>
       <keep names="Fringe"/>
       <keep names="Heroes"/>
       <keep names="Merlin,Prison break"/>
       <keep names="The colbert report"/>
       <active extensions="avi,wmv,mpeg,mpg,srt,sub"/>
    </RenamerConfig>
</configuration>

Yellow marked lines represent the allowed title names. You can specify more than one title per line, by delimiting them with a comma.

The green marked line specifies which extensions are automatically marked as active for renaming (their entries are automatically checked). You can always override this defaults by checking or unchecking the corresponding entry.

Error handling

At the moment, this tool is not very communicative about errors. If a file can't be renamed it will be marked in red, otherwise it will be marked in green. If all files can be renamed successfully the application exits, otherwise you have to end it manually.

Download

You can download this tool at the download page.