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Plex is happy to ignore "The" in file/folder names when sorting, the issue is Windows is not, and having 500 folders that all start with "The" just isnt very useful at all trying to do anything outside of Plex.
EDIT: It occurs to me youre asking an additional question, any basic renaming program will work for that, find/replace "1x" with "S01E". I use this. https://www.advancedrenamer.com
I haven't used Filebot in years but "Advanced Renamer" can rename entire shows in a couple of clicks. You can add episode title, season number, airing date and a lot of other stuff to the names.
It takes a bit of time to fully understand the first time you use it but you can make very customizable presets.
I use Advanced Renamer for mass renaming files. The tool can be a bit on the complex side though since it offers so many options in renaming, but it can do what you're looking for.
I've been using Advanced Renamer for the past two years and it has honestly changed my life. It makes most, if not all, of the file renaming software I've ever used feel like a joke. Also, you have the ability to get really granular if needed, but also has the easy & basic functionality of everyday tasks.
> Bulk Rename Utility
I've been using https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ for about 6 months. I think it's both easier and more flexible than BRU after evaluating both...for how I work.
I don't see MS replacing either soon.
are the 2 programs i use for plex mass renaming (i know filebot is the popular choice, but dont feel like paying for one). the 2 programs above are free and work nicely for big jobs and small ones too.
If you can comment back in like 8 hours when I am home I can link the software I have been using to mass rename files.
It allows things like replacing characters, removing them, etc. so you could just replace all the . with spaces or really what ever you need.
Edit: NVM found it quick. https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
using windows search is great, it will allow you to look for something like (Japan) then delete all of them or move them somewhere else then keep doing that till you have what you want left.
after that i love Advanced Renamer https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
it can go in and you can have it make multiple passes on all the roms to remove [h1] or (usa) or whatever to just change it into the game name.
TheRenamer as well as Advanced Renamer
Use Advanced Renamer to get it in <episode name> - S#E# format
Then drag them into TheRenamer to have the episode titles automagically added.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, use a tool that's already written and made specifically for the purpose:
Next time give Advanced Renamer a try. Just put in a few operations and it will easily batch large numbers of files. I have four defaults saved for movies and seven saved for TV that automatically pop up when I load it, then readjust per show.
This program helps modify multiple files by allowing you to mass add or remove things.
https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
I use MetaX to rename files and subtitles. It also adds metadata to things. I tried filebot, but I prefer MetaX after having filebot rename things incorrectly. I go through my videos and fix them if Sonarr and Radarr do not rename it correctly based on the criteria set.
I use TinyMediaManager. It's changed the way I scrape. I use TMM to scrape data, choose artwork, rename, etc. Then, I set all my kodi content areas to scrape Local Information only.
Also, you can use apps that auto rename, like AutoRenamer.
Are you on windows? Here's a tutorial without using any programs or use Advanced Renamer, this isn't a program I've used before but should work just fine
Seems to have worked!
I used Advanced Renamer to rename all the filenames in bulk.
Thanks for explaining, had no idea that Plex was THAT sensitive about filenames
Yes, Advanced Renamer has this functionality and it is well described in the documentation.
I had to do similar things with photos in the past due to my old horrible tendency to nest folders for years, events, people, etc instead of just tagging files and having some high level folders.
Check out this software, you can bulk edit attributes of files and folders and it might help the process of renaming them so you don't have to do it one at a time. https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
- Drag & Dropzones Firefox - Text markieren und dann per Drag&Drop Suchfelder ausführen.
- Add to Search Bar Firefox - Macht jede beliebige Suchfunktion in jeder beliebigen Seite in der Suchleiste (Suchbox) verfügbar. Gut in Kombination mit Drag & Dropzones.
- Advanced Renamer Windows - Große Mengen an Dateien gleichzeitig umbenennen. Sehr toll für Musik- und Seriensammlungen.
You can paste the list of links into JDownloader and it will download them all, you can then use something like AdvancedRenamer to change the file names to the PDF titles.
You want a bulk renamer utility which will let you name them after the path.
I don't know one which does exactly that, but that's what you need to look for, Check out this one maybe? https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
Edit, yes it looks like this will work. See the option to use the 'new name method' and the DirName tag.
https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/method_newname
You might have to rename your directories temporarily.
Make sure you keep the originals and only work on copies until you get it right!
http://www.advancedrenamer.com is one for Windows, if you want a GUI and free.
It can do a lot, not all of it obvious. See https://www.advancedrenamer.com/forum_thread?forum_id=1223 which seems to offer clues as to your use case.
Oh the joys of adopting PLEX for the first time. Don't forget that the first step to being awesome at something is sorta sucking at it.
The others seem to have your primary issues sorted, so I'll help you out with the stuff you didn't ask.
Odds are your filenames are a mess, but renaming every episode of The Office sucks. Check out Advanced File Renamer. It can change names in bulk and pretty intelligently, and is the only way I can keep my movies in line, and make any sense of some older TV show collections.
Some of the episode & movie titles will get pretty fucky if the metadata has some extra bullshit in the "Title" category. You can go into "Properties" and delete it sometimes. Other times you need something like MKVTools to be a bit more forceful. Also good for marrying video and subtitles, or even adding a second audio track if you really want to hate yourself.
you'll want to use some type of program to structure the filenames properly.
if you have them in a close approximation this program will organize nicely: https://www.tvrename.com/
if the file names are not even close, like 123.avi 122.avi etc, you'll need to at least put them in the Showname - S01E23 for the 1st program to recognize them. this works for cleaning up complete messes for prenaming https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
You need Advanced Renamer
https://www.advancedrenamer.com
Then use a renumber function.
It has all the Bulk renamer functions but you dont need to move the files. You can do things like Search all JPGs, drag them into the renamer and rename them without moving them from their folder.
So in your last example. You use windows to search for all MPGs first, rename, then srt, then jpg, then dng. You can rename each without moving them from their directory.
Hopefully that works?
FileMove is what you use for renaming; but as u/unabatedshagie mentioned, you should really use a bulk file rename utility for something like this - it's faster, it's easy to undo, and you can see what the result is going to be before you start...
Aside from the aforementioned Bulk Rename Utility, I personally use Advanced Renamer - both of which offer portable (no install) versions too.
For windows you are out of luck, while windows has the best batch renaming tools than any other OS, none of them are FOSS or OSS.
If you don't mind using such options Advanced Renamer and Bulk Rename Utility are the most complete batch renaming tools today (and both are "free, as in beer"), I personally recommend Avanced Renamer, very powerful and simple to use.
You can also always use powershell for batch renaming, however depending on what you want to do you will need to spend some hours learning it.
Probably someone knows of some obscure FOSS project for batch renaming, but coming from someone who uses batch renaming tools on a daily basis, I'm yet to find anything as complete as the tools I listed.
Your naming scheme is throwing it off. I would suggest you replace those leading zeroes with S/E identifier as a prefix there, "SxxE", so in above example it would look like "S01E01 - Puss gets the boot ", as per TVDB identifier: https://thetvdb.com/series/tom-and-jerry/seasons/dvd/1
Easy to do with some batch-renaming tool (like https://www.advancedrenamer.com) or use FileBot (https://www.filebot.net).
Hmm... I played around with Advanced Renamer for a minute and was able to do the exact opposite of what you wanted (rename the file as the directory name) but couldn't figure out a way to reverse that. Maybe you'll have better luck. Check here for more tags you can use
Someone else answered your question about multiple versions, but I will add that you can filter movies in Plex by ones that have multiple files and will make it easier to split them all by hand. Plex has a pretty good filter/sort feature so your Music shouldn't be a problem.
Advanved Renamer will help you batch large amounts of files to exactly what you need. It's quick and easily customizable to make them exactly how you want.
Use a proper bulk file renamer for this, there's plenty of free ones that'll do just what you ask, and more, in a matter of seconds based on any number of criteria.
- Bulk Rename
- Advanced Renamer (my preference)
The above are just a couple, but it's not worth your time to re-invent the wheel here when it's already been done for you (",)
I've never tested it with metadata, but Advanced Renamer has saved me countless hours.
Advanced Renamer - Free and fast batch rename utility for files and folders
Sadly I can't help with the nested CMD, I experimented to no avail. But if you would like instead, you could rename the ASS files similarly to your MKV's sequential filenames.
A. ACDSee
It could be done easily if you have ACDSee. Highlight all your ASS files, hit F2, then paste the filename template from the MKV.
Example template would be below. Notice the ##.
- [漏勺rip] 創聖のアクエリオン -AQUARION- 第##話 「天翅の記憶」[BDrip X264 AC3 720P]
A freeware (free for personal use) renamer tool I use, Advanced Renamer. It has a portable/Zip counterpart which I use myself.
After its installation or extraction from the Zip, and integration with Explorer, copy your ASS's into a folder. Right-click that folder then choose Add to Advance Renamer context menu. Then use the default Add the files in the folders.
Then Add Method. Or maybe delete first any existing default method provided out-of-the-box. I can't remember.
Pick New Name. Then put in the type box the template below. Notice the <Inc Nr>. So almost the same template from ACDSee, the ## is just replaced with <Inc Nr>.
- [漏勺rip] 創聖のアクエリオン -AQUARION- 第<Inc Nr>話 「天翅の記憶」[BDrip X264 AC3 720P]
Both ACDSee and Advanced Renamer have previews, so you would know if what you want is what you would get.
Or maybe you could ask people from other dedicated subreddits on how to similarly rename using the CMD. So that you could put it at the first part of your BATCH file.
Then you could use the same-filename remuxing methods elsewhere. Good luck friend.
UPDATE:
Just tested now, the freeware FastStone Image Viewer which I also use, has the same renaming ability as ACDSee, same template above.
Many businesses outside of tech run into scaling issues because of this. I've been paid as a "consultant" to clean up and standardize their file structure. Check out https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ next time you encounter something like that! (in no affiliated)
I've found Filebot will occasionally have trouble with some naming conventions so I also use Advanced Renamer (Windows only) that allows much more control of renaming Files.
I use Advanced Renamer tool to modify the file names with the quality/format.
Here is a link to a script that reads the video frame height and width to estimate the video quality and add that to the file name.
Anything worth archiving goes through rule based and scriptable automation. I have the Downloads folder as a messy and temporary temp folder. Anything that doesn't get sorted automatically gets purged after 24 hours.
The tools I primarily rely on are:
- Advanced Renamer
- exiftool
- youtube-dl / ffmpeg
- gallery-dl
- pyinstalive
- Robocopy
- Task Scheduler
Movies and series are usually handled by Plex. Both youtube-dl and gallery-dl rely on archive files to prevent duplicates.
1: I use the software Advanced Renamer for converting someone else's naming scheme to mine.
2: Visit this support article from plex about the proper location and naming for fanart.
I have found Advanced Renamer (ARen) to be a good tool.
You could possibly use the regex option for the replace function to clear the end of the string. This should letters from the end of the filename until it encounters a space or number.
[a-z]+$
You could try something like Advanced Renamer or Bulk Rename Utility. I've used Bulk Rename Utility quite a bit over the years and have heard good things about Advanced Renamer. They should both do what you want once you learn your way around the interface.
If Advanced Renamer won't work, you could also try making a Bash script, which should make this renaming trivial, i.e. for each directory $dir_name in the current folder, enter the directory (using cd) and rename each file $file_name to $dir_name + $file_name.
If you're just trying to rename files, you can use this: https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
It's 'free' for non commercial use but the $20 license is suggested (it's worth it, plus supports the dev).
This is also a good tool: http://www.cdwinder.de/
It's paid but it's very powerful and I don't think there's anything free like it.
There's a Mac version of it, it's linked on the page.
Ever tried Advanced Renamer? It works really well with renaming anime. You just select the folder the anime is in, press Ctrl+Y and write your anime name, start batch and you are done in a few seconds.
First time you use it you will need to select some tags of what you want to show like season & episode number, episode title, etc.
I've used advanced renamer to bulk rename pictures based on the date they were taken (that is stored in the Exif data in the image) so I'm guessing it should be able to help /u/qwerni for most of the part.
Advanced Renamer should do what you're looking for.
Buy a licence to support the dev if it's something you find useful, he's very helpful and it's one of the best utilities like this I've seen.
I use advanced renamer to rename files in bulk. https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
Not gonna help you with the "similar images" thing.... You'll have to do some organizing.
I use Advanced Renamer to clean up filenames on TV shows
I keep all my movies in a single "Movies" folder. Well, two actually, since I have it spread across two drives. Occasionally, I put the release year as part of the name, particularly important now with all these damn reboots. I currently have 1664 movies.
TV shows, pretty standard, folder with the series name, then subfolders for each season, then episodes appropriately named "MyShow-S01E01-Episode name if I have it.mkv" in each season folder.
Have you tried importing it as an image sequence? You might need to re-name your images, but it could work. I've imported image sequences larger than 4,000 frames successfully before.
Not sure if it works for your situation, but it might be more stable than importing thousands of images individually since image sequences are expecting a large volume of images.
Not sure if you searched for this or if you tried it and its not mine.
https://www.advancedrenamer.com/forum_thread?forum_id=5168
Someone seems to be trying to achieve the same thing, check this thread out.
>Advanced Renamer
Batch file renaming utility for Windows.
Free! Has your use-case covered: https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/example_pictures
Anything else, just "shout". Cheers!
I use 'Advanced Renamer' as it does exactly what you are asking and it is free for home use. You can even script it to do custom renaming if the built-in functions don't suit your needs.
My use case for it is when I download datasheets for electronic parts they are named something like x8shh23.pdf and it allows me to rename all files in a folder to the correct PDF title and/or description.
There are advanced renamers that can help you. Each file has to be named in a unique fashion to be in the same folder, obviously.
https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ might be one way. It's freeware too. You may have to put in a little effort sorting out exactly how to rename the files and get the result you want, but if it can be batch renamed, this beast will do it.
another poster suggested a windows program called Advanced Renamer which I am testing right now and seemingly is perfect for my needs, but thank you for your time.
i used this when i was sorting my music: https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
it looks to have some new features now and advertises an ability to move files so it may do the trick. it was quite a thrill to reorganize the names of thousands of tracks in one click. you have to set the code yourself but the files preview and are easy to undo if you fuck it up.
The easiest thing to do, would be to:
Open the files' folder in your home computer;
Sort the files in the folder by the date created;
Highlight the files from the bottom-to-top, and drag into a media player like Foobar;
Save the playlist using Foobar, to an easy-to-find location, such as your desktop;
Copy the playlist file to your Android device, and then choose the playlist with an Android music player like Pulsar.
There's another method to actually copy the files and rename them on your computer (taking only a few minutes), without changing the original files - but that's only useful for when you want the audio to play in a specific order from MP3-CDs or a USB stick.
You'd need to install two small freeware programs onto your computer (assuming it's a Windows PC).
You'd need Amok Playlist Copy. There's a tutorial here on YouTube:
The guy who made the tutorial doesn't understand why some files in his playlist aren't read by the program...
The reason is, that the program doesn't handle special characters in filenames very well. If one of the songs is by Mötorhead for instance, you WOULD have to change the ID3 tag to Motorhead (for example).
Once Amok has copied all your files in order to a new folder, I'd also suggest using Advanced Renamer to rename the files in your new folder of copies songs to rename the new files.
https://www.advancedrenamer.com
So instead of the files having super-long filenames (which may not be read by some players) it can rename the filenames to something like:
01 - Around The World In A Day.mp3 02 - Paisley Park.mp3 03 - Condition Of The Heart.mp3
Etcetera.
I'm sure you'll work it out.
I will look for some other options. How do you think the hotkey function would work? It could not be done natively through Windows... I peeked around on the web for a few minutes you may get lucky with either of these http://fastphototagger.sourceforge.net/fastphototagger.html or https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ But it does not seem likely that you will achieve the ease you are looking for.
Thanks. Agree that quality is the appropriate tag, not sure how to extract that from the metadata though.
I found this utility that might do it. Need to try it out and see https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
I'll check out Filebot as well.
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Filebot is hot garbage compared to Advanced Renamer. It's Windows-only, as far as I know, but it does handle renaming files on network shares. I use it on my laptop to rename media on my PLEX server. Works like a charm and uses regex.
I'm fairly certain I've done this task with either powershell or vbscript but if learning to code isn't your thing there's plenty of file renaming software out there like https://www.advancedrenamer.com/
You could probably do it with something like https://www.advancedrenamer.com - you’d just need something that’ll let you create an arbitrary rule to rename, something like “%a - %b” -> “%a/%b” if that makes sense.
Alternatively, Musicbrainz Picard is an MP3/FLAC tagger which has support for renaming files. It might be able to do folders too, perhaps with a plugin.
Interesting, having owned both the Zoom H4n and Zoom H5 you were able to set the file name as the date/time stamp. very surprised it seems like it's not a feature in the H6. Always hated when someone left their Zoom recorder to ZOOMXXXX instead of date stamp. So many multiple files with the same name.
Just did a little test with https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ (I'm sure there is a Mac equivalent as well) and you can do a batch rename extracting the date/time metadata from the file. which will get you what you want, the only annoying thing is you have to do this on a computer instead of just handing the files over at the end of the day directly from the SD card.
MP3Tag and Advanced Renamer, the first is a tag editor for music files, the second one is a bulk renamer for files, folders and such, great utility sofware!
So remove remix, change the season to 00 (for specials) and renumber +7
For those with Advanced Renamer: https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/method_renumber
in cmd, use the rename command
ren *.extension some_name.extension
They will get renamed into :
some_name.extension some_name(1).extension some_name(2).extension some_name(3).extension some_name(4).extension etc...
If you want more control over the naming scheme, take a look at advanced renamer
To automate it, you can set up a schedule to run it on file create with a pre-made template, using task scheduler.
Yeah. If you're using files directly, you can find a file renamer app to change the name of your roms. If you are using playlists, you can edit them in a text editor to remove the parentheticals. You may need to look into RegEx string replacement, and a good tool to do so is notepad++.