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Easily and consistently rename entire TV seasons
Posted in Miscellaneous on Thursday, 10th May 2007 (19 Comments »)
Chris pointed me to a “File renaming script“. If you’re someone like me, then you probably have entire seasons of TV episodes on your HTPC. Often these episodes are correctly categorised in a format similar to “TV Show/Season X”. However, the individual file names of each episode are usually inconsistent, full of silly tags and lacking the episode title. This makes finding TV episodes overwhelming and confusing. Certainly more difficult than it should have to be.
The program available on this page is designed to intelligently rename tv series’s video files on a PC. You provide the program with a folder full of video files that all belong to the same TV series, and it goes off and searches the web for the episode listings and renames all the files so they have a consistent format (i.e. “SeriesName 1×01 - Episode title”) without any of the usual filename cruft (”…DVD-Screener.AC3.[htdv].XviD.lol…” etc).
If you’ve always been seeking an easy method to automatically rename your TV episodes in to a consistent format, than this is your answer. It’s available as a Windows executable or a platform independent Perl script.