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Easily and consistently rename entire TV seasons
Posted in Miscellaneous on Thursday, 10th May 2007
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.
May 10th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Most useful program _evar_
May 16th, 2007 at 9:28 am
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May 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
It’s an awesome script
May 29th, 2007 at 9:20 am
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May 29th, 2007 at 9:21 am
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May 29th, 2007 at 9:47 am
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May 29th, 2007 at 9:48 am
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May 29th, 2007 at 9:50 am
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May 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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June 2nd, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Cool sounding script. I haven’t tried it yet.
That said, I’ve recently started organising my tv shows and stuff that I record into the hierarchy: Heroes - Season 1/18. Parasite.avi
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Bugger, hit reply before I’d finished. Ah well. Random point of the day.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
You should definitely try it.
P.S. It’s really easy to use.
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June 16th, 2007 at 3:53 am
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June 20th, 2007 at 12:03 am
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July 6th, 2007 at 8:28 am
There’s a windows program that does something similar but renames using the formatting “01×01 - Episode Name.avi”.
Check it out at www.EpNamer.com
July 31st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
I’d just like to say that my tv renamer can also do that format if you want it to.
By default it picks that format if you have a heirarchy of folders like:
/Scrubs/Season 5/01-FirstEp.avi
RobM
July 6th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Hi there,
Found a program that renames too.
http://www.therenamer.com
Works fine for me. real easy, just drag and drop files in.
No Mac support though.