Reliable program to rename tv shows

adbp1 · 27 May 2018 at 12:03

I was using "the renamer" to rename my tv shows and movies and it was doing a fine job on win7 but now ive upgraded to win 10 a few days ago the renamer has stopped working, is there any program that does a decent job?

thanks
Ali

Semple · 27 May 2018 at 12:10

Have you downloaded the latest version? I don't believe i've had any problems running it on win10.

Unfortunately i don't think you'll find another utility that's as good as.

adbp1 · 27 May 2018 at 12:38

I have installed lastest version, did a quick google and quite a few others are having same issue with no workaround

Oxide™ · 30 May 2018 at 12:46

I use the free picture viewer/manager XNView which has a batch rename function to rename my series (associate it to view video files)

Example:
Season 1 files of a series are in a folder (\Breaking Bad\s1 - 12eps) but all the episodes are named differently
Use the batch renamer and sort/drag the files in episodic order
Use string " Breaking Bad S01E## " to rename them all the same with episode numbers

adbp1 · 30 May 2018 at 15:54

Ive started using filebot which does a pretty decent job of renaming them.

Semple · 30 May 2018 at 16:07

Oxide™ said:
I use the free picture viewer/manager XNView which has a batch rename function to rename my series (associate it to view video files)

Example:
Season 1 files of a series are in a folder (\Breaking Bad\s1 - 12eps) but all the episodes are named differently
Use the batch renamer and sort/drag the files in episodic order
Use string " Breaking Bad S01E## " to rename them all the same with episode numbers

Does that pull episode naming though?

I've used Bulk Rename Utility (or something like that) which is very customisable for different strings, but can't pull in episode names.

hyperseven · 30 May 2018 at 16:15

Mediarenamer, is old but still works.

Mind you scrapers have improved significantly. Plex usually picks everything up.

PiKe · 30 May 2018 at 16:21

Filebot works fine for me.

Oxide™ · 31 May 2018 at 10:50

Semple said:
Does that pull episode naming though?

I've used Bulk Rename Utility (or something like that) which is very customisable for different strings, but can't pull in episode names.

If you mean like auto renaming similar to gracenote for mp3 then no it's all manual with the assistance of hashes for inputting the episode numbers

GWillow · 1 Jun 2018 at 21:39

I've used something called Name My TV Series Windows for a couple of series renames, seems to work OK.

Buffalo2102 · 3 Jun 2018 at 13:55

+1 for Filebot

Antihero · 4 Jun 2018 at 08:25

+2 for Filebot

Really easy to setup and works great.

Salty22 · 5 Jun 2018 at 09:19

Filebot. Aweome bit of software

Kanpai · 6 Jun 2018 at 11:00

+3 for Filebot

Pocah · 7 Jun 2018 at 08:37

I use something called Bulk Rename Utility to do exactly what you are talking about, with Win 10. It's old but extremely powerful.

zeegy · 29 Jun 2018 at 13:32

adbp1 said:
I was using "the renamer" to rename my tv shows and movies and it was doing a fine job on win7 but now ive upgraded to win 10 a few days ago the renamer has stopped working, is there any program that does a decent job?

thanks
Ali

Works fine in windows 10, thats not the issue. the lookup site has changed its api and it doesn't work, select the option at the right to change the lookup to imdb, and then it will work. I had the same issue.

Nikumba · 4 Jul 2018 at 08:42

TheRenamer will only work with older versions of Windows 10, as it uses an OCX to look at the video file to get the metadata and Window 10 Build 1803 i think breaks this, only way round it is to not upgrade to 1803, or run a VM with win7 on it which is my plan

jellybeard999 · 9 Jul 2018 at 07:28

I used Media Scout last I had to do this