The best tool for renaming episodes. Won’t get any simpler than that. Works on Windows, Linux and Mac. FileEpisode matching works perfectly, even if episodes don’t follow proper naming conventions.

The app can also download subtitles and check sfv/md5 files.

This is a phenomenal program. I use to run EpNamer until I was introduced to this. See the features on the site then load it up and I think anyone will be happy once they get it figured out and get their media collection sorted out.

It uses TVDB instead of TV Rage (which seems to be more robust in my experience).

Unfortunately it’s Windows bound at present, and the developement has cooled since late september but it’s so nice that I’ll install VMWare under GNU/Linux just to use this single app.

http://www.epnamer.com

Fezzik simply opens a directory of files in your favourite text editor and makes any changes you specify once you have closed the program. I use it with Textpad, but it works just as well with Notepad++.

Demo at http://fezzikfilerenamer.blogspot.com/

(Self promo alert. I wrote Fezzik, but it’s free)

If you’re running Windows, you will be able to do it with Automise. You’ll even be able to do it as you imaged using an Excel file with your variables as long as the file is saved as a .csv file. You can download Automise here: http://www.automise.com/automise-downloads.aspx

Disclosure: I work for the company that develops Automise. But I am recommending it as a LifeHacker reader as it provides a suitable solution.

1st i use Namefix.pl http://namefix.blogspot.com/ to strip out the . for spaces and the release group, codec information, etc. so for example:

the.wire.s02e03.dvdrip.xvid-ffndvd.avi >
the wire s02e03.avi

2nd then i use Media Renamer http://tinyurl.com/2auz27
This one scans the previously renamed file, and formats it to your liking and adds the episode name too. example

the wire s02e03.avi
The Wire – 2×03 – Hot Shots.avi

Both programs do batch renaming. The reason i run NameFix.pl first is Media Renamer’s parsing isn’t reliable without it. To make the whole process faster i used AutoHotkey to automate it.

http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/

I could do the whole walk through on how it’s done, but they also have a help page which walks you through things here: http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/rm-help/

Just make sure they’re sorted in the order you want and use the simple renumbering to create your new name.

1) I load renamer and copy the names into notepad++.
2) I use notepad++ to edit all the names using a lot of column editing (hold ALT whilst selecting an move the cursor around, you’ll see what I mean. There is also a further option ALT-C for inserting columns of text).
3) Copy the names back from notepad++ to renamer
4) Hit the “rename” button.

Its amazing how much faster it is to do renaming this way than the standard windows way.

Hop this helps
- Lee