Reader Chris wrote in with a question about the best way to batch rename video files. I’m one of those serial offenders who has a whole bunch of anonymous “Track 1″ files in my iTunes library, so I’m a terrible person to ask. So I thought I should throw the question to the Lifehacker AU audience at large!
Here’s the challenge Chris posed:
I downloaded tv shows just as avi files, now i have a lot them on my hard drive in the format ‘californication.104-caph.avi ” or ‘the.wire.s02e03.dvdrip.xvid-ffndvd.avi’ and what I was hoping to do was to rename them so they are in this format. ‘Chuck.s01e05.Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp(ws.pdtv.xvid.caph).avi’
The way I imagine it was to have a excel file with the variables. Like Tv Show name, Season number, Episode Number, title, group, and then extra stuff like ws.pdtv.xvid. Anyway I have tried looking for a program that could help me do this, which would enable me just to copy and paste the episode titles from tvrage and then it would rename them all at once. I was just really looking for a program, or a way which will help me do this.
If you have a suggestion for the best way to solve this one, please leave it in comments.
