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vRenamer is an easy to use mass renamer with a lot of options. It's able to insert, remove, and replace strings, extract audio and images metadata, write audio metadata, change length, numbrering, undo/redo, and much more. Tested in Win and Linux.
Easy to start
With vRenamer you can start renaming files right away. You don't need to figure out complex patterns to just perform something like this:
To achieve this is as simple as doing the following:
Maybe you want something a little more elaborated. What about this?
Well, no worries. It's pretty straightforward:
Here is the whole screen.
I want you to notice some things:
- The separator, at the right, sets the global separation between fields. You can also change them individually at the end of each field.
- The extension box, at the right, let you change the file extension.
- The filter field is set to “-- image”, so only picture files will be displayed.
- You can see that the recursive check box is selected. It means that you can rename all files under the current folder and subfolders at once.
HINT: As you can see, the list is not in the right date order. You can fix this with only one step. In the menu above, go to Sorting – Sort by picture date – Normal order. You'll get this:
Explore the different sorting options. You can also reorder manually. Just drag and drop the files you want to change or use the arrows above.
Text manipulation
Manipulating existing file names is one of the most challenging tasks in mass renamers, as you usually need to use regular expressions, which use to be obscure to users. So let's say we have this:
As you can see, we only need a portion of the file name (s##), and dump the rest. Well, only one field and we've got it:
The split field works as a scissor. You cut the filename into pieces, by the string you indicate in the text box (the dot in this case), and use the section 2 only.
We can go further. Say we need the files this way:
This time, we need portions 4 and 2. Surely, you've already figured this out:
Now we need from section 2 up to the end
Again, easy and simple:
Find out what else you can do with the differents filename options, and with insert/remove panel as well.
You'll see how easy it is.
How to expand the filename with some given text?
For example, when you have a folder of a debian distro of a specific version, but unfortunately the files within that folder have only the processor architecture as name, like:
While I wanted to have the files like this:
In the current (but unstable) program I use now, I just have to do the regex:
to select the text elements of the filenames.
And use this regex as replacement:
That's the kind of thing I try to achieve with vRenamer, but it somehow it doesn't want to include the extension of the file into the regex.
You can include the extension by previously selecting the option "Rename whole name", located in the combo button at the top right of the program. It's the little arrow near the Preview button.
Anyway, you don't need regular expressions to do that in vRenamer. Just combine these actions in the main panel:
Text: debian-7.2.0
File name: Nothing here
Text: from_SF_Mirror
And that´s it.