Series Renamer

Status report

seriesrenamer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:24:45 +0000

Development is going a bit slow right now
I have a few more things added in, such as more precise progress reports (when moving files to another hdd), “Look up on IMDB” function and some smaller fixes, is there anything you’d really like to see in the next version? I probably won’t do larger tasks right now, although most useful things I can think of would require a bit more work.

In a longer timespan I would like to integrate

-Automatic extraction from archives and deleting those archives afterwards
-Figure out if there are newer episodes available (aired and/or downloadable)
-Get names for movies from webpages too
-Proper subtitle download support

I’d really like to see those features, but I have no idea if and when I will be able to work on those, but hey, it’s open source, anyone who’s interested is invited to help!

Manual for Series Renamer

seriesrenamer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:56:39 +0000

I’ve wrote a manual for this program, you can find it here.
I hope this answers most questions, let me know if there’s anything missing.

New Version (V.0.9.7) released!

seriesrenamer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:46:22 +0000

This version introduces multithreading, along with a progressbar, so the program is much more responsive now.
Also, it features automatic selection of search results, based on previous selection and preferred language.
Furthermore, there’s some more hotkeys and lots of bugfixes.

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Have fun, and let me know about suggestions, bug reports, comments, et cetera.

V.0.9.7 rather close!

seriesrenamer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:04:08 +0000

Next version will be somewhat of a bugfix and tweaking release.

Biggest change is probably multithreading for all time-consuming processes, making the program much more responsive.
Apart from that, previously selected search results are going to be remembered, and you can also define a preferred language, which allows to preselect a search result if it matches that language.

It’s not that far off, all that is on the list right now are a few more hotkeys and other minor things

V.0.9.6 Finally Released!

seriesrenamer — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:01:28 +0000

After quite a long time, it’s finally here
The code is nearly completely restructured now
The biggest change is probably the possibility to process multiple shows at once, this allows to process files even faster than before.
Also there are many new features, like:

-Set a destination directory where files should be moved to. This can be useful if you want to process files which are located in a download directory, you can have them moved into a Series directory for example.

-A function to find missing episodes. This will check if files are missing, and show an entry in the log file with the missing episode numbers

-Improved showname and movie name recognition. Processing movies should be pretty straightforward and produce good results in most cases.

-Of course all name providers are completely updated to account for changes on their page source.

-Separate settings for case, umlauts, destination, etc. for each single file if you need to fix something on one file only.

-Function to delete sample files automatically.

-Filename length can be limited if you want to use them on a device with limited display capacity. It will just crop the name at the end though.

-Log settings are a bit modified, should be more logical now

-Progress bars on longer operations. Unfortunately not threaded yet, but they can indicate how far the current process is.

-Large speed improvements when opening a folder due to a new Listview component.

Subtitle download functions are disabled for now, as they didn’t make it into this release and I didn’t want to hold it back much longer. I hope they can be re-added in the next release.

Mono support is also dropped for now because of the new Listview Component not supporting it. The differences in the code are a bit too huge to keep supporting both, but for anyone who’s interested, you should be able to download the latest version of the source which doesn’t have that component yet from SVN and compile it, I believe that version worked somewhat stable.

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Have fun, and let me know about bugs, feature suggestions,…

And still there…

seriesrenamer — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:00:50 +0000

The release is taking quite some time, but there’s great progress, and most features are working like they should by now. Also I’m not working alone on this project anymore
The new version will have lots of nifty features that will make it even more comfortable
Also, much of the code has been restructured and is much more organized now, which should make further enhancements easier.

As I’m not working alone on this project anymore, the SVN at http://code.google.com/p/seriesrenamer/ is updated regularly, so if you want to you can grab a copy with a SVN client like TortoiseSVN and build the sources with Visual Studio C# Express, but the official version shouldn’t take that much longer I hope. if you do this, please report any bugs you encounter on the bugtracker on that page.

Most of the things left focus on getting movie recognition and their filename stripping working. Subtitles probably won’t make it in this release though.

Still working

seriesrenamer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:56:57 +0000

Just to let you know, I’m still working on this program, it’s not dead

Next version will finally be able to process multiple series at once, as it recognizes the showname for each file individually.
Also, recognizing process is/will be improved, and it’s now possible to change the settings which influence the generation of the filename for each file separately through the context menu.

Due to the large restructuring required to archieve this, next version might take some more time though, as there are quite a lot of things to fix.

Did you know…?

seriesrenamer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:01:21 +0000

By adding a folder path as argument when running Series Renamer you can have it start in a specific folder. This is useful if you use alternative file managers that allow running custom tools, you can make a button or hotkey to run Series Renamer on the current folder. This makes renaming files even quicker.
You can change the detected season and episode number, and also the showname and the generated filename by double clicking on an entry in the main window.
You can add your own name providers by adding cfg files in the Databases/Titles folder. Same goes for Subtitles, but it’s a bit limited right now.
You can rearrange the columns in the main view by dragging them.
Coloured entries report problems. Yellow means that two or more files have the same target filename. Red means that the file has an invalid target filename.
%S means always two digits on season placeholders (e.g. S01E02), %s means one digit if possible, otherwise two (e.g. S1E02).
You can change the season, episode and destination values for many files at once with the context menu.
You can edit subtitle (.srt for now) timing from the context menu. It is possible to offset all subtitles, or scale them if they play at a wrong speed. You can also apply these operations to subtitles in a time interval.
You can clean up movie names from the context menu (Remove tags)
Pressing enter in the main view will launch the selected video (or corresponding video, if subtitle selected)
If the season/episode numbers get identified incorrectly due to an exotic naming pattern, you can make the program recognize it if you add the pattern to the “Filename identification pattern” list in configuration.
You can replace parts of the destination filename with the “Replace in filenames” option. For example, “\s->.” will replace all spaces with dots.
Series Renamer will delete empty folders, which may have been created by moving videos out of them. It will also delete folders which only contain an nfo file. You can disable this behaviour if you like.

New Version (v.0.9.5) released!

seriesrenamer — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:42:51 +0000

New version once more, this time it features one big addition, it is now possible to treat movies too, but only on a smaller scale, it will remove tags like DIVX etc, replace dots by spaces, adjust the case, yada yada yada…
Since this is just an approach based on filter lists, it won’t produce accurate results all the time, this is why you can adjust the filters yourself and check the suggested filenames before renaming them. To use this feature, mark the desired files, right click, and click “remove tags”

Another thing that has been added is the abilty to disable automatic column resize.

I’m slowly running out of version numbers before hitting 1.0.0

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New Version (v.0.9.4) released!

seriesrenamer — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:17:58 +0000

Finally, a new version

New Features:
- Extract showname from a filename. This is helpful when there are files from different shows in one directory, it tries to guess the showname, and then selects all files that belong to it, so you just have to click on get titles afterwards. This feature is located in the context menu on the files. Also improved the automatic selection of files after entering a title.
- Replace strings in the new filename. This adds a list in the configuration menu which allows you to replace parts of the generated filename, this allows to use dots instead of whitespaces for example

Bugs fixed:
- Shows which were named something like “blabla312.avi” (with season=3, episode=12) were not recognized correctly

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