The Advanced Renamer is a batch file renaming utility for Windows to help you rename many files or folders at once. The tool is free, of course, and can be of great help. Imagine coming back from your two-week vacation and downloading all your pictures from your camera to your computer. When you look at those files, you will see that they all have cryptic names (e.g., IMG0468934.jpg) that don’t make much sense. This is where the Advanced Renamer steps in to save the day.
Details about Advanced Renamer
There are many methods available in the Advanced Renamer to change file or folder names. And to add to the complexity of this tool, these methods can be combined. But this is nothing to worry about. In the list view, you will see the original Filename and the New Filename as it will look after applying all methods. Clicking on Start batch will apply the changes. What if you still missed an issue and the filenames don’t look good? No problem. You can revert (Undo) all changes.
Applications and More
The homepage of the Advanced Renamer provides some ideas on how to use this tool:
Image files
This mass file renamer is a great utility for organizing digital pictures for both professionals and beginners. The thumbnail mode lets you display thumbnails directly in the file list, giving you maximum control of the renaming process. With this program, you can rename all your photos in a snap.
GPS data
If your image files contain GPS data, you can add the city’s name and the country where the picture was taken. Coordinates are used to look up city, country, and state names from a database containing more than 100,000 cities around the globe.
Music files
MP3 and other music files often have messed-up names and contain weird characters. With Advanced Renamer, you can change the names of your favorite music files to more proper names using the built-in ID3 functions.
Video files
Ever wanted to add the codec or the resolution of a video to the filename? With the video tags, you can add various information about video and audio content to the names.
TV shows
Add episode title or airdate to video files containing TV Shows after importing show information from the tvmaze.com website.
Features & Methods
Selected features
- Preview new names in real-time
- Tag-based renaming
- Image renaming with EXIF support
- Rename with MP3/ID3 information
- Use Regular expressions and Wildcards
- Generate new file names from JavaScript
- Display thumbnails of images
- Rename with video tags
- Use GPS information from image files
- Use imported TV Show data when renaming
- Unicode and UTF8 support
- Supports for both files and folders
- Undo previous batch
- Several renaming methods
- Use multiple methods at once
- Batch modes: Rename, copy, move
- Set file timestamps and file attributes
Renaming methods
- New name with Tags
- Change case of filename
- Remove / Delete part of filename
- Remove pattern from filename
- Replace part of filename
- Add / Insert text into filename
- Move part of filename
- New names based on a list of names
- Change file attributes
- Change file timestamp
- Trim filenames
- Renumbering
- Swap
- Custom batch script
