There are many features in this program and I’m going to try to explain all of them. This is what the program looks like when you start it up.
Adding files
There are three main ways to add files. The first and most simple is to just drag and drop the files you want. The program supports video files and zip/rar files. If the file is not any of these types it will not be added. You can also add files by opening up the file menu. In the file menu you can either select Add Files or Add Folder as shown below.
When you open the file browser you can select files and they will be added to the program. You can change it so it also opens zip/rar files by changing the file type in the bottom right corner. There is also a folder browser. This will add all the file in the selected folder and its sub-folders. By default it will only add video files, in the setting panel you can change the setting so it will also open zip and rar files. If this setting is on it will take a lot longer for this process to finish. There is a picture of the browser below.
Editing your files
Once you files are added the program will automatically try to create a new name for it based on the options selected. If you change an option it will reconvert the name to adapt to these changes. The Figure below shows this.
The two menus below contain option you can select to make sure the file name is converted correctly. You click on an option to change it. Every time you change an option the program will convert the file name again to reflect this.
As seen above the program will remove what I like to call “Junk Words”. The program has a library of words that it will automatically remove. If there are some words that are not in this library you can add them. Go to the Other Option Menu and select Add Junk words.
A menu will pop-up and in the text box you can type a junk word to add. Please note that the junk word has to be exactly the same as the one you would like to remove. Once you have typed in the word just click add. You can also click the check words in library button to see what words you already added and you can select individual words to remove. The Clear List button will remove ALL the words you have added so proceed with caution. When you close the display all the words you added will be saved to you hard drive, these mean next time you open the TV Show Renamer they will still be there.
In the other options menu there is a Text Converter Selection. This option allows you to convert one word or abbreviation to another. It has the same options as the Junk Remover and the things you add are also saved.
The last option in the other option menu is the ability to add a title to a file name. It add the title right after the season number and episode number. Because of this if you do not have one of the season/episode options selected, a title will not be added. The title will be added to the selected video name. The photos below shows this.
Once you have made all of your changes and you you are happy with the “pending file name” you then click the Save Name button and the filename will be changed on the hard drive.
Move and Coping
In the settings panel you can set locations for files to be copied to. The first one is TV Show Folder, this is probably the most complicated to understand. How it works is that the program will go through the folder you set it to and if one of the subfolders is the same as the file name it will move it to that folder or if it can figure out the season number it will create a subfolder for that season. If the show name is not a folder in the TV Show folder it will not move or copy it. You can set it to have multiple TV Show folders and the program will search them all. This is the default folder files are moved/copied too. So if you click the copy or move button this is what the program will try to do. You can also set five other folders. I have named them to match folders I use but the names are just placeholders. The only way to move or copy files to these locations is to right click the move or copy button and then select where you want the files to go. It will move/copy all the files in the window so if you don’t want it to move/copy it you better delete it from the window.
Other settings
In the Settings you can also change the main panel color and the font color. If you theme in windows is not the same as mine the background could be too dark or something so this gives you the ability to change it. The settings are saved so it stay the same every time you open the program.
Updating
You can also check for updates in the Tools Menu. There are two different updates that could pop-up. The first one is a full update and requires the program to be reinstalled. The second update is just a library update and only certain files are replaced.
If a full update happens it will pop-up asking where to download the installer too. I recommend you just put it on your desktop. Once it is done downloading the program will start the uninstaller. When the installer is done YOU must start the TV Show Renamer.msi installer and then the program will install. Please note that it will download the 32-bit version so if you are running the 64-bit version you must download and install the update manually.
