New package idea - Auto-Rename

[4ndy]

Would it be be possible to have a new package very similar to dedup in operation, which would strip away the date and time stamp from the recorded titles. I am thinking both manual and auto versions would be useful.

The current methodology is brilliant for series, but I am thinking about when archiving films to an external hard drive. If the title already exists the Humax allows me add a duplicate because the date and time stamp is included in the title, making each recording unique (even if recorded on both HDR 1 and HDR 2 in error, because of minor time differences). The stripping would be done before copying.

 

[Black Hole]

Take a look at the sweeper package (click). It already has tokenised parameters for naming new folders, so a small addition could add a "rename" function to the action list.

 

[4ndy]

Belated thanks Black Hole.

I may be a bit thick, but how would that work?

Are you saying this feature would first need to be added to the sweeper package?

 

[Black Hole]

Yes.

(would the mods please rename this topic "New Package Idea - Auto-Rename")

 

[damianiw]

Hi I'm manually renaming all my movies at the moment thinking it would be useful to have a tool to do this, I've not looked into sweeper yet - - it's on my next to do after I tidy filenames of what I already have filed correctly