Rename My TV Series v2

The mac version reports the app is damaged and needs to be moved to the Trash.

Version 2.0.0

Mike Skultety

Hi Hans. I’m having trouble with the new Windows 32 bit version (I’m on Windows 7 x64 Service pack 1). It installs fine, all install options left as default. When it launches a window opens and says “SQLite Initial database created successfully). That window closes after a few seconds, and there are 2 grouped icons on the taskbar, but the app doesn’t bring up a working GUI, only the small windows as shown in this screenshot – https://imgur.com/a/TZv3Muu .I’ve tried a few compatibility settings (I’m signed on as administrator) and reinstalled, but no luck yet. Do you have any suggestions? For what it’s worth, the older version worked fine. Thank you.

Tony

I have found a fix for the above problem – it appears the program is launching minimised. I right clicked the right hand side box as shown in the screenshot above and selected ‘maximise’ and it works. It appears there are some sizing shenanigans present as resizing it is difficult.

Tony

I’ve downloaded the Windows version yesterday and it works well so far. The only thing is, that it offers me only English titles, although there are also German titles available at TVDB. I have already changed the default language to German. No other languages are downloadable except of English.

Thanks,

Martin

Martin

UPDATE:

New builds available for Windows, MacOS and Linux, addressing some language issues.
Switching back and forth between language should work properly now. Please note that not all shows are available or complete in all languages. If this happens, Rename My TV Series will switch to English, most of the time automatically. I did notice that some TV shows have rather poor translations, with a weird sorting order for DVD. So your mileage may vary.

You can now even mix languages in the Selected Episodes list – for those working with mixed shows.

Some additional things have been added, like tracking the database structure version (for the language issues I had to change a few things in the database).
In the future I may create a more elegant way to handle this. Right now, if the database structure is old, all data will be dropped and a new database will be created.

Additionally, the similar named files will no longer be renamed if the related media file failed to rename. This will be indicated in the log file as well.

When toggling languages:
– When you were searching for a show, the search will be started again in the selected language. If the search fails, it will revert to English.
– When selecting a show from the history dropdown, only that show will be attempted to download. If this fails, it will revert to English as well.

Pending issue: Signing the application for MacOS.
I’ve followed all the rules by Apple, but for some reason it refuses to work with FFprobe. I’ve reached out to other developers, but so far no clear fix for this issue.

hans

UPDATE:

Signing issue for MacOS has been resolved – the application is now signed officially, FFprobe and notifications work as they should!

hans

Hi,

So I haven’t used this in a while and didn’t know there was an entirely new one out. I just tried renaming a series with sequential episode count, and the old one was giving an error so I downloaded this, but it doesn’t have the option for sequential episode naming. Any chance you’d be adding that?

Pokewhat

UPDATE (2.0.1):

Minor bug fixes and some cosmetic improvements (mostly for macOS dark theme).

hans

For users of Arch, I created a PKGBUILD for easy installation. You find it here https://github.com/zynexiz/RenameMyTVSeries.
If you are a KaOS user, it’s in the KCP repos, install from Octopi or with kcp -i renamemytvseries.

Michael

Hi Hans,

sorry for raining on the parade but I’m experiencing pretty severe issues with this 2.01 version I just discovered recently, I was using version 1.8-ish for a while.

As I write this, RmTS as been renaming a season of Reign (2013) for over 40 minutes, the program title bar showing ”not responding” most of the time.

The 2 blue boxes above episodes list show: ”Renaming in progress” and ”Renaming files 12/16”

When it behaved liked this just before, I had to kill the process but it nuked the files it had already renamed (2 of, at this point) to zombie files (playing error ”this file does not exist”).

I had to go in safe mode to delete s01e01 and s01e02, otherwise they were in use by ”system”, even after a reboot.

I wish I could send you a log file or something you cloud look at and see what’s going on…

mfu

UPDATE (2.0.2):

– Added parameter for %NY which allows to use the show title as formatted by TheTVDB (which means a year may or may not be included in the name),
– Implemented Database upgrade mechanism,
– Improved language support

Additionally (thanks Michael!) for KaOS and Arch (Linux) users; a package has been made available for easier installation.

hans

Hi again,

About the episodes merging feature, I noticed the original title remains. If possible it would be preferable to get end result like: ”Serie Name  s01e01e02  Episode 1-Episode 2”, as opposed to ”Serie Name  s01e01e02  Episode 1”.

Also 2 very little fix:

1) In the right section (Selected Files), when I mouse over the Sort button, the little caption is the same as if I mouse over Add Dir(s): ”add directory to…”

2) In settings, top right section Generic Application Settings, there’s a typo (resoltutions)

Last, I could not retrieve my deposit on Flaterr, but managed to have you named as recipient, just want to make sure you got my gift.

Thanks again for everything,

J-L, aka MfU

MfU

Windows 10 and Trend Micro both try any stop me from installing. If I bypass the warnings the installation says it’s installing 2.01

Dave

Hi guys, thanks for the new v2.  I just tried it and I found an issue.  I see a previous message that talks about date/year.  I am not sure if this is the same issue but here I go:

The series is called Goldbergs.  When I search, I see there are 2 series with that string.  The series I am interested in is called ‘The Goldbergs (2013)’

I select that series name and it downloads the proper listings.  When I click on an episode and rename it, it leaves off (2013) which makes it the *other* series.

V1 example after renaming:  The Goldbergs (2013) – 06×08 – The Living Room A 100 Percent True Story

V2 example after renaming: The Goldbergs – 06×08 – The Living Room A 100 Percent True Story

Thanks for everything so far!

Mark

I am finding the search a little fuzzy.  Stuff that worked in V1 is not working the same in V2.

Example:  paste this into the search box  “8 Out of 10 cats”

It will find 2 TV Series containing that string.  immediately click search again and it only finds 1.

I actually found that was a difficult series to find under V2, even pasting the TVDB name into the box did not work.

Under V1 it was an easy search.

ps: I posted something yesterday and it did not show up on this website.

Are the posts filtered?

Mark

Hi Hans,

I have (again!) a couple of feature request for you about RmTS, both about its ”starting section”: TV Shows.

1) When using the previously retrieved show feature, I get a screen-full of partial shows listing from ”A” to ”G”.(I get about 4 pages of history in there)

If I need to get much deeper down, say, to ”The Walking Dead” or ”Vikings”, the only way to achieve this (that I’m aware of) is to click-hold the tiny down arrow down below, which unfortunately scrolls rather slowly, 1 line at a time. It would greatly speed-up the process if we could also/rather use the mouse scroll wheel or keyboard directional arrows/page down/page end.

2) When getting more than 1 result searching a tv show, it would be consistent to be able to just double click on the proper result to have the 2nd section (Episodes) populated.

You are already doing it in at the next step: when we double click an episode, it populates to the 3rd section (Selected Episodes).

Thanks for your software(s) and happy safe holidays,

MfU

MfU

Very nice application. I love it!
It also goes well with my app in my workflow!

Great showcase for Lazarus. 

Marius Dalacu

Hey HANS

Really enjoying the new program.

It does however seem to be struggling with some special characters (found that “/” cause issues) which causes the rename process to simply fail. (Windows version)

I think you got around these in previous versions (1.8.4)

As an example I’m renaming an anime series called “Bloom Into You” and almost each episode has a “/” in the title. In the older versions of the program it seems to remove the “/” in favour of a space

Carl Robinson

Hello Hans,

So far your application is the best I’ve used for renaming TV series. And I’ve used a lot of them. Your effort is appreciated. Your older versions were fantastic too.

I have found a episode merging bug in the Windows version. Workaround in my description below.

Bug:

When you right click on two selected episodes to merge them, the selection deselects itself and the “Merge 2 Episodes” popup is not available. The popup that is visible states “Merge 2 Episodes – You need to select 2 episodes”

Workaround:

Select the two desired episodes and press the menu key on the keyboard to bring up the “Merge 2 Episodes” popup. Now you can click on the popup.

For those who don’t know what the menu key looks like or where it is located on the keyboard (note: some keyboards don’t have this key); look between the Alt & Ctrl keys on the right hand side of the space bar.

For those whose keyboards don’t have the menu key; Shift + F10 or Ctrl + Shift + F10 will do the trick too.

For a picture of the menu key look here: Wikipedia – Menu Key

Peter

Hello Hans,

I’ve tested RenameMyTVSeries 2.0.2 on linux – good work! thank you very much!

I also have some ideas for new features in future – let me know what you think about it:

– a quick search in episodes list

–
more file formats: if a file has an additional audio track, it would be
great to get the episode title additionally for the second audio track
in the appropriate language and to save the language id to the track if
set:

Bob the Builder – 20×02 – Strandgut und Treibgut (Flotsam and Jetsom) [720p AC3-2ch de en].mkv

Alexander

Hi Hans,

Renaming Issue.

When two or more series have the same title but different broadcasting years; e.g. Genius (2009) & Genius (2017), your previous versions always added the year to the filename so that our media players or media software can scrape the correct info for each episode of series with identical titles.

For example:

Genius (2017) S01.E01 – Einstein ~ Chapter One.mp4

and

Genius (2009) S01.E01 – Catherine Tate.mp4

The latest version of your software does not add the year to the filename, causing media players and media software to scrape the wrong information for a series.

It does however display the year next to the title in the TV Shows list in your software but doesn’t carry it over into the file naming process.

Workaround

Open Settings and add the year in the Filename format textbox for the specific renaming session of a particular series. Remember to delete it again when you’re finished.

Peter

Hi, looking forward to using the program but after installation and running the program I get a “SQL3Connection : Database is locked”  “Press OK to ignore and risk data corruption.”  “Press Abort to kill the program.” popup window.  No matter which choice I make, the program does not open.  I am using Win7 Pro 32bit Service pack1.  Any suggestions?  Thanks for your time, dan…

dan

Hi Hans,

After some more tests with your software I’ve got some more suggestions:

–
Loading many files takes a long time to load and meanwhile the program
is blocked. It looks like frozen. I guess you read all meta information
from these files when loading. You could add a loading screen or
something like that to show the progress until all files are added. Much
better is to list all added filenames directly and start a background
thread for reading meta information.

– Currently the rename
button only works if the number of selected episodes is equal to the
number of selected files. It would be great to add an additional
possibility to rename files:If you select some files or
episodes in the lists and these selected entries have episodes or files
allocated, the button rename should allow to only rename these selected
entries from the list. This allows to rename files of a TV show with
many files step by step.
– Currently it is
possible to reorder files or episodes by drag and drop. Maybe it is good
to have buttons up/down for each list to move and reorder selected
entries?

– Please make an option to select a global directory for log files in the settings so that it will not ask after each renaming.

What do you think?

Thank you very much!

Best regards

Alexander

Dear Alexander!

I’ve sent a note before but, yet I want to ask again:

1- does your software support movies too? And if not do you suggest any similar program for movies too which I have same problems with my movie banks.

2- and also another similar question about my music archive which has way more messed up data’s! More than my t v series and I’m sorting albums, songs, singers and groups by categories, genres and even I brought up my own system of dividing! With (change Icon) software to personalize every category and folder and after, that I start’ed to correct every song and folder one by one!.

Although I’ve use’d software’s like “Tag Scanner” but yet they’re not simple and practical as your program and more than that its not working mass-producing!

It takes much more time to move forward step by step and consider how long it takes to correct my 2 TB mp3 music archive.

So I would be glad and much more if you guide me and help me to correct and categorize my movies and songs like the way I’ve done my T V series with your software.

You have no idea how much you made me happy when I used your software for first time, and I was just like crazy people looking at monitor and keep saying ” man, is this for real, … I mean that easy and for FREE…..!?.

Thanks man, and I’m looking forward for other genius works of you.

Rimartic

I’m so, so, sorry

I’ve called you “Alexander!” in my last note.

Again please accept my apologize

Rimartic

Hi Dear “Hans” (This time I’m glad I said it right) 

Thx for your reply and attention and sorry for my not so good English writing.

I have to say:

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A – As a user I believe its important you (as a software designer)  know  more and more about exact needs of software users to help you for better upgrades and developing new one’s.

B – Your winner card in this software is ease of operation in general usage. (Open it, write the TV series name, get the result) that’s it!

C -beside easing the process of renaming TV series and episodes so fast and quite simple, your software made the outcome of episodes clear from all other useless information’s which most other apps and programs force you to have them.!

D- The best part for me is “Preferences” which enables me to choose and correct the output in different types and forms

for instance: I usually decide to write all my TV series name like below;

(name of Serial  – S00 E00-Video format-Video resolution-Genre)

and even some of those parts doesn’t exist in “format string” or special characters, but in “filename” box, it’s editable so i as a user can write other parts and apply them to my current setting.! 

– And last but not least! I have some Questions too and I would be glad if you answer them.

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1- when I’m adding my series parts to “files” box, this message appears: (Error; Cannot find FFProbe

please
reinstall My TV Series or FFProbe)! For approving every file, I’ve to
click “OK”one by one and then it accepts them.

At last the “Access Violation Box” appears and as you actually know it
says (Press OK to ignore and risk data corruption. Or Press cancel to
kill the program)

What is that for and what should I do to get rid of it? I mean why it happens?

2-
Although, there is this great and useful “format String” item which
makes it easy and editable to personalize file name writing but I don’t
know How some items doesn’t work? I mean for example I know arranging codes will
make the output form for instance; I wrote; (%N – S%S2
E%E2-%T-%VR), and the output appeared as; (Travelers – S01 E01-Pilot-    )

I mean the parts as (file name, Episode – Season number – Episode number –
Episode name) are obvious but codes like “%VR” don’t show the exact video resolution.

As my
serial episodes have their own video resolutions and it seems the program doesn’t
find out what it is and therefor even I’ve put “%VR” in my filename path hopping in output name there be the resolution too, but yet there isn’t.

But, when I write a specific resolution instead of “%VR” in “filename box” it would be OK and it will add to all chosen video files as I requested.

But I have to change it for different resolutions or other new ones.

3- Why there isn’t “R-Click” function in (Episode and File) part? I mean don’t you think there can be some functions which can be managed with “R-Click” as same as you enabled it in (Aired episodes box).

For instance in (Files and Episodes) “shift+Cursor” or
“select all” by holding down and moving left mouse click doesn’t work
either.

4- I saw a “video format type” in the
“Example Filename (based on Current setting)” part which for example
was “.avi” in program’s sample.

But according to my arranged codes
(as i wrote in paragraph number 2) the output video filename didn’t show any “video
format” at the end of filename Which my original file format was (HDTV).

 I mean is the software able to find out video file format by itself? And if not what is the best way to make the arrangements

Anyway I’m so sorry for this long note and wasting your time and again sorry for my not so well English
i really look forward to seeing more and more programs from you because you showed us beside many opportunist software designers who are just thinking about money and money at all! and ruin their apps and works with ton’s of annoying advertises and other stuffs, There are people like you who put time for real thing and what a great pleasure if makes ton’s of money for you because you deserve it.I hope best of all for you.

Rimartic

Hello

Thank you very much for this amazing software

I’ve been using it on my Windows machine and it works flawlessly

However, on my Mac OS Mojave machine, whenever, I try to rename files, I keep getting a message saying 

“Renaming failed”

Any idea what it could be? I tried it with a lot of files and it keeps failing

Idan

Hello,

I’m quite enjoying how easy your software is to use and how it allows me to match up files by episode title only by matching the episodes scrapped. I’m running into an issue though with a specific show called Face Off (https://www.thetvdb.com/series/face-off). It’s not grabbing all the episodes in the list, specifically between episodes S04E08 and S08E13. What could be the issue for this and is there an easy fix I can do on my end?

Jason

Hi dear Hans

I’m glad talking again with you

Actually I have a question about your software

although I’m enjoying this program indeed, but there was a problem;

1- Why my series names can’t be deleted or removed from “Series title” after Editing.

And related to that, how can I remove episodes from “aired episodes” box?

2- what (Clear show history) button exactly does because when I push it, it doesn’t do anything.

Thanks again and best of luck

rimartic

Dear Hans

Hi

Actually after a while using your wonderful software I felt like I owe you a big thanks again.

Maybe it wouldn’t be such a big deal for some users but you have no idea how much your app can be useful for people like me as an archive r! And my most and primary problem for my archive system was arranging them with regular episodes’ info and files data s

But actually better than the general purpose of your program, it’s the abilities and useful function’s such as:

1- Many special characters which can be chosen according to needs and any sort of “Renaming or correcting Tags data”.

2- Beside that, even user can write, edit and even change original tag data s due to (his, or her) line of arrangement in (format String) part.

3- Capitalizing words in any way we want (separately or all to gather).

Although, some functions doesn’t work quite as they spouse to do with windows because of FFProbe.  but even that didn’t come in the way and just with few steps more it does the same work

and believe me, much more other things which I don’t want to take your time with telling them to you (who’s the God of this program)!

But all I want to say is I’m very thankful for your work and hope to see much more piece of ART’S like this one from you and more than that, I thoroughly wish  other users and people find out how great works are out there (Like this software) which have been gifted FREE to us as the users, with no annoying ad’s.!

Great Job Man, Great Job

It’s not just about designing a multi function app or program, but at least I believe those soft wares and apps which are providing great functions within minimal designs, those are great works

otherwise, many programs with huge lines of writing and program design and vast of options can give lot of multifunction s, but

the Great piece of Art work always comes with less!

Hope to see great works from you again.

rimartic

Hi

Just started using. Wish list item  – simple drag ‘n drop rename like theRenamer does.

Also…

Looked through the messages, did not see this mentioned, but might have missed…

%S and %SZ yield the same result. “02” for season 2  NOT %S = “2” and %SZ = “02”

(Checkbox – Season and Episode numbers at least 2 chars wide… is unchecked).

Michael Noble

RE: My previous post just tried again and the %S and %SZ worked properly???? Don’t lnow what the original problem was, but tried to get them to work properly several times and did not succeed. Perhaps restarting the program fixed the problem – not sure why it did not work then did work. 

Michael Noble

Hi Hans,

since this morning, I can’t open RmTS. As soon as I try, I am getting this error message:

ERROR

Connection failed.

Possible reasons:

– No internet connection

– Firewall blocking internet access.

– The TVDB API is down

Rename my TV Series will now close.

(OK Button)

Hitting OK indeed closes the error message.

My internet connection is OK with everything. I am at a loss to understand what is going on.Any suggestions are more than welcomed.

MfU

Hi dear Friend

Long time no talk!! 

Actually because of your expertise in software area and specially about multimedia, I have some questions which I couldn’t find clear answer for them till now, and I hope you could help and guide me.

*- Because most (actually all!) of Downloadable movies and serials in vast amounts are piracy codecs and formats, and also because of many  codecs, bit rates and worse than that, combination of them, … It’s hard to find better quality and more important, a “measurement” for differences between same formats with different codecs or same codecs with different formats!!!

You know, usually after release of a movie in internet, based on time of releasing, it starts with Cam, HDCam, HDScrn, and, … many other sort of craps!!!

But usually most common codecs to download after a while, would be;

[HDTV – HDRip –  WEB-DL – WEBRip – Blu-ray – BluRip]

It’s almost obvious the difference between formats and which one is better in picture quality, but the problem is other suffix’es and tons! Of formats like  for instance:

 [WEB-DL  MkvCage – WEB-DL  MkvNitro  – WEB-DL  MkvPsa –  …..]

[WEB-DL MP4    WEB-DL Divx ….. “and here we go again for HDTV or Blu-ray……’]

To make it easier for you to help me, I know and its obvious:

Blu-ray > WEB-DL > HDTV (In same Bit rates and resolutions) but the confusing part for me its Combination of formats with lots of codecs and …

So;

1- what are those suffix’es after codecs like (Mkv Cage,  Mkv Nitro, Mkv RMT or MP4Nitro, MP4 RMT and ……) and also what would be the difference of quality between A format like HDTV if it comes with Mkv or MP4 or MPEG4 or…..

Man, I can feel it right now your head is about to explode!

And I’m not asking you to answer all my question’s because I know it will need more than time! To answer all these questions.!

But your best help for me can be guiding me to the best website which describe and explain the “Comparison” in best and complete way.(like all data’s in one complete table)

But for short answer, Can you tell me

1- which one of these formats are better than the other in picture quality;

(HDRip  —  WEBRip  —  HDTV  —  BlurayRip  —  WEB-DL  —  BluRay)

2- What would be the difference between formats like; BluRay-Mkv with Bluray-MP4 or Bluray-Mpeg4 or ….

I think you got what I mean and what is my confusion. All I need to know is sort of grading or table to have all the differences and grades of quality at same time more than going throw the rabbit hole and sink in all these data’s of this area.

Anyway, again sorry for bothering you and asking so many questions

wish you the best of all and although it’s late but (HAPPY NEW YEAR)!

I deeply believe, 2019 would be a great change and huge success in your fortune although life is always tough on Honest and good people but finally everyone has their own personal chance’es and who knows, maybe 2019 is your (personal) game changer.!

Best of all

rimartic

Reccommend you add the following as defaults to the Replace Special Characters since Rename My TV Series will not rename files with “#” and “?” charaters (had multiple instances where this occurred).

Character #      Replacement EMPTY

Character ?      Replacement EMPTY

noblemd

%S%EZ.%T is my filename format : Example: 207.Message.lnABottle.mp4

Season and Episode numbers at least 2 chars wide (leading zero’s if needed) – UNCHECKED

Shetland (2013) most recent episode Shetland.S05E01.720p.mkv and older episodes converts to: 

51.Episode.1 (no season leading zero).

Selected Episodes added list display as (Season 5 example):

1. Episode 1
2. Episode 2
3. Episode 3
4. Episode 4
5. Episode 5
6. Episode 6

Also noticed occuring with other shows with single or double digit first Episodes number –> 1 Episode 1

If “Season and Episode numbers at least 2 chars wide (leading zero’s if needed)” is CHECKED converts to: 0501.Episode.1

Perhaps separate checkbox for Season and Episode leading zeros would fix (as in)

[ ] Season numbers at least 2 chars wide (leading zero’s if needed) 

[ ] Episode numbers at least 2 chars wide (leading zero’s if needed) 

noblemd

Hello

There seems to be a problem with episodes with the character “?” in it. Take for instance The Simpsons episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” (season 6-7, both episodes). Could you please make it so that the character “?” is just removed from the filename since that is not a legal character.

Regards 

Mathias

UPDATE 2.0.4 RELEASED

– Fixed counter bug in list found episodes

– Added Force Refresh button (forces to redownload TheTVDB data)

– Added a splitter allowing you to resize the SelectedEpisodes and SelectedFiles lists

– Added button to reset the splitter position back to the middle

– Added # and ? to default replacement special chars to be replaced with nothing (removed)

– Added in Preferences: when double clicking a row in the “History”, that row will be removed

– Added in Preferences: Optional have no leading zero’s for the “Extras” (season 0)

– Added the option to load episodes right away when selecting a search result as an alternative to double clicking a show (see Preferences)

– Added the option to use both titles when merging 2 episodes (Eg. title 1 – title 2)

– Bug fixed: when more files are shown than episodes listed a would show name dummy for the missing episode in the list

– Renamed and repositioned some buttons in the main window (space needed for the new buttons)

– Work around for selecting from history and clicking search a second time – now shows results (removed year from edit field)

– Resolved issue with minimum number of characters for Season and Episode (for example with shows that have a year number instead of a season number)

– Fixed: For TV shows that miss a First Aired date, an attempt will be made to retrieve it from the first episode’s airdate

– Added AutoLog option with fixed path for log files – logs will be stored in that directory automatically when this option is enabled

– Added an optional default log location

– Added seconds to log filename (for those who are really quick)

hans

Hi Hans

I am a new user and I love your program, it has some great options, I love the move feature as one of them.  I have found one issue I am using release for Windows 2.0.4; the issue is with ” Optional – Rename Similar Files”; I have this checked and it does not pickup and rename .srt files even though it is named exactly the same.  Is their something I am doing wrong?

Regards

David

David

UPDATE 2.0.5

Minor bug fix in 2.0.4 when renaming similar named files.

hans

BUG  ver 2.0.5

CHECKED –  Create log file of renamed files. 

Changed directory to Desktop. (left active for several days)

UNCHECKED

Log file still being created.

Michael

So I am trying out your program on Ubuntu and dropping some shows in that are 1080p and even with ffprobe ticked the renamer only wants to name them 720p.

I ran some 720p shows through and it ranamed them with the resolution as blank.

Whats going on there?

Cheers

Dan

Hans,

This is a beautiful piece of software with a highly polished and user-friendly GUI.

I would however like to request an addition to the available file formating codes.  The “%Y” code returns the Year a given show started which is great for an ongoing series but for series that have ended the addition of a “%YZ” code returning the Year the show ended would allow for formatting the move to folder with the total year range of the seires.

So if we take your standard TV series example a format of “%N (%Y- %YZ)/” for the move to folder would result in “[Base]\Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)\” for the file path.

Jordan

Hi Hans,

Thanks for 2.0.4 including things like setting a default log dir and a force refresh button.

Please, can you add a splitter to resize the Episodes list too? I also still hope for a quick search/filter in the Episodes list.

Thanks!

Alexander

Now that I have this working on Mac (the OS I am most proficient with) I really like how quick and simple it is to just do a rename and move – kudos, and the resolution thing is working as expected now – go Mac OS FTW

Question on TV shows in languages other than English.

Im trying to rename Velvet (2014) which returns nothing with the year in the search and three shows without the year:

Tipping the Velvet (2002)

Velvet (2014)

Velvet Collection (2017)

When I select Velvet (2014) no episodes are shown from theTVdb – as the episodes are only listed in Spanish with all blanks in English on the website so that makes sense, however when I change the language to Spanish the app refreshes, selects Tipping the Velvet (as it is first in the list I guess), and reverts back to English. I have also tried setting the default language to Spanish in settings to no avail. This is on Mac OS btw, I gave up on Ubuntu for now.

Also have you considered offering themoviedb as a source for TV shows as well? 

Dan

Hi there! :)

I’ve just ben checking out your app as a replacement for TheRenamer, which apparently stopped working because of some sort of API thing with theTVDB – I don’t know exactly how this all works – I just learn the bits I need to know :) 

Anyway… I have just one question, if I may: I’ve checked through your nicely-created guide, and so please forgive me if my answer is there, but been missed, but… is there a way (or could there be?) to batch drag and drop, and with one click, have the app read through the source directory, match shows and episodes, and suggest any mis-matches or conflicts?

TheRenamer used to be able to batch-scan a list of files, made up of different shows, and while it wouldn’t suggest anything, it’d rename upon closest match – which was 99% accurate. And if anything was wrong, you could go into the settings and correct the show ID number so that, in future, it’d get the correct show (for example, per your example somewhere above, if there are multiple Doctor Who series, then it tends to pull the first/oldest one, unless you change it in the settings).

So, it’s pretty much a one-click process, with the resulting files automatically being moved (as yours does) to a destination folder, inside which each folder/file gets slotted in with the appropriate show.

I hope I’m making sense. :)

I just thought I’d ask, because otherwise, it’s a lot of work to rename a bunch of shows and episodes, one show at a time, etc., matching up episodes, etc.

I must say – it’s a very smart interface, BTW – I’m just hoping there’s more a a one-click-batch thing that I’ve not yet seen in it. :)

Thanks so much! :)

Ryan

Hi Hans,

Could you (also) support the long pattern when merging two episodes please?

https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files/TV_shows#Multi-Episodes

The short ones look confusing:

1x01x02

The long one should look like this:

1×01-1×02

which is much more clear.

Thanks!

Best regards

Alexander

Hi 

I have been using the software for a year or 2 and Love it. Just installed 2.0.5 and like the changes.

But just wanted to know if you were going to make the TV show drop down box scrolling? Because I have more than 40 shows that I work with.

Thanks Doug

Doug

Right now when I have a series that has multiple episodes per video file, I import in the episode names and then have to select each 2 shows starting from the top and right click to merge them.  Would it be possible to add a feature so that all the shows can be selected, right click to a menu and there I can pick to merge 2 shows together and the system will work from the top down merge every set of two?

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin

The Linux version displays “WARNING: TGtk2WidgetSet.InvalidateRect refused invalidating during paint message: TfmRMTV” on launch  Any advice on how to clean this up?  Thanks!

/andre

andre

I’m very happy I found this site and application, thank you! But I cannot figure out how to use it for the life of me! It is INSANE how difficult it is. Please post a tutorial video on YouTube or something, I’m running this on Windows 10 -thanks!!!

igobythisname

i use windows 10 x64 update 1809 . 2019

i run app from admin when i click on tv series . app cant show episode and hang and close error.

i kill program from task manager , close process tree and run again but again error when clicking on name tv series

now i removed ver . 2 and again install ver. 1 

please chech this error  and fixed and update program

thanks

babak

Hi,

Excellent job! 

I was using FileBot even though I don’t like it very much (and it’s expensive price for a year…). This software is my new friend for organising my library.

Thank you very much!

Cheers

cam

Good morning Hans,

I wanted to share my early experience here. First I’m having an issue on macOS 10.14.4, sometimes after a search (while choosing from the results) I get the macOS spinning wheel until I kill the app.

I also got an error sent to the macOS notifications after moving files from one network folder to an other network folder using the “move to folder” option from the settings. Error was weird since the files have been renamed and moved correctly. Maybe an option to choose move or copy could be useful. 

Maybe Having the possibility to modify the name by right click, double click or two simple clicks would be nice especially with merged episodes.

Other than that it’s great and powerful software, I really do love it! 

cam

Hi Hans,

I added a TV show with the only 4 episodes I have from a DVD and renamed it. I got 1×1 up to 1×4 but I’d prefer 1×01 up to 1×04. There is the option to fill leading zeros but I’d like few seasons not having a leading zero. Could you split this setting to fill zeros for season and episodes?

Also I’d like to select my favorite banner if there are more available for a TV show. Maybe a click on the banner could open a window with all banners available and let the user chose the one for downloading?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Alexander

Alexander

You have scaling issues regarding 4k monitors. I forgot what 1080p uses for scaling % on Windows 10, was it 100%? 150%? Not sure, For 3840x2160p (4k) Windows 10 defaults to 300% scaling, but your utility is not taking advantage of it. The developers of VLC were faced with same issue the last few years and finally got around to fixing it so text would be correct scaling and readable. I’m sure I’m not the only using a 4k monitor these days, so you might refer to their forums on how they resolved it but i guess you could figure it out.  

Enclosed is a screencap where the buttons are completely unreadable. Looks like nothing but —— on the screen. I have resized the image to 1920x1080p for your convenience so you can get an idea what I’m talking about. Thanks for this resource.

4k screenshot, incorrect windows scaling.

John Doe

I have been using this program for over a year or so now and have not figured out if its possible to add episode or movie description information yet or if its possible to add episode “Titles” yet. I understand how too change the episode file name or movie file name but not the actual “Title” name in this program.

There is another program that I use to add the “Title” as well as coverart. But if its possible to add or change “Titles” with this program I would like to do so. I would like to show show title and then season # and then episode # like it currently dose but the episode “Title” is also on the file name which I don’t mind but I would like to also just have the “Title” as the words that show up on “VLC Media Player”. When I click on the episode I want to watch the “Episode Title” normally shows but sometimes there is no “Title” or sometimes the “Title” shows as random stuff or sometimes the same episode title repeats on several of the episodes even if there different episodes.

Dawn B

Hi,

  I would like to translate the application into French, is it possible?

Franck

Just wanted to say thanks for this great application.

Paul

Thanks for the amazing software. No more manually renaming tv shows. Added the amazon affiliate link. 1 tiny little problem when the program is full screen it cuts off the right side of the program. Running windows 10.

Lance

Hi!

I tried today this program and is great! Really thanks a lot for your help!

I wanted to ask you two things:

1) I usualli punt [END] in the name of the last episode of the season. It would be possible to do it with this program? If not, can you maybe make an option for that?

2) There is any hope that you will publish the code on github or other open source repository?

Ansem

Hi Hans.

I have an issue for a month with a specific show, I can’t seem to fix.

The Voice : La plus belle voix (2012) in French. The RmTVs listing ends at s08e09, while the tvdb listing, currently at s08e13 goes all the way to s08e16.

Force refresh doesn’t yield the missing episodes, also tried in settings to wipe out the show from cache (” brute” force refresh), to no avail.

Usually, this happens when something’s wrong in the tvdb listing, but this time, I can’t seem to find anything wrong pointing at them.

MfU

UPDATE 2.0.5b FOR WINDOWS

I’ve updated the Windows version, in order to resolve a scaling issue.

hans

Hi. I may have found a bug but couldn’t find the correct forum so I’ll post here. It all seemed off-topic!

tl;dr : The formatting of the apostrophe is wrong way around in the setup screen and changes perfectly good “‘” to “`” (not used in TVDB shows).

Using the TV Renamer V2 (which I love) introduced a little problem to my workflow while sorting TV shows and feel it’s an oversight in the software.

My plan was to rename all my shows so my WDTV Live media streamer can find the shows once it scanned the HDD. I found there was a certain few shows that it couldn’t find. I managed to find the solution.

As TVDB needs exact spelling/punctuation, I found that when I ran my files through the TV Renamer, it had changed the original “‘” to “`” in the conversion process.

Eg: “I’m Alan Partridge” became “I`m Alan Partridge”. This means my WDTV Live couldn’t find the TV show in the TVDB. I had many like this. Mostly was words that end in the same format Eg: “Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters” was changed to Alan Partridge`s Mid Morning Matters”.

Solution: From installing the App, the default setting shouldn’t change ‘ to ` as this will edit a lot of files to a character that isn’t widely used (I couldn’t even find It on my Mac without copy/paste!).

Chris

Hello I am receiving the following error trying to extract the files “C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\RenameMyTVSeries-2.0.5b-Linux64bit.tar.gz: The archive is corrupt”. Can you please upload a copy that can be extracted, thanks.

volt72

Hi,

Is there any chance you can add different scraping options? As TheTVDB.com site has become extremely restrictive. As an (ex) contributor to their site (I used to supply TV series info, episodes, etc.) it is impossible to deal with them. You can’t even alter your own information, like altering uploaded pictures, without contacting them. They won’t reply to alteration requests, & the amount of shows that are becoming out of order is growing, as are the malcontents on the site. One example: the episode listings of the series ‘Ancient Aliens’ is completely incorrect, from season 4 onwards, compared to sites like Trakt & Wikipedia. Yet, the two progammes I use: your renameMyTVSeries & Mediaporatl’s MP-TV Series both use this site exclusively. Yet they refuse to adjust the listings.

I will also be requesting the author of that plugin to allow alternative scraping options.

Thanks for your consideration. I really like your programme (small footprint, & idiot-proof ;-)): it is a great addition for all multimedia users. However, it is fast becoming an obsolete option, for the above reason.

John

Hi there, Nice product and great layout.

Have a question though, when I type in the search box for the show, the characters get duplicated  i.e. cchhaarrcctthheerrss, and this only happens with this program.  If I run it as Administrator, no issues at all.

Running on Linux Mint 19.1 Mate 64 bit.

Any ideas?

Peter

Peter

Hi!

First of all I wanted to thaks for this great app! It works great and I’m loving it!

I would still signal 2 things:

1) Not sure if it’s a bug: When I use, it seems like it has two program open at the same. Here’s a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/0q16qYm.png

2) Feature: It would be possible to sort the episodes by default when you add them?

BlaBla

Hi,

First and foremost, thanks for this amazing software I just discovered!

I’ve been going through my little collection, and noticed that the “%F” format tag is not working on my machine (Windows 10). My full format is as follow: %N – S%SZE%EZ – %T – %F
(I checked the “Enable FFprobe” option in settings)

And if you look on the screenshot: https://file.io/UTH26S
The format shows on the “selected episodes” list, but not on the files themselves (I guess it wasn’t detected properly). Files are MKV by the way.

Here is another screenshot of the metadata of the first episode (sorry it’s in French, but well quite understandable I think, the data speaks for itself ^^): https://file.io/8RgFec

Is it something I did wrong? Or some incompatibility?

Thanks for your help :)

Yoh

Hi,

I really love this app…. makes my life so much easier.

I do have a query…. How do I merge 3 episodes? I recently got a show from my childhood it had 3 episodes per file….

Thank you in advance

Maurice

Kombat1978

Hans,

Thank you for you response. Was wondering that is all.

Keep up the good work….

Kombat1978

do you have a paypal account i can donate to? i don’t have bitcoins or anything but would like to support you for this great software. not as powerful as filebot, but much easier to use and more accurate detection. for my needs (i can’t really automate), this is the clear winner. thank you so much for your work, and i hope you continue to develop this great program!

James

Just noticed a minor item…

When using the arrow key to navigate a long TV Show dropdown list, when reaching the top the list it cycles to the other end of the list, however, when using the mouse on the top arrow the list does not cycle to the other end. Cycling to the end is a very convenient way to get to the end of a very long list. It should cycle the same way using the mouse as it does using the arrow key.

noblemd

Hi Hans. First off thank you for this great piece of software! I have been using it for a few months now and absolutely love and appreciate your hard work! I have found some strange issue within the last couple weeks though. Sometimes, randomly, it will name one of the files (in a list of other files of the same season or just a solo episode) but will change the file type to nothing, leaving it unreadable by windows or any players. I have tried adding the file extension back to the name but that does not seem to work either. I have confirmed that the file works before the rename but will not afterwards. I am running 64bit windows 10 1803 build 17134.765.  This only happens once in a while and seems very random. Thanks again for your help and this fantastic software!

Morbidvizions

The old version of the renamer stopped working a couple days ago giving me errors in the application code. Not sure what happened. 

Tried this new version again (tried it a while back but didn’t like it) and found that I still don’t like it. The UI is way over jumbled with options and can’t do what the old version could. In the original application I can drop a bunch of random tv show episodes then search for them and add them as I go. Now, with this version, I put my episodes in, then I search for the first one and it clears the entire list. Try to add a second one then it freezes. Literally every time. Also, it can’t rename any file that has a special character in it. It just throws and error and freaks out. I don’t like the changes you made. The original version was simpler and better, way more streamlined. You need to go back to that.

Devon

Hi Hans.

I got a request to add my GitHub package for renamemytvseries  to AUR (Arch Linux user repo), so I have added it there to now. I don’t use KaOS anymore (using Arch now), but will keep the repo updated for that distro anyway :)

Michael