Seeking Batch File-Rename Software

Factual Questions
1

I’m looking for a program (for running in Windows XP) to do batch-renames of files, with the capabilities:

  1. Ability to filter on the (original) file name (e.g. to change the names of files that still have the “IMG*.JPG” names assigned by the digital camera, but leave ones that have been given descriptive names alone).

  2. Ability to construct file names from metadata (e.g. date-and-time tags on images, author or title on MP3s, etc).

2

Can’t help you with the others, but The Godfather is the best thing I’ve seen to rename .mp3 files. Bit of a learning curve though.

3

To get you started …

http://www.1-4a.com/rename/

http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=1

4

Rename Master is the best program I’ve found.

5

Checkout A.F.5 Rename. I downloaded it from Download.com and it was free and did exactly what I wanted.

Bob

6

A couple of weeks ago, I tried a number of different utilities to batch rename files. The one I found best was called ReNamer, from here:
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/