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Is there a way to monitor folders and rename files automatically?
| Although this wasnt the way the program was designed, it can be made to monitor folders with a couple of steps For this to work, SmartRename must be already running (and ideally minized to the system tray). You can achive this by creating a new startup entry for the program Start by opening the "Startup" folder on the start menu, and making a shortcut to SmartRename in that folder. Then edit the shortcut so that the Target is "C:\Program Files\SmartRename\SmartRename.exe" /startup Secondly, create a scheduled task with the following details... Program to run: "C:\Program Files\SmartRename\SmartRename.exe" "C:\folder_to_watch\" Then set the schedule to run Daily, and in the advanced options choose to repeat the task every 10 (or so) minutes for 24 hours. SmartRename will then run every 10 mins and check for new files in the folder you specified. |
Can you add support for renaming movies?
| Short Answer: Probably not Long Answer: Although on the face of it, it may seem like naming movies and tv shows is the same thing, it's actually drastically different. The main problem would be how to parse the existing filename. They dont generally follow any specific patterns and often dont contain the movie name at all. This leaves you with the task of getting the movie name from an online database. But there is no easy way of doing that, when you have little or nothing to go on. Someone has suggested that you can use the filesize, movie length and frame size as unique values and then use them to query a custom database. Of course you would have to build and populate this database from scratch. A massive undertaking that would require users to submit movie names to be matched with their nameless video files. Apparantly this has been done to some sucess with a subtitle retrieiving program. Unfortunately it's in polish only so i havent been able to find much out about it. But there would actually be very little overlapping code between smartrename and any movie renaming program i could make, so i think i'll leave it up to someone else to take on that task. Besides, naming movies is generally not an issue as it's only 1 or 2 files at a time and you probably know the entire name beforehand. Whereas TV is different because titles are rarely included in the name. |