Features

Complete File Renamer is a multiple file renaming tool. It makes it easy to keep movie, music, image and other file's names consistent and organized. It comes with lots of renaming options, an integrated file browser, mp3 tag support, instant preview capabilities, and a user friendly one-two-three interface.

List of features

Here is a list of the features you will find in Complete File Renamer.

  • Preview your changes instanly.
  • Color coded and verbose messages.
  • Complete Undo / Redo capabilities.
  • A friendly graphical user interface.
  • An integrated file browser.
  • Includes cmdren.exe (Command Line File Renamer 1.0), a command line file renaming utility.
  • Rename MP3 file with song information
    • Supports ID3v1 1.0, 1.1
    • Supports ID3v2 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
    • Rename using common media file name formats.
    • Free style renaming using mp3 tags.
    • Show mp3 tags in preview list columns.
  • Change extension. Change extension case.
  • Insert/Delete spaces. Convert characters.
  • Change filename case.
  • Replace text.
  • Insert text.
  • Delete text.
  • Add automatic numbers. Fix existing numbers

You can read the details of these features below.

Instant Preview

Whenever you change a renaming option Complete File Renamer shows the new file name automatically. The old file name and the new file name are shown side by side.

preview

Color Coded Messages

Whenever you do something on a file a text message shows the status message. Color codes are used to give visual clues to file renaming operations.

colors

Undo / Redo

Every actual renaming operation is recorded so that you can Undo the changes with a simple button click.

undo redo

User Interface

We have improved the user interface of Complete File Renamer. Functional elements are grouped together. It is easy to use, and fast.

UI

File Browser

File selectin is done using the integrated file browser. The file browser displays system file icons and is keyboard friendly. You can add single files, multiple files, or all the files in a folder and its subfolders with a button click.

browser

Command Line File Renamer 1.0 (cmdren.exe)

Complete File Renamer includes cmdren.exe, a command line file renamer. You can use this utility tool to automate your work.

With cmdren.exe you can combine multipe commands and apply to large groups of files at once. For example:

cmdren.exe *.* -case word -delete curly -space from uscore period

Changes filename case to word casing (capital initials), deletes text inbetween burly braces, and converts underscores and periods to space characters, for each file in the current folder.

Please see our help pages for details.

cmdren exe

Mp3 Renaming

Complete File Renamer can rename your files using MP3 song information. It supports Id3v1 (1.0 1.1) and Id3v2 (2.2, 2.3, 2.4) tags. Mp3 Tags are displayed next to the file names. You can rename your songs free style as you like using the mp3 tags or you can select one of the common mp3 file name formats.

mp3 tags

File Extension

  • Change to another extension.
  • Change extension case to UPPER CASE, lower case, Word Case, Sentence case, tOGGLE cASE, RaNDom CAse.
exten-sion

Case

  • Change filename case to UPPER CASE, lower case, Word Case, Sentence case, tOGGLE cASE, RaNDom CAse.
  • Keep short English words in lower case as "a", "an", "the", "and", "or"...
  • Keep acronym in their correct case.
  • Roman numeral aware.
case

Space

  • Convert underscore '_', period '.', or the annoying '% 20' to space.
  • Convert space to underscore '_' or period '.' .
  • Separate combined CamelCaseWords. 'MyNewMusicFile.mp3' will become 'My New Music File.mp3'.
  • Remove extra spaces from start, end, or all.
space

Replace

  • Replace text. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, last, or all occurrences.
  • Case sensitive / insensitive searches.
replace

Insert

  • Insert text at the beginning or end.
  • Insert text at a given column number.
  • Insert text after or before finding a text. Case sensitive / insensitive searches.
insert

Delete

  • Delete text between ( ), [ ] or { }
  • Delete extra spaces from start, end, or all
  • Delete given number of characters from beginning or end
  • Delete given number of characters starting at given column number
  • Delete given number of character after or before finding some text. Case sensitive / insensitive searches.
delete

Automatic Numbering

Change digit length of existing numbers in filenames.

start with get or get
xxx01.jpg xxx1.jpg xxx001.jpg
yyy00002.jpg yyy2.jpg yyy002.jpg ...
zzz3.jpg zzz3.jpg zzz003.jpg

Add automatic numbers to filenames.

start with get or get
x.mp3 001.mp3 001 - x.mp3
yy.mp3 002.mp3 002 - yy.mp3 ...
zzz.mp3 003.mp3 003 - zzz.mp3

auto number

Mp3 Tags

  • Common media file name formats using mp3 song information
  • Free form file renaming using mp3 tags
mp3 tags