Métamorphose is a batch renamer, a program to rename large sets of files and folders quickly and easily.
With its extensive feature set, flexibility and powerful interface, Métamorphose is a professionals tool. A must-have for those that need to rename many files and/or folders on a regular basis.
In addition to general usage renaming, it is very useful for photo and music collections, webmasters, programmers, legal and clerical, etc.
Key Features
- Preview every item to be renamed before committing changes.
- Add any number of operations in any order.
- Recursive renamer: load all files in directory and in subdirectories.
- Undo changes in case of mistakes.
- Regular expression support throughout.
- Rename music and image files by their metadata information.
- Full Unicode support means any character from any language can be used.
- Use of all allowed characters under Windows and OSX, all except ‘:’ in Linux.
- Preview images.
- Save all program settings to file for later use.
- Renaming operations, which can apply to name and/or extension:
- Prefix
- Suffix
- Replacement, modification, or move by: Character, position, or regular expression.
- Insertion by : Position or every (number) characters.
- Length modifications (padding, truncating, or both).
- Renaming styles : combination of: user text, numbering, audio tags, date, time.
- Modifications : UPPERCASE, lowercase, Capitalize first, Title Style, sWAP cASE, ‘DoRkIfY’
- Move by position, text, or regular expression.
- Sequential numbering (enumerating) options:
- Use integers, alphabetical, or Roman numerals.
- Use padding:
- With integers, use any character to any fixed width, or auto pad.
- With alphabetical, auto pad in this format : aaa, aab, aac, … aba, … ygr, et cetera
- Control step size, starting number, reset count.
- Set date and time manually or get from system.
- Use supplied defaults or specify your own date and time formats.
- Easily translatable with GNU GETTEXT utilities.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Website: file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ianaré Sévi
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Métamorphose is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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