Advanced Renamer

Advanced Renamer 4.16.1 - 3. september 2025
* Fix a slow bootup issue introduced in version 4.16

Advanced Renamer 4.16 - 1. september 2025
+ The metadata writer has been reintroduced with a couple of new features
+ Item details panel: Change values by right-clicking when the Exiftool group is selected
+ Script method: Load the contents of a file into a variable using the new readFileText(filename) and readFileLines(filename) functions
+ Script method: A shortcut has been added for the Apply button (Windows: Ctrl + Enter; Mac: Cmd + Enter)
+ Script method: Added item.csv(columnIndex) function for retrieving data previously imported from a CSV file
+ Script method: Copy shortcut didn't work in the Log window
+ Remove method: New configuration option Location, with the options Anywhere, Start, and End, for use with Remove Types: Pattern, Word characters, Non-word characters, Numbers, and Not numbers
* The program will ask for confirmation when loading a method list file containing a Script method
* Export window: When selecting an output format, the correct options did not always appear
* The buttons for changing the menu size are now bigger and easier to see
* Fixed an issue with Exiftool where metadata wasn't retrieved for a large list when a single file had bad data
* Fixed an issue with the List Replace method when using a colon in the Key field
* Some issues preventing texts from being translated have been fixed
* The new version number will now be shown when new versions are available
- The tags <File Content> and <File Line> have been deprecated in favor of the script functions readFileText and readFileLines. These tags still work, but will be removed in a future version

Advanced Renamer 4.15 - 12. august 2025
+ Added <Delimiter> tag which will not appear in the beginning or end of filename and will not repeat. Will primarily use the short syntax: <->
+ Support short syntax for default and alternative tag values: <Artist||Performer|Unknown artist> will return the value of Artist if available, otherwise Performer, and if neither is available, it will return "Unknown artist"
+ Added special tag <MetaData:fieldname> to access metadata fields that has the same name as built-in tags
* Email Date field renamed to DateTime
* Script method will show pre script button and log button in bold text if they have values (Windows only)
* The program did not always ask for language when starting for the first time
* Fixed an issue where the program could potentially crash at startup when the Script method was loaded
* Fixed some icons not always shown in the correct resolution on Windows
* At certain DPI scales on Windows batch methods would have too much spacing at the top
* Fixed export to HTML in details with images, when printed to PDF, always had an empty page at the end and no page break after first item
* Script method: JS Log window: Escape key now closes the window
* Script method: The value of the item checkbox is now available in scripting
* Script method: log method now accepts multiple parameters
* Script method: Small performance improvement

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Advanced Renamer 4.14 - 05. august 2025
+ New tag: <Switch:A:B:C> which will alternate between the values A, B, and C for each item in the list
+ Tag modifiers. Added support for modifiers in tags, <Artist:lower> or <Artist:substr:1:10> will return the artist in lower case or the first 10 characters of the artist name
+ Remove method: Added Remove Type: Not numbers
+ Remove method: Added field Except (character exceptions) for use with Remove Types: Word characters, Non-word characters, Numbers, and Not numbers
+ Support reading metadata from .epub e-book files
+ Support reading metadata from email formats .eml and .msg email files
+ Native support for reading metadata from .raf files
+ Item details: Added Copy Table to right click
+ Show thumbnails in item list
+ Settings: Disable replacing unsupported characters from parsing tags
+ Settings: Disable code suggestions for script method
+ New export options: Export to HTML
+ List right click: Copy to clipboard
+ Added a second parameter to <Word:X> tag to specify the number of words to return, like this: <Word:2:3> will return 3 words, starting from word 2
+ New faster tag parser
* Fixed random tag <Rand> in some cases giving the same value over and over
* Script method: Rearranged buttons and moved JS Console button from main toolbar to script method panel, renamed to "Log" showing the number of log lines on the button
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Advanced Renamer 4.13 - 25. june 2025
+ When new filename already exists, the program will now give the option to move or rename the existing target files
+ New export Window: Export to TXT, CSV, and JSON files
* Fixed Timestamp method for use with folders on Windows
+ Will give an error when starting a renaming batch and there are no methods added
* The program is now less likely to crash when analysing corrupted MP4 files
+ Support for reading metadata from .ivf files
+ Support more tags from .wav, .ogg, .webp, and .aiff files
+ Alias metadata fields, Channels -> AudioChannels and SampleRate -> AudioSampleRate added for better compatibility
* Improved reading of metadata from .ogg, .ogv, and .mp3 files
* Show a summary of error codes in the pre batch window
* Changed implementation of Copy batch mode to preserve timestamps and file attributes on file copy

Advanced Renamer 4.12 - 10. june 2025
* Upgraded regular expression engine for use in renaming methods
+ Replace method: Named group substitution is now supported in regular expressions (e.g., (?<name>.*) and ${name})
* Program is now less likely to crash when config file is corrupted
* Fixed an edge case bug in List Replace method
* Fixed large file support in ExifTool integration
* Improved reading XMP metadata from MP4 files
* ExifTool field names sometimes showed up in lists where they were not supported
* Will no longer show error "Extension changed" when new name is blank
* Disc and DiscCount metadata now correctly recognized for MP3 files
* Item details would sometimes show the same fields multiple times
+ Additional metadata fields is now supported for MP4 files: AudioFormat, AudioChannels, AudioSampleType, AudioSampleRate, CompressionID, CompressionName, BitDepth, XResolution, YResolution
* More robust handling of MP4 files with corrupted data
+ Added support for extracting metadata from some older QuickTime .mov files
* Fixed an issue reading GPS metadata from image and video files, when formattet in a certain way
* Improved MKV file metadata support
+ Added support for metadata fields AudioFormat, AudioChannels, and AudioSampleRate for AVI files
* Import from CSV did not remember the last used column index for original filename
* Fixed name collision rule "Append image sub second"
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Advanced Renamer 4.11 - 31. march 2025
* Fixed an issue where the menu bar would have the wrong height when starting the program with menu in super compact mode
+ Script: Re-added the item.GPSExists property
* Fixed move method, when moving in backwards mode and using Move To value longer than filename length
* Fixed not being able to change filename and timestamp in a single batch
* Could not load Norwegian language file

Advanced Renamer 4.10 - 24. march 2025
* Always show all batch modes, but show an error if copy mode is chosen in folder mode
+ When multiple methods of the same type is used, the title will show basic information about the method configuration
* Reorganized the settings window
+ Remove method changed to support several remove types: Position, Pattern, Accents and special marks, Word characters, Non-word characters, Upper case, Lower case, Character list, and Numbers
* Various performance improvements
* Changed how method panels are rendered
* New layout for the timestamp method

Advanced Renamer 4.09 - 12. march 2025
* File sizes formatted in bytes was not displayed correctly for files larger than 2 GB
* Better support for GPS coordinates read from MP4 files
* Improved the programs ability to remember the last used folder in Folder Panel
+ New case: Added Title case option as a new case type
+ New case: Added support for inverting character case when using regular expressions
* New name method: Fixed adding tags with the tag links when the cursor position was at a multi byte character
* Fixed bug where <Day> would show the numeric day -1
* Changing the "Field for image date time operations" in Settings did nothing
* Slight change to layout of method header
+ Setting to show list with stripes
* Fixed timezone issue when changing timestamps on Windows
* Changes to better support different default Windows text sizes
* Fixed an issue where metadata wouldn't be extracted correctly from PDF files
+ New method condition fields: "Path and name" and "New path and name"
+ New method condition matches: "Length shorter than" and "Length longer than"
* Changed format of timestamps in the list to yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss
* The convenience tags <Img DateOriginal>, <Img DateCreate>, <Img TimeOriginal>, and <Img TimeCreate> no longer use ExifTool to retrieve the value

Advanced Renamer 4.08 - 17. january 2025
+ New column: Index showing the item index in the list
* Fixed an issue where the new names wasn't automatically tested when moving items, toggling the checkbox, or sorting columns
* Customize columns window: When removing a column the next column couldn't be removed before the listbox was selected again
* Modified date and time is now displayed correctly when loaded in a different daylight savings time offset than current time on macOS
+ Made Timestamp batch method available for macOS
+ New option for Timestamp method: Metadata field. Set file date to any well formattet timestamp found in the metadata of the file
* Changed format of timestamps in the list to yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss
* Changing file level date and time did not always work well when using multiple Timestamp methods in a single batch
* Added tag <Filesize Text> which will return the file size in a human readable format
* Tag <Filesize> renamed to <Filesize B>. The tag <Filesize> will still work for backwards compatibility
+ Item details window will show file level details in a separate group in the dropdown
+ When importing data from CSV file, the values will be shown on the item details panel
+ Scripting: Added new field to the item object: createdDate, modifiedDate, isAudio, isImage, isVideo, isDocument, mediaDate, mediaType
* Scripting: Improved auto completion when typing
* List method: When using "Populate list" for folders containing a dot, it would truncate the folder name to the last dot when using "Apply to Name"
* <Artist> audio tag will now also recognize the field author as an alias. Tag <Album> will also use the field AlbumTitle if available
* Fixed a bug where the program would not run ExifTool if configured to use it in the saved settings before starting the program
* Adding files to the list would not always use a natural sort order when sorting filenames with numbers
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Advanced Renamer 4.07 - 4. january 2025
* <Audio Artist> will now also return the value of Lead Performer if available
+ Support metadata from JPEG2000 files (.jp2, .jxl, .jpf, .jpx, .jpm, .mj2)
+ Support for more raw image file formats
+ Support metadata from Ogg file format (.ogg, .ogv, .opus)
+ Support metadata from Matroska based files (.mkv, .mka, .webm)
+ Support metadata from MPEG-2 based files (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpv)
+ Added item preview panel for quick preview of images
+ Item details: Filename can now be clicked to open file in default program
+ List replace: Added remove button, and added Clear list button in right click menu
* Fixed an issue where the program might consume more memory than necessary when reading metadata from files
* List replace: Fixed not being able replace the character =
* When renaming folders with a dot in the name, the part after the dot would be added to the folder name twice in the list