Advanced Renamer

Advanced Renamer 4.18.1 - 20. oct 2025
* Scripting: Fixed an issue when the JavaScript code had errors

Advanced Renamer 4.18 - 15. oct 2025
+ Added support for searching commands by name through a new search field
+ Folder panel: Configure list of favorite folders
+ Right click menu on certain UI elements to quickly change UI related settings
* The Insert Tag window and the Tag Pattern window has been merged into one window
* Fixed some issues with email tags: Did not support names containing comma (,). Also fixed issue with the FromEmail tag not working
* Progress bar in batch progress window was too wide for the window
* Updated JavaScript engine to a newer version
* Fixed <RSubstr> tag being off by one when second parameter is a search pattern instead of a numeric value
+ Added row move buttons to list replace method when shown in a separate window
* When loading a method list with more than 500 methods, the program will now show a message and only load the first 500 methods, instead of crashing
+ Properly read framerate from .mkv files and .mp4 files
+ Read audio bitrate from QTFF based file formats, like .mp4, .mov, and .m4a
+ Added two new tag modifiers :multiply and :divide
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Advanced Renamer 4.17 - 26. september 2025
+ List method and List Replace method can be opened in a new window
+ Added search functionality to Script method, List method, and List Replace method, when shown in a separate window
+ Added search to item list in main window
* UI update for recent methods. Is now in a submenu of the load button instead of a dropdown
* Scripting: The values item.newModifiedDate and item.newCreatedDate can now be updated from script
+ Added method app.formatDate(date, format) to scripting method
+ Settings: Added options to always use strict mode in scripts
+ Item details: Added Copy Tag to right click menu
+ New option in list right click: Unmark items with errors. Also updated logic behind remove items with errors
* Fixed an issue where dates of folders could not be changed on Windows
* When the main menu was in super compact mode, the show thumbnails button didn't work
* Multi select support in columns window
* Faster load time for Exiftool at startup

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