Introducing Media Renamer Pro, a Mac app that renames media from the metadata inside the files

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I run Emby at home, around 29TB across movies, TV, audiobooks and music, and I wrote this because my own library was the problem. Posting it here because this forum is where people actually understand why naming matters.

Media Renamer Pro reads what is inside a file instead of parsing the filename. EXIF dates and camera model for photos, embedded tags for video and music, and online lookups for movies, TV, audiobooks and game ROMs. It builds a rename plan, shows you every row before anything moves, lets you edit any of them, and the whole batch undoes.

Two things in it came straight out of breaking my own server.

Renaming is two-phase. A single pass renames A to B while B is still sitting there waiting to become C, and one-at-a-time renaming quietly eats files in chains and swaps. Everything goes through temp names first.

Subtitles follow their video. Rename a movie and the matching .srt goes with it, keeping language and forced tags intact, so pairing does not break. It is off by default, under Settings then Exclusions.

It is 4.99 one time on the Mac App Store, no subscription and no account, and it runs on iPad and iPhone too. Nothing leaves the machine unless you turn on the online title lookups.

Worth saying plainly: if you only have a couple hundred files, a shell script with exiftool does most of this for free and I am glad to help anyone write one. The app earns its keep at thousands of files, or when you want to see and undo what it is about to do.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/media-renamer-pro-batch-file/id6761764615

What I actually want from this thread is edge cases. If you have naming that no tool gets right, I would like to see it.