Media Renamer Pro: rename movies and TV from metadata with preview and undo (dev here, mod approved)

[bkettering 0]

Hi all. I'm the solo developer of Media Renamer Pro, and GrimReaper okayed this thread before I posted it.

 

The short version: it renames movies, TV episodes, music, audiobooks, photos and game ROMs using the metadata inside the files plus optional online lookups, then shows you every single rename before anything moves. You can edit any row, conflicts are caught up front, and the whole batch undoes.

 

Why it might matter to an Emby library:

 

It works directly on mounted SMB/NAS shares, which is where my own library lives and where I kept getting burned.

Renaming is two-phase through temp names, so chains and swaps (A to B while B is waiting to become C) don't eat files.

There's an {original} token in every naming template, so you can add clean titles and episode numbers without throwing away release group or quality tags.

Optional subtitle carrying: rename a movie and its .srt/.ass/.sup/etc. follow it, keeping .en.forced style language tags. Off by default, under Settings then Exclusions.

 

What it deliberately does NOT touch, and why:

 

.nfo files. A media server can prefer a local .nfo over its online lookup, so a stale one carried along can quietly preserve a wrong match. Better to let Emby rebuild it.

Artwork (poster, fanart, banner). Those are found by exact filename, so renaming them tends to break things rather than fix them.

 

Honest limits:

 

It runs on a Mac, iPhone or iPad, not on the server itself. If your Emby box is Linux or Windows, you'd use it from a Mac or iPad that can see the share.

No trial. The App Store only does trials for subscriptions and I didn't want to turn this into one.

If you only have a couple hundred files, a script or FileBot may do everything you need.

 

AI disclosure: I used Claude and Codex heavily to help write the code and tests. I make the decisions, test on my own library and do the support myself. Cloud AI photo descriptions are optional and off unless you add your own key.

 

$4.99 one time, universal across Mac, iPhone and iPad. No account, no subscription, no telemetry.

 

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761764615

Website: https://bkettering74.github.io/media-renamer-pro/

 

I'd really like to hear where it gets Emby naming wrong. Those edge cases are exactly what I want to fix next.