ALmoviesRenamer Changelog

What's new in ALmoviesRenamer 3.1

May 21, 2012
  • CHG: some corrections in guessing info from file name
  • ADD: executable icon
  • FIX: statistics where not correctly handled

New in ALmoviesRenamer 3.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • CHG: improvements on movies rename process, with a new way for selecting movies information
  • CHG: better movies recognition
  • CHG: new movies attributes, and better representation
  • ADD: the representation of some movie attributes and words separator can now be personalized
  • ADD: enzyme module to get video duration
  • CHG: a lot of other small changes and improvements

New in ALmoviesRenamer 2.1 (May 21, 2012)

  • CHG: improvements on movies loading and on manual title searching
  • ADD: internet connection check during program loading
  • ADD: usage statistics (agreement + settings)
  • CHG: more elements at once, in renaming rules, can now be selected and moved or removed
  • ADD: check for new program version
  • FIX: now also movie part is translated

New in ALmoviesRenamer 2.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • CHG: almost completely new GUI, with a totally new and faster renaming work flow. now there is only one renaming rule, used for all the movies, which can be created in a new, easier way. this rule is also stored on file.
  • CHG: the program is smarter on recognizing movie titles, and it tries to reduce user intervention on defining the names
  • CHG: dropped most of the movie attributes
  • CHG: dropped use of hachoir parser
  • ADD: italian translation

New in ALmoviesRenamer 1.2.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • ADD: a new way to notify finished renaming process: movies will be highlighted in green, red or white based on renaming succes (renaming done without problems, errors on renaming, nothing to rename). a summary panel will also be displayed showing information on errors.
  • CHG: "Rename" button renamed into a better-explaining "Rename checked movies"
  • CHG: unchecked items are now updated when its renaming pattern changes, and are colored in gray, showing they will not be renamed
  • CHG: better info guessing from file name and better title cleaning (utils.guessInfoFromFileName and utils.cleanTitle)

New in ALmoviesRenamer 1.1.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • ADD: a button for cleaning the renaming rule
  • ADD: IMDbPY and Hachoir versions to the log information
  • CHG: now each movie has his own rename rule
  • CHG: generate new movie title only when movie is checked
  • CHG: no more using a new thread to generate new movie title
  • CHG: the "rename" button has been moved at the bottom of the panel
  • CHG: when searching for a title manually, now the search field remembers the text
  • FIX: an error occured when the "runtime" metadata was empty
  • FIX: with some files Hachoir returns a duration containing also a time in milliseconds. now this time is removed
  • FIX: no more exceptions are rised when the generateNewTitle function is called
  • FIX: akas information on windows and linux have different syntax, now is taken into account when getting the akas

New in ALmoviesRenamer 1.0.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • ADD: run times guessing
  • ADD: three new buttons in "rename" tab, useful for checking or unchecking files to rename
  • CHG: the "about" dialog message now uses the "Program" and "Version" info from utils
  • FIX: changed the "duration" metadata separator from ':' to 'h-m-s', because the ':' character is not allowed under Windows
  • FIX: now each movie info dictionary has his own "current index" for aka and runtime
  • FIX: removing of selected movies now works properly

New in ALmoviesRenamer 0.4.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • ADD: the user can now decide whether to rename the file or not, using the appropriate checkbox near the new file name
  • ADD: "disk" property. the disk property is guessed from the file name.
  • ADD: guessing of movie language. the properly "aka" and "language" properties are selected based on this information. the language property is guessed from the file name and from system language.
  • ADD: a new panel is shown when title search in IMDB returns no results. this panel shows a text field where user can search for movie title manually.
  • CHG: file title cleaning before searching into IMDB
  • CHG: exception handler
  • CHG: cleaned video and movie information
  • CHG: using "unicode" now instead of "str" for each string
  • CHG: better organization in Movie class code
  • FIX: when changing a movie property (title, aka, ...) after having defined a renaming rule, the new name now it refreshes properly.
  • FIX: now the "original name" column in tables do not shows no more the file extension

New in ALmoviesRenamer 0.3.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • ADD: language information can be added to new title
  • CHG: completed GUI

New in ALmoviesRenamer 0.2.0 (May 21, 2012)

  • ADD: back button in manual title search
  • CHG: movie title search no more uses keywords. instead file name is cleaned and used in search.
  • CHG: completed movies information request and visualization