Métamorphose is a batch renamer, a program to rename large sets of files and folders quickly and easily.
With its extensive feature set, flexibility and powerful interface, Métamorphose is a profesional's tool. A must-have for those that need to rename many files and/or folders on a regular basis.
In addition to general usage renaming, it is very useful for photo and music collections, webmasters, programmers, legal and clerical, etc.
Main Features :
- Preview every item to be renamed before comiting changes.
- Add any number of operations in any order (v.2 only)
- Recursive renamer : load all files in directory and in subdirectories.
- Undo changes in case of mistakes.
- Regular expression support throughout.
- Rename music and image files by their metadata information.
- Full unicode support means any character from any language can be used.
- Use of all allowed characters under Windows and OSX, all except ':' in Linux.
Preview :
Compatible operating systems :
Video Tutorials :
- General and advanced usage - by InterlinkKnight
- Install and main features - by DownloadTube.com
Other Features :
- Preview images (Métamorphose v.2 only)
- Save all program settings to file for later use.
- Renaming operations, which can apply to name and/or extension :
- Prefix
- Suffix
- Replacement, modification, or move by: Character, position, or regular expression.
- Insertion by : Position or every (number) characters.
- Length modifications (padding, truncating, or both).
- Renaming styles : combination of: user text, numbering, audio tags, date, time.
- Modifications : UPPERCASE, lowercase, Capitalize first, Title Style, sWAP cASE, 'DoRkIfY'
- Move by position, text, or regular expression.
- Sequential numbering (enumerating) options :
- Use integers, alphabetical, or roman numerals
- Use padding
- With integers, use any character to any fixed width, or auto pad.
- With alphabetical, auto pad in this format : aaa, aab, aac, ... aba, ... ygr, et cetera
- Control step size, starting number, reset count.
- Set date and time manually or get from system.
- Use supplied defaults or specify your own date and time formats.
- Python and open source (GNU-GPL) means it's quickly, easily, and legally customizeable to fit your needs. Read the License for more details.
- Easily translatable with GNU GETTEXT utilities.
Reviews :
- The Daily Skew - by Damian Hospital
- SoftSea.com
- Linux.com - by Bruce Byfield
- Softpedia
- freetux.net (French)
- Softonic - by Elena Santos (Spanish)
- Windows Forest (Japanese)
- Linux Toy (Chinese)
- Software Cocktail
System Requirements :
Métamorphose v.1
- Minimum screen resolution: 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 recommended)
- Interpreted (source) version: Python 2.5, wxPython 2.8
- Binary (executable) version: NT family of MS Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7)
Métamorphose v.2
- Minimum screen resolution: 1024 x 768
- Interpreted (source) version: v.2 - Python 2.6, wxPython 2.8
- Binary (executable) version: NT family of MS Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7)
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Don't let that stop you from using the web site code, though I doubt you would find anything terribly useful.