Digital homes have incorporated lots of multimedia elements through your appliances, whether through televisions, media players, streaming radios, etc. If to this we add the ability to store our content in repositories, the result is a large multimedia catalog that may not always be as accessible as desired by lack of time to name and classify it.
To solve the problem, at least in part, there is the application FileBot, which allows the renaming of video and music files and it has specific tools for both, such as downloading covers or subtitles.
Description and functions
Currently, there are many multimedia players capable of retrieve online information from a media file based on its name or metadata. That is why a correct naming of the files can give us added value when it comes to enjoying a good movie or song.
FileBot is a multiplatform tool that allows you to automatically name a file. Its interface is really simple and it is very intuitive, with useful functions that allow you to drag and drop elements (drag and drop).
Its minimalism is not at odds with its power, as this application it is capable of renaming thousands of files in a few seconds, thanks to access to online databases such as TheTVDB, AniDB or TVmaze. Its internal logic works really well and it is capable of a fantastic detection of series chapters that we have in our team. In addition, it supports language preferences in titles and episodes, which are adjusted with the available subtitles thanks to its capable localization system.
In the case of movies, FileBot accesses the TheMovieDB website, where they have a large amount of information about the seventh art. This, complemented by the OpenSubtitles subtitles allows us to enjoy movies with real billboard, also in VOS. Subtitle support is available in various formats, all of them very popular, as they are srt, ass o under.
As you can see, FileBot can be your favorite tool in managing your music catalog or video library.
Searching for subtitles
To be able to rename a set of files and that its name can be recognized by our favorite player giving us additional information about the content we are seeing, just we will have to drag the files to the area Original Files and then press the button Match. When we do, we will see a drop-down that allows us to select the source in which to search for the necessary data and thus fill in the file name correctly:
In case the search engine FileBot Find Multiple Possible Candidates for the same file, it will show us a selection window where we can choose from which source we want to obtain the data. If none of these options satisfy us, it also allows us to manually enter the name we want.
The results are obvious and we leave you a good proof of this, where the program has been able to ignore punctuation marks and various separators to provide a clear and identifying name to the files. The program does not disappoint at all.
FileBot installation
As we already indicated at the beginning of the news, FileBot is a cross-platform program and is available on Linux for the Ubuntu distribution, through a Debian package. To install it, we must select that package from its web page that suits our system (32 or 64 bits) and install it.