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MediaFileManager

An application that simplifies tedious and numerous media file naming operations (i.e. renaming, episode numbering, etc).

MediaFileManager

Media File Manager is a UWP-packaged WPF application for easily naming media files that need a specific naming paradigm (see this 50 second video) .

Workflow Status Installation Options
Development Development na
Main Main n/a
Prerelease Release (sideload) AppInstaller (sideload)
Microsoft Store Release (Microsoft Store) Microsoft Store

This repository also serves as a real-world example using GitHub Actions to build and distribute a WPF application to the Microsoft Store and MSIX AppInstaller via Azure Storage.

Video File Operations

Stage 1 - Choose a root folder for the TV Show / Series

Stage 1

Stage 2 - Select the Season, then the Episodes to rename

  1. Select a Season(s) to load the episodes.
  2. Select the Episodes to be renamed (keyboard shortcuts supported).
  3. Select a portion of the filename that will be replaced.
  4. Enter the replacement text
  5. Click the Rename button to start the operation

Here is a GIF of step 4’s smooth auto-populate operation:

SelectionText

Here’s a screenshot of all the steps:

Stage 2

Result

All the selected episodes have been renamed as long as there was text that matched the selected matching text in that file name.

Result

AudioBook File Operations

Stage 1 - Opening the author folder

Similar to video files, you can choose a folder to open. In the case of an audio book, that is usually the Author.

open author folder

Stage 2 - Setting Tags

Next, you select the sub-folder that contains the book’s files and do the tag setting.

  1. Select the folder containing the book’s files
  2. Select all the files for that book
  3. Type in a the Album Name (book’s title) and Artist Name (book’s author).
  4. Select the checkboxes to set what mp3 tag data you want to set
  5. Click the Update Tags button to save the information to the selected files.

audio book file tag operations