What's new in version 4

Use the tag <MediaType> do get the media type group name. Advanced Renamer groups files into 5 categories. Use this tag to extract this value. The media type is determined by the file extension and is not based on the actual content. Possible valures are: image, audio, video, document, and other

Use the "Now" option in the Timestamp method to quickly set the timestamp to the current date and time. This is faster than setting the same value with the absolute date and time option.

For the first time, Advanced Renamer gets support for reading metadata from font files. The supported file types are .ttf and .otf.

If the name of a meta data value contain the words tdate or time, it can be parsed and used as a regular timestamp value, by adding a second parameter for the format, like yyyy-mm-dd_hh_nn_ss. You can even adjust the timestamp value with the adjustment parameter added in version 4.04.

If you want to add time values values based on metadata to a filename, but the time value is correct, you can now adjust the value as it is inserted into the filename. A common example, is to add or subtract one or more hours from the time value. This can be done by adding an offset as a parameters, like this: <Img Hour:+2> tag.

This feature is supported for most date and time tags.

See the user guide for more information about adjusting date and time based output values.

Change the font size of script editors used in Script and List method. The font size also applies to JS console window.

In addition to the <GPS State> tag, you can now also use <GPS State Short>. Not all countries have states and not all states have short names, so the short tag version makes most sense in the US.

When locating the city where an image was taken, the program will use a webservice to locate the nearest city to the coordinates of the image. It uses a database with every city with a population of more than 1000 people. If cities of a 1000 people are too small, the limit can be changed to a larger value in the settings window on the Media Files tab.

When using the <Inc Alpha> tag, you can now use multiple digits. Add multiple digits to your starting value to get a longer value. For example <Inc Alpha:AAA> will start at AAA and increment to AAB, AAC, and so on.

For Replace method you have long been able to use replace characters like \1 and \2 to match groups in the search string. This regular expressions feature is now also available in the List Replace method.

If you have a batch with a large variety of files, where you want some methods to apply to some files and other methods to apply to others, you can now add a condition to each method. The condition can be used to include or exclude certain items in the list based on file name, extension, or path. This feature can be accessed through the {if} button next to the Apply To drop down.

Note, the following methods don't support conditions: List, Script, and Timestamp.

To make room for more configuration options, the New Case method has been redesigned with a new more compact layout. At the same time, an option to change case based on position in the filename has been added. For example, it can be used to change the first five characters to uppercase.

The Trim method has always been very simple. It could remove certain characters from the front and end of a filename. New options have been added to configure if the trim should be applied to the front, end, or both.

When changing the extension of a file, the program will warn you before starting the batch. This is a great way to avoid the risk of changing the extension by mistake. If you know what you are doing and you change extensions often, you can now bypass this warning message box.