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New version of Siren rename
What's new in Siren 1.70
1.70 : 2004/03/10
Support of new information extracted from files
Document info and tags: pdf ( information grouped with the office
document ones)
Audio info and tags: mpc (MusePack. Ape1, ape2 and id3v1 tags)
Favorites
You can now keep and access easily to your preferred rename expressions
(except combo)
DOS rename commands file
This ".bat" file will contain the DOS commands that Siren would have
executed
Exif
14 new data extracted, dates in system format ...
Replacement string modifier completed
An optional parameters has been added: search case sensitive
(upper/lower)
For example for the file "AA_aa.txt":
%f("AA","BB",1,2,0)
gives
"BB_BB.txt"
%f("AA","BB",1,2,1)
gives
"BB_aa.txt"
New options:
Display file size in bytes or most appropriate unit (byte, Kb, Mb, Gb)
Empty variable if the associated data is invalid (dates)
Display infotip in the file list
New variable "%sb": size in bytes
%s gives now the size in the most appropriate unit
Many user interface improvements
button to recompute the "future names"
"don't ask again" option during reload confirmation
2 new examples
etc ...
Bugs fixes
Minor modifications
What is Siren?
***Start quote***
Requirements
Windows 98 minimum
(not tested under 95, tested under NT4 until v1.60)
Installation
No installation needed, unzip and run.
Principle
Siren renames in mass files based on the expression you've written.
I advise you to consult the page "presentation"
Features:
Use of expression: every information associated to a file can be used
Name, base name, extension, size, dates et times, dos name, paths ...
Selection number (not depending on the position of the file in the
list)
Numbers in name
Information extracted from files:
Audio: mp3, mpc, ogg, wma, wav
Video: avi, mpg, asf, wmv
Image: tif, jpg, gif, png, pcx, bmp, dib, ico, cur
Exif tags
Karaoke: kar, mid
"Office" document: doc, xls, pot, pps, ppt, mpp, dot
PDF document
Fixed text
System date and time
To each one of these elements, can be applied the following
functionalities
Case modifiers (uppercase/lowercase)
Accented characters to standard ASCII conversion
Substring extractions (fixed and relative)
String replacements and deletions
On the final result some treatments can be applied:
Delete characters
Delete multi characters
Characters replacement
etc ...
Tools will help you to write, keep and reuse expressions (completion,
right click, favorites ...)
Sub-directories recursion
You can work on a complete directory tree
Undo & Redo
Unlimited
"Drop" files and directories
The directory is loaded and the files selected
Image visualization
Even if embedded in a file tag
Creation of DOS batch rename files
Management of the system shortcuts to Siren
Among those, the contextual menu "Send To"
"Basic" functions
All the standard functions like choosing the directory, sort, search,
selection, columns order and appearance are present
Are added to these
Individual renaming (with "F2" like under Explorer)
Automatic selection of displayed columns
Monitor current directory modifications
Call of the shell contextual menu
Set current directory to the Explorer's one
Copy the file list to the clipboard (for Excel, for example)
Delete, "execute" one or more files
Many examples
Two languages: French and English
XP Theme support
No installation required
No writing in the registry
and others that i let to you discover
****End quote***
I had a lot of pdf-files called "psdfh1.pdf, psdfh2.pdf, psdfh3.pdf..."
etc I had DL'ed from somewhere. Now I was finally able to rename them
by their title or subject info. What a relief! Also you can now add
your often used expressions to favourites and give them a memorable
name.
Windows 98 --> (not tested under 95)
Size: ~300 kb.
Homepage: http://www.scarabee-software.net/
What's new in Siren 1.70
1.70 : 2004/03/10
Support of new information extracted from files
Document info and tags: pdf ( information grouped with the office
document ones)
Audio info and tags: mpc (MusePack. Ape1, ape2 and id3v1 tags)
Favorites
You can now keep and access easily to your preferred rename expressions
(except combo)
DOS rename commands file
This ".bat" file will contain the DOS commands that Siren would have
executed
Exif
14 new data extracted, dates in system format ...
Replacement string modifier completed
An optional parameters has been added: search case sensitive
(upper/lower)
For example for the file "AA_aa.txt":
%f("AA","BB",1,2,0)
gives
"BB_BB.txt"
%f("AA","BB",1,2,1)
gives
"BB_aa.txt"
New options:
Display file size in bytes or most appropriate unit (byte, Kb, Mb, Gb)
Empty variable if the associated data is invalid (dates)
Display infotip in the file list
New variable "%sb": size in bytes
%s gives now the size in the most appropriate unit
Many user interface improvements
button to recompute the "future names"
"don't ask again" option during reload confirmation
2 new examples
etc ...
Bugs fixes
Minor modifications
What is Siren?
***Start quote***
Requirements
Windows 98 minimum
(not tested under 95, tested under NT4 until v1.60)
Installation
No installation needed, unzip and run.
Principle
Siren renames in mass files based on the expression you've written.
I advise you to consult the page "presentation"
Features:
Use of expression: every information associated to a file can be used
Name, base name, extension, size, dates et times, dos name, paths ...
Selection number (not depending on the position of the file in the
list)
Numbers in name
Information extracted from files:
Audio: mp3, mpc, ogg, wma, wav
Video: avi, mpg, asf, wmv
Image: tif, jpg, gif, png, pcx, bmp, dib, ico, cur
Exif tags
Karaoke: kar, mid
"Office" document: doc, xls, pot, pps, ppt, mpp, dot
PDF document
Fixed text
System date and time
To each one of these elements, can be applied the following
functionalities
Case modifiers (uppercase/lowercase)
Accented characters to standard ASCII conversion
Substring extractions (fixed and relative)
String replacements and deletions
On the final result some treatments can be applied:
Delete characters
Delete multi characters
Characters replacement
etc ...
Tools will help you to write, keep and reuse expressions (completion,
right click, favorites ...)
Sub-directories recursion
You can work on a complete directory tree
Undo & Redo
Unlimited
"Drop" files and directories
The directory is loaded and the files selected
Image visualization
Even if embedded in a file tag
Creation of DOS batch rename files
Management of the system shortcuts to Siren
Among those, the contextual menu "Send To"
"Basic" functions
All the standard functions like choosing the directory, sort, search,
selection, columns order and appearance are present
Are added to these
Individual renaming (with "F2" like under Explorer)
Automatic selection of displayed columns
Monitor current directory modifications
Call of the shell contextual menu
Set current directory to the Explorer's one
Copy the file list to the clipboard (for Excel, for example)
Delete, "execute" one or more files
Many examples
Two languages: French and English
XP Theme support
No installation required
No writing in the registry
and others that i let to you discover
****End quote***
I had a lot of pdf-files called "psdfh1.pdf, psdfh2.pdf, psdfh3.pdf..."
etc I had DL'ed from somewhere. Now I was finally able to rename them
by their title or subject info. What a relief! Also you can now add
your often used expressions to favourites and give them a memorable
name.
Windows 98 --> (not tested under 95)
Size: ~300 kb.
Homepage: http://www.scarabee-software.net/