Thanks for all the help and info.

Is there somewhere else I should see my prior formats then? If not is OK, I always kept them in notepad file because I never knew whether Filebot saved them.

This is where I put the custom format - options, edit format. It's the only place I've used for pasting my own, I didn't know there is more than one place. https://i.imgur.com/h8NAcZg.png I pressed F5 twice (is that still right way?) and it says "FileBot 5.1.7 (r10514)". Is the "format editor", the ...

Source directory: https://i.imgur.com/AsAdmzh.png I loaded just the four AVI files on the left pane. Then clicked on right pane and pressed F2. Same files loaded. Then added custom format and clicked "use format". Nothing changed. I reopened the format area again for reference then took this ...

Whatever files I load on the left, when I press F2 on the blank right side, it just populates the same files that are on the left. If the left is only media files, that's all that comes on the right. If the left is only .srt files that's all I get on the right. If the left is all files from the ...

From my OP:
>>>What I want to do, is have Filebot rename the *media* file to match one of the .srt files for that same season/episode? It doesn't matter which .srt for that episode

I'm not having any luck, I guess I'm still not setting it up correctly. Thanks anyway.

Thank you again for all the detailed help. I will give it a go.

Thank you for more info. I only wish to rename each media file to match any one of its .srt files. Does this also rename .srt files?

Thank you! I had tried to follow the Plain File Mode instructions before I posted this, but didn't work. I must not have set it up correctly. I will give it another go. Thanks again.

I am wondering if there is an easy way to do this, either in GUI or command line? I have a folder containing multiple media files. One media file per TV episode, TV.Show.Name.S01E01.some_text.<ext> There are also one or more .srt files in the folder, for each episode. They are named TV.Show.Name ...

Awesome. Thank you very much.

(My apologies if this has already been reported. I did try searching the forums first, but couldn't come up with good search terms - F2 is too short and isn't accepted, and words like "filename", "rename", "conflict", etc. appear everywhere...) I stumbled across pressing F2 and getting a rename ...