Retrospectively adding release year to movie filenames

[hannay11]

I have My library of 3,000+ movie files on a (backed-up!) ext. HD hooked up to a Zappiti media player for TV watching.

When I originally started collecting movie files I used just the movie's title to name them.

As I became more familiar with the protocols of movie flienaming for various purposes I began adding the release year also.

I now want to add release years to the filenames of those that do not have them, however there are over a thousand of them and although manually looking up the dates and adding them by hand one at a time would eventually get the job done I would prefer an automated intelligent renamer if there is such a thing.

Not bothered whether it is achieved by scraping a database and replacing with a complete new title/year filename, or just adds the year to an existing filename

Can someone who is expert in FileBot advise if it can be used to do that?

Many thanks!

[rednoah]

Yes, sounds like a very basic use case. Best to try things for yourself before purchasing a license.

[hannay11]

Thank you rednoah, that is good news indeed!

I will certainly see how I get on with a tryout, however is there a user manual/guide that I can access to learn the software's features and how to use it, or perhaps some how-to guides that could help point me in the right direction?

As I have zero experience of using it, any advice/suggestions that would possibly be useful would be most appreciated.

Thanks again.

[rednoah]

You will find GUI usage rather self-explanatory once you start clicking on buttons, but seeing it in action once always helps:
https://www.filebot.net/getting-started/