ChangeMediaName

Tool that changes media files to its creation date.

Installation

pip install cmn

Usage

cmn -i <input-files> [options]

Options

Option 1	Option 2	Description
h	help	Show this help message and exit
i	input-files	Required. File(s) or folder(s) to scan
v	verbose	Default: False. Verbose mode
r	recursive	Default: False. Scan folders recursively
ni	ignored-paths	Default: None. Files or folders to be ignored
nr	not-ignore-subfolders	Default: True. Choose to not ignore subfolders of the ignored paths
t	file-types	Default: None. List of file types to consider
nt	not-file-types	Default: None. List of file types to ignore
of	only-images	Default: False. Consider only images
ov	only-videos	Default: False. Consider only videos
cf	create-new-folders	Default: False. Create new folders according to the new image names
fn	name-format	Default: %Y%m%d_%H%M%S. Format of the new names
ff	name-folder-format	Default: %Y - %m - %d. Format of the new folder names

Supported file types

Type	Extension	Name
Image	HEIC	High Efficiency Image File Format
Image	JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group File Format
Image	JPG	Joint Photographic Group File Format
Image	PNG	Portable Network Graphics File Format
Image	WEBP	WebP Image File Format
Video	AVI	Audio Video Interleave
Video	AVI	Audio Video Interleave
Video	MP4	MPEG-4 Part 14

Requirements

• Install exiftool command from https://exiftool.org/. Credits to Phil Harvey.