sportwagon wrote:Now if we want to go all out, the renaming section could be a whole language unto itself and have conditionals based on the various meta data pieces
Honestly, this is what I had in mind when bringing up the subject. I was looking to see if there was a way to do this by doing "if(ismovie) then...else...." for example. This does not require any gui modifications and because it is an advanced feature, the average user would not need to know about it unless they are looking for such a feature. Some sort of interface would be nice but because it sounds like you want to market it towards basic users (which is understandable), it would not be necessary. The first thing that comes to mind that has this kind of functionality, if my memory serves, is a program called Picard by MusicBrainz. It is used to fill in metadata and organize mp3s based on the metadata it retrieves.
In regards to the program not knowing whether it is a movie or a tv show, I originally thought that it finds this information out. For example, I mentioned that I saw a custom commands section in the documentation. In this section is a parameter named %ismovie% which returns true or false. If it cannot determine this, then it could throw some sort of naming scheme error or put the file in a general folder for manually moving it later on.
I must admit, I too am a programmer so maybe I am going about this in a more technical way then it needs to be - especially since adding such a conditional language feature would be somewhat difficult and/or time consuming. And as a programmer, I do understand what kind of value simplicity can bring to a product, especially one aimed at basic users but it would be a nice feature to have, although I can only guess at how many people would use it.
In the meantime, you have answered my question as to whether it can do this or not at present and I thank you. At this point I am not necessarily requesting you add this feature, but I do ask you to keep it in mind and mull it over a bit :-)