Automatically Rename Your TV and Anime Shows And Fetch Subtitles Using FileBot [Windows, Linux, MacOS X]

FileBot is a JAVA application for renaming your TV shows and anime (the name is auto-detected), download subtitles for your TV shows or simple file verifications.

Being a JAVA app, FileBot runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.


Besides renaming your TV shows, FileBot can also:

• Fetch episode lists from TVRage, AniDB, TV.com, IMDb or TheTVDB
• Reverse rename files using internal history or the original torrent file
• Download subtitles from OpenSubtitles, Subscene, Sublight or SubtitleSource
• Auto-extract zip and rar archives
• It comes with an integrated subtitle viewer for srt, ass and sub files
• Easily create and verify sfv, md5 and sha1 files
• Aware of checksums that are embedded in the filename
• Directly compare two or more directory trees

FileBot doesn't even require installing and you can run it directly from its website. But you can run it locally (on your computer) if you want to, just make sure to also download Mediainfo native libraries for your operating system.

In Ubuntu, you can install Mediainfo via a PPA (the following command is for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and 10.04 Lucid Lynx):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiki/mediainfo
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mediainfo

For older Ubuntu version, see the details for adding the PPA, here.


Once you install MediaInfo, download the FileBot executable .jar file from its website. Once downloaded, to run the .jar file in Ubuntu right click it, select "Properties" and on the "Permissions" tab, check the "Execute: Allow executing the file as program" box, then right click the .jar file again and select "Open with Sun Java 6 Runtime".

[Screenshot credits: FileBot website - I have absolutely no TV show on the computer where I'm typing this; thanks to ubuntublog.ch for the tip!]