Magic File Renamer Alternatives for Linux

Magic File Renamer is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Kid3, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Magic File Renamer and 13 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Magic File Renamer are F2, Simplest File Renamer, KRename and FileRenamer.

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  1. Kid3 icon
     67 likes

    If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
     
  2. F2 icon
     12 likes
    • F2 helps you organise your filesystem through batch renaming so that your files and directories can have a consistent naming scheme.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Rename your files directly or with your favorite text editor, making use of all your 1337 keyboard shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. KRename icon
     19 likes

    KRename is a powerful batch renamer for KDE. It allows you to easily rename hundreds or even more files in one go. The filenames can be created by parts of the original filename, numbering the files or accessing hundreds of informations about the file, like creation date or Exif...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. FileRenamer icon
     7 likes

    Renaming files or folders can be very cumbersome, especially if you want to rename a high number of files. But it is not necessary to click on every single file individually, make some changes just to take the same procedure at the next file!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Métamorphose icon
     21 likes

    Métamorphose is a batch renamer, a program to rename large sets of files and folders quickly and easily.

    63 Métamorphose alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • OpenSolaris
     
  7. EXIF ReName icon
     6 likes

    EXIF ReName is a program to name the pictures after the date and time the picture was taken.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. F2Utility icon
     4 likes

    An easy and effective batch file rename tool. Rename multiple files at once using a wide range of tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Batch rename files and folders on Windows, Mac and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. A cross-platform file and folder mass renamer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11.  3 likes

    vimv is a terminal-based file rename utility that lets you easily mass-rename files using Vim. It lets you leverage the power of Vim, for example use visual selection to delete a prefix from all files or use search and replace to match patterns.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. A portable file rename tool. File rename tool can rename, lowcase, upcase large numbers of files. It's a quick and powerful tool written in C with extended regular expression supporting for searching and substituting pattern strings in filenames.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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