This tool assists in organizing your photo library by renaming all files to their "taken" dates thus keeping everything in chronological order in each of your photo albums.

Photos and videos will be assigned names according to the following pattern:

ML<year><month><day>_<hours><minutes><seconds>.<file extension>

For example: ML20110101_120115.jpg for a photo taken on January 1st 2011, at 12:01:15 PM

• Photos - jpg, png (reads EXIF information or taken date field)
• Video - mov, avi, mp4, 3gp (reads Recorded or Encoded dates)
• In case metadata was not provided - falls back to file creation/modification dates and takes the earliest one.

When I encode videos taken on my photo camera they loose their taken dates, so I copy them from original files over into creation/modifications dates. This way autonaming logic can give them proper names later on.

• Have videos and photos taken on multiple devices shown together in chronological order when viewing (iPhone and iPad appear to use file names only when sorting)
• Backup taken dates in case metadata gets lost over time (some tools overwrite metadata when rotating/cropping images). This was very important for me with video files, since my photo camera keeps it in creation/modification dates only.