[Feature request] Allow for renaming files within torrents

[nickpeirson]

I had a look over the docs and couldn't see a way to rename a file. I had a look at the source and couldn't see any reference to torrent_handle::rename_file or torrent_info::rename_file. It's entirely possible I've missed something as I'm not that familiar with rtorrent. If I've not missed it, would it be possible to expose the rename_file functionality?

There are a couple use cases for this:

• Cross seeding torrents where torrents have different file names for the same content
• Moving and renaming files, e.g. for media libraries

[Tatsh]

Change your first thing to Safely cross-seed the same set of files to multiple trackers and then we have an idea. I would much rather save disk space.

[James-E-A]

I really miss this feature from Deluge. Sometimes I would download videos and tag them with a CRC32, or download a comic book and rename .zip or .rar files to .cbz or .cbr… this is really quite a vital feature.

[purrloftruth]

This is a vital feature for those using this along with a software like Plex, which requires files and directories to be named in a very specific manner.

[chros73]

Have you tried using symlinks with Plex?

[zhen-huan-hu]

Symlinks sure can work if you only seed a few files. With thousands of files, it's gonna be a disaster to maintain.

[matijaerceg]

This would be great for radarr/sonarr which sometimes has a hard time picking up files in rtorrent because there's an AKA or something in the filename for foreign files.

[James-E-A]

For the record (and I mean that literally speaking, not sarcastically; I'm noting it here for future reference and to accelerate any "spring cleaning" of the issues), this is a duplicate of #167.