exhu / palica3

Media catalogue app, third try

Photo/video collection management tools

Overview

Distributed under GPLv3+ without any warranty, see COPYING.

Usable command line tool, and optionally gui. Collects all files, but primary usage is for image and video files on removable storage.

Programs

• palica-rs — database management tools

• vienik-rs — file management tools

TODO

• collection

  • implement sync

  • don’t allow to delete patterns used in a filter

  • don’t allow to delete filters used by collections

  • sync, warn if there’re collections with the same source path

  • support media detection for collections from the same source path, e.g. for /cdrom via fs uuid (e.g. blkid)

  • add colouring

  • add file, dir, files from list, ignore hidden files/folders ".*"

• metadata database

  • tags (keywords)

  • mime-type

  • sha256

• sync report

  • collection availability

  • directory existence

  • file existence

  • changes:

    • file date

    • file sha256

    • file type

• rich filtering (tags, date, mime) options

• if necessary replace dynamic arrays with ranges for collections, tags, dirs etc.

• parallel processing

DONE

• collection

  • tree? (may be there’s a linux command to format file list as tree)

  • remove

    • file

    • dir

    • collection

  • use filter when populating/sync collection

  • file list (all files of a collection)

  • save filter name for collection

  • add, warn if there’re collections with the same source path

• scan directory tree, build collection

• basic db operations (collection, direntry objects)

• basic fs operations (directory entry info)

• make a better cli and usage screen (parse args based on command)

• metadata database

  • name

  • date

  • size

Dependencies

• exiftool command line utility

• sqlite library (libsqlite3-dev)

• any image viewer, e.g. feh or gwenview

Versions Planning

MVP

• Collections management

  • Add

    • Using glob (file path) filter

  • Remove

  • Sync filesystem

    • Ask if deleted files are really deleted or there’s fs mismatch

  • Tags from xmp

• Select files (print file list)

  • by path (collection:/path)

  • by path filter

  • by tags

    • if contains any of the selected tags

    • if contains no tags

Version 1

• Normalize program output

  • all diagnostic/debug messages to stderr

  • output must be parseable

• Path filter editing

• Generate xmp by exiftool

• File hash

• Tag add, remove, update xmp with exiftool

• File rename, delete, move commands

Version 2

• Thumbnails

• Perceptual hash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing

• For video files https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#signature-1

• Device id

Version N

• Use file hash to detect moves, renames

• Thumbnails browser

Version N+1

• Mime types