theMK2k / Media-Hoarder

Media Hoarder - THE media frontend for data hoarders and movie lovers

Media Hoarder

Media Hoarder is THE frontend for your movie (and later: tv series) collection if you love metadata, filter abilities and easy management.

Features

• Start a conversation with ChatGPT and apply the results to your media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqiChgd2iuo

• Tons of metadata from imdb.com including poster images

• Metadata from mediainfo analysis

• Filter by:

  • Source Paths (e.g. distinguish between files on your NAS and locally available ones)
  • Video Quality (e.g. 720p, HD, 4k etc.)
  • Audio Languages
  • Subtitle Languages
  • Your Lists
  • Your Rating (5-star)
  • Metacritic Score
  • IMDB Rating (10-star)
  • Genres
  • Ages
  • Content Advisory
    • Sex & Nudity
    • Violence & Gore
    • Profanity
    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes
  • People (e.g. Directors, Actors etc.)
  • Companies (e.g. Production, Visual Effects etc.)
  • Year of Release

• Sort by

  • Name
  • IMDB Rating
  • Metascore
  • Your Rating (5-star)
  • Year
  • Date/Time of import

• Embedded Trailer Player

• List Management (create lists and add/remove movies)

• Copy Info (for easy sharing with social media, includes your 5-star rating)

  Example:

  ★★★★☆ Beats (2019)
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7524414
  

• (re-)assign IMDB entry including embedded IMDB search dialog

Supported File Formats

Media Hoarder currently supports the following file formats:

File Extension	Format Name
avi	Audio Video Interleave
mp4	MPEG-4
mkv	Matroska
m2ts	Blu-ray Disc Audio-Video MPEG-2 Transport Stream
rar	Roshal Archive (preferrably uncompressed)

Documentation

The following linked documents provide some detailed information about some inner workings.

Document	Description
01-Media-Storage.md	how Media Hoarder expects media files to be stored
02-IMDB-ID-Detection.md	in-depth talk about how Media Hoarder tries to find the correct IMDB entry for a movie
03-Parental-Guidance-Rating.md	how Media Hoarder handles parental guidance / rating

Star History

Download and Install

Downloads are availbale at releases.

Currently Media Hoarder comes as:

• Windows 7/8/10 x64 Setup and Portable (.zip)
• Linux x64 Setup (.deb, .appimage, .snap, .rpm) and Portable (.tar.gz)
• MacOS X .dmg (Intel and Apple Silicon)

For Developers: Getting started from source

Please read 00-Dev-Setup.md.

Install Node.js

Visit https://nodejs.org and download/install it for your OS. Media Hoarder is developed with Node.js v14 but should also be compatible with newer versions.

Install vue-cli

[sudo] npm install -g @vue/cli

(only on armhf architecture / Raspberry Pi): Install phantomjs globally

sudo apt -y install phantomjs

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder.git

Project setup

npm install

Generate Application Icons

npm run electron:generate-icons

Invoke Builder

npm run invokebuilder

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

npm start

Compiles and minifies for production

npm run electron:build

Compiles and creates .deb and .AppImage packages for Linux

npm run electron:build-linux

Compiles and creates .deb package for Raspberry Pi (armhf architecture)

npm run electron:build-rpi

Compiles and creates .zip and .dmg packages for MacOS

npm run electron:build-mac

Known Issues

• if sqlite3 has issues on installing/building perform:

npm uninstall sqlite3
npm install --save sqlite3

• on armhf (Raspberry Pi) PhantomJS must be manually installed before running npm install

sudo apt -y install phantomjs

else you get the following error:

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Unexpected platform or architecture: linux/arm
It seems there is no binary available for your platform/architecture
Try to install PhantomJS globally

White screen on Raspberry Pi:

sudo npm install -g electron@7.3.3 --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root