Media Hoarder

Media Hoarder is THE frontend for your Movie and TV Series collection if you love metadata, filter abilities and easy management.

Media Hoarder:

• automatically scans your movies and tv series (local or NAS, you define the source paths)
• gathers metadata using mediainfo and imdb.com
• provides a frontend to browse your collection and play your media (running the media player of your choice, e.g. VLC)

Screenshots

Media Hoarder's movie list

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 multiple criteria

  • 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/series)

• 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:

Documentation

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

Star History

Download and Install

Downloads are available at releases.

Currently Media Hoarder comes as:

• Windows 10/11 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 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.

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

./build-linux.sh
./build-mac.sh
./build-win-stable.sh

Compiles and creates packages for Linux and FreeBSD

Note: for flatpak and pacman packages you need to have the following tools installed:

• flatpak
• flatpak-builder
• fakeroot (for pacman)
• libarchive-tools (for bsdtar, pacman)

./build-linux.sh

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

npm run electron:build-rpi

Compiles and creates .dmg packages for MacOS

./build-mac.sh

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