Hello,
I am looking for a good multimedia organiser that can dig into my system and organise pictures, music, video files that are scattered across many folders as doing it manually is just not possible for me. It should automatically categorise media types. It should have category views that I can simply click on like music, videos etc. so I can get all those files in one list. I have been trying out different media players/centers but they don't have what I want.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a good multimedia organiser that can dig into my system and organise pictures, music, video files that are scattered across many folders as doing it manually is just not possible for me. It should
How to you keep media at the moment? I.e.
1. Do audio files have correct ID3 tags? 2. Are Audio files already in proper folders (E.g. songs of the same album in same folder) 3. Does media files / directories have some naming convention (E.g. To differentiate between music videos and movie videos, and to identify Episode # of TV shows)
Based on current status of Media, we can identify few tools.
-Shamit
On 05/29/2011 10:06 PM, Shamit Verma wrote:
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a good multimedia organiser that can dig into my system and organise pictures, music, video files that are scattered across many folders as doing it manually is just not possible for me. It should
How to you keep media at the moment? I.e.
- Do audio files have correct ID3 tags?
- Are Audio files already in proper folders (E.g. songs of the same
album in same folder) 3. Does media files / directories have some naming convention (E.g. To differentiate between music videos and movie videos, and to identify Episode # of TV shows)
The files are scattered and have extensions that tell their type, like mp3, avi etc. What I want is a media browser that can dig through my directories and sub directories and show files in folders like music, video etc. Basically it will be an advanced search and sort utility.
2011/5/30 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
The files are scattered and have extensions that tell their type, like mp3, avi etc. What I want is a media browser that can dig through my directories and sub directories and show files in folders like music, video etc. Basically it will be an advanced search and sort utility.
mkdir /music find $HOME -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /music
and similarly for video etc.
Binand
On 05/30/2011 08:17 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/5/30 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
The files are scattered and have extensions that tell their type, like mp3, avi etc. What I want is a media browser that can dig through my directories and sub directories and show files in folders like music, video etc. Basically it will be an advanced search and sort utility.
mkdir /music find $HOME -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /music
and similarly for video etc.
I was just going to write that. I used
find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv '{}' Media/Music/ \ ;
2011/5/30 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
find $HOME -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /music
and similarly for video etc.
I was just going to write that. I used
find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv '{}' Media/Music/ \ ;
There are three problems with this.
1. If there is a something.mp3 in your current working directory, then this will process precisely that file (and any other identically named files). It will not process *all* mp3 files. In my original, I had single-quoted *.mp3 for this reason.
2. Sometime in life, this find will descend into Media/Music and process the files there again - which are already moved. Wastage of CPU cycles. Which is why I had used a /music that is outside of $HOME.
3. find | xargs is superior to find -exec, due to the fact that the former is more efficient. See: http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/07/efficiency-of-find-exec-vs-find-xargs.html
Binand
On 05/31/2011 08:07 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/5/30 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
find $HOME -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /music
and similarly for video etc.
I was just going to write that. I used
find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv '{}' Media/Music/ \ ;
There are three problems with this.
- If there is a something.mp3 in your current working directory, then
this will process precisely that file (and any other identically named files). It will not process *all* mp3 files. In my original, I had single-quoted *.mp3 for this reason.
I used different commands for mp3, MP3 etc. I guess all my songs have been copied as many other folders are now empty.
- Sometime in life, this find will descend into Media/Music and
process the files there again - which are already moved. Wastage of CPU cycles. Which is why I had used a /music that is outside of $HOME.
It happened when I ran the command again and it said "The file in /path/file.mp3 is the same as /path/file.mp3". Anyway, now all my files are in one place.
- find | xargs is superior to find -exec, due to the fact that the
former is more efficient. See: http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/07/efficiency-of-find-exec-vs-find-xargs.html
Hmm. Thanks.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
The files are scattered and have extensions that tell their type, like mp3, avi etc. What I want is a media browser that can dig through my directories and sub directories and show files in folders like music, video etc. Basically it will be an advanced search and sort utility.
You can use XBMC for that. E.g.: http://xbmc.org/wp-content/gallery/confluence/screenshot007.jpg It can scan given directories / nfs / cifs shares for media.
However it would not be able to determine that a given AVI file is Movie or Music (I.e. Music Video) unless file has correct tags.
You can try YAMJ if you find XBMC too heavy for this task.
-Shamit
On Monday 30 May 2011 9:52:06 pm Shamit Verma wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
The files are scattered and have extensions that tell their type, like mp3, avi etc. What I want is a media browser that can dig through my directories and sub directories and show files in folders like music, video etc. Basically it will be an advanced search and sort utility.
You can use XBMC for that. E.g.: http://xbmc.org/wp-content/gallery/confluence/screenshot007.jpg It can scan given directories / nfs / cifs shares for media.
Craaaawls on a amd64. Uses 100% cpu. XBMC ubuntu 10.04.
However it would not be able to determine that a given AVI file is Movie or Music (I.e. Music Video) unless file has correct tags.
You can try YAMJ if you find XBMC too heavy for this task.
-Shamit
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:44 AM, jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Craaaawls on a amd64. Uses 100% cpu. XBMC ubuntu 10.04.
Do you have media playback working (without using CPU for decode) for any player on that PC?
-Shamit
On 05/29/2011 09:04 PM, Rony wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for a good multimedia organiser that can dig into my system and organise pictures, music, video files that are scattered across many folders as doing it manually is just not possible for me. It should automatically categorise media types. It should have category views that I can simply click on like music, videos etc. so I can get all those files in one list. I have been trying out different media players/centers but they don't have what I want.
I remember Beagle was supposed to be used for precisely this requirement. Although I never got used to it, I thought it might be interesting to people who are of the 'serach rather than organize' mindset (I'm not).
Think of it as GUI based content-sensitive, updatedb+locate.
In any case, there's a list of desktop search tools here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Desktop_search_engines
If so inclined, you could possibly also hack something up with `find`+`file` and store it in an sqlite db. Enjoy :)
cheers, - steve
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_%28software%29
On 06/01/2011 10:30 PM, steve wrote:
In any case, there's a list of desktop search tools here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Desktop_search_engines
I will look it up. I was not using the correct keywords during my search for the same. Thanks.
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Binand Sethumadhavan -
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Rony -
Shamit Verma -
steve