29 May
2011
29 May
'11
9:04 p.m.
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.
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29 May
29 May
10:06 p.m.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rony
<gnulinuxist(a)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
30 May
30 May
7:58 p.m.
On 05/29/2011 10:06 PM, Shamit Verma 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.
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On Sun, May
29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rony <gnulinuxist(a)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)
8:17 p.m.
2011/5/30 Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com>om>:
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
9:08 p.m.
On 05/30/2011 08:17 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/5/30 Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com>om>:
I was just going to write that. I used
find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv '{}' Media/Music/ \ ;
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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.
31 May
31 May
8:07 a.m.
2011/5/30 Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com>om>:
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
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/ \ ;
7:33 p.m.
On 05/31/2011 08:07 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/5/30 Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
I used different commands for mp3, MP3 etc. I guess all my songs have
been copied as many other folders are now empty.
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/ \ ; 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.
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.
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
Hmm. Thanks.
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30 May
30 May
9:52 p.m.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Rony
<gnulinuxist(a)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
31 May
31 May
12:44 a.m.
On Monday 30 May 2011 9:52:06 pm Shamit Verma wrote:
Craaaawls on a amd64. Uses 100% cpu. XBMC ubuntu 10.04.
On Mon, May 30,
2011 at 7:58 PM, Rony <gnulinuxist(a)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
1 Jun
1 Jun
10:30 p.m.
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
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3 Jun
3 Jun
11:59 a.m.
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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Rony.
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