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)
Media Hoarder's movie list
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Details about an actor including the movies they are involved in as well as their role
Access individual movies in any list
Let ChatGPT generate movie lists
Media Hoarder's series list
Episode rating heatmap for a series
Access individual episodes from the rating heatmap
Details of an actor and their involvement in series / episodes
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Start a conversation with ChatGPT and apply the results to your media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqiChgd2iuo
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Tons of metadata from imdb.com including poster images
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Metadata from mediainfo analysis
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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
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Sort by
- Name
- IMDB Rating
- Metascore
- Your Rating (5-star)
- Year
- Date/Time of import
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Embedded Trailer Player
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List Management (create lists and add/remove movies/series)
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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
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) |
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 |
Downloads are availbale at releases.
Currently Media Hoarder comes as:
- Windows 7/8/10/11 x64 Setup and Portable (.zip)
- Linux x64 Setup (.deb, .appimage, .snap, .rpm) and Portable (.tar.gz)
- MacOS X .dmg (Intel and Apple Silicon)
Please read Dev-Setup.md.
Visit https://nodejs.org and download/install it for your OS. Media Hoarder is developed with Node.js v14.
[sudo] npm install -g @vue/clisudo apt -y install phantomjsgit clone https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder.gitnpm installnpm run electron:generate-iconsnpm run invokebuildernpm startnpm run electron:buildnpm run electron:build-linuxnpm run electron:build-rpinpm run electron:build-mac- 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 phantomjselse 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 globallyWhite screen on Raspberry Pi:
sudo npm install -g electron@7.3.3 --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root