Media Organizer

Need an organizer for your media content on the computer? Run this!

CLI Usage

This is the output from --help.

```txt Photo Organizer 0.3.6 Andrew Gremlich Organize media in one folder into date-centric folder structure.

USAGE: media_organizer [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --target

FLAGS: -c, --copy Copy files instead of moving them. -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -d, --dest Name of the folder in the current directory where organized media will be put. [default: media] -f, --filetype File type to sort. Defaults to all file types. [default: *] -t, --target Target media. Can be a folder with unorganized media or a single file. ```

Example CLI usage

To quickly organize photos in the target folder, run the following command to output them into the default destination directory.

bash media_organizer --target test-media

To add a destination folder for all the organized photos, add the --dest <DEST_FOLDER> flag to the end.

While developing with cargo, forward the flags.

bash cargo run -- --target test-photos

Features

• Organize photos and videos in a folder structure based off creation dates.

  • Organize a single media file, or a folder containing unorganized media files.

  • Photos organized based off of EXIF creation dates.

  • Whitelisted photo file types. ("jpeg", "jpg", "JPEG", "JPG", "HEIC", "heic", "PNG", "png")

  • Video organized based off of FFMPEG creation dates.

  • Whitelisted video file types. ("mp4", "MP4", "mov", "MOV")

  • User provides target folder of unorganized images. Will move photos to a default photos directory in the directory where the binary was ran. The outputed folders will be the respective creation dates on the media.

• Allow configurable destination folder.

  • Use the --dest flag.

• Organize specific file types. Default to any filetype.

• Option to copy files or move files.

• Exposed creation date reading functions.

Dependencies

• C++ build tools (or equivalent like build-essentials) (for ffmpeg-next package)
• FFMPEG

Future development

• Organize audio files?
• Contribute to Kamadak-exif?

• Give option to change permission of parent folder?

  • This will require mapping out the directory structure and checking file permissions.

  • Make structs mapping out the file directory?

• Export web assembly binary to use in JS/Node/Electron.

  • Watch out for DEST_FOLDER environment variable.
  • OR! Just use Tauri!?

• Option to index photos.

• Option to compress image sizes.