Media Organizer

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

CLI Usage

This is the output from --help.

```txt media_organizer 0.5.0 Andrew Gremlich andrew.gremlich@gmail.com Organize media into one folder with a date-centric folder structure.

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

OPTIONS: -c, --copy Copy the files instead of moving them. -d, --destination The destination path of sorted media. -f, --file-type The file type to sort. [default: *] -h, --help Print help information -t, --target The target media to sort. -V, --version Print version information ```

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 --destination sorted_media

While developing with cargo, forward the flags.

bash cargo run -- --target test-media --destination sorted_media

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

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

Future development

• 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?

• Organize audio files?

• Contribute to Kamadak-exif?
• Write tests for bin and lib?

• 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.