Media Organizer

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

CLI Usage

This is the output from --help.

Photo Organizer 0.4.1
Andrew Gremlich
Organize media in one folder into date-centric folder structure.

USAGE:
    media_organizer [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --target <TARGET_MEDIA>

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

OPTIONS:
    -d, --dest <DEST_FOLDER>       Name of the folder in the current directory where organized media will be put.
                                   [default: media]
    -f, --filetype <FILE_TYPE>     File type to sort. Defaults to all file types. [default: *]
    -t, --target <TARGET_MEDIA>    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.

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.

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.