Media Hoarder is celebrating its 2nd birthday today and it finally supports tv series with the freshly released v1.4.0.
Here's a video showcasing the new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch/3qfb5UWJrdQ
Development wise I've been joined by an individual named kolbdog323 providing lots of feedback and requests over multiple months which I'm truly grateful of, because Media Hoarder is still an absolute side-project developed by a father of two in his limited spare time :D
Please feel free to discuss features, development and sideproject-y things, I'm really curious!
Media Hoarder Website: https://media.hoarder.software
Blog post "2nd Birthday - TV Series Support": https://media.hoarder.software/blog/2nd-birthday-tv-series-s...
GitHub project: https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder
cheers
-- MK2k
I found it surprisingly hard to answer this question poking around at the website and links shared in this thread.
Of course you can run Media Hoarder alongside them, it won't interfere, but that'd be about it.
I came to the HN Comments here and the first thing I see is someone asking exactly what I was wondering, followed by this:
> If "alongside Plex, Jellyfin" would be an intended use-case then I would've involved those names in the README or website.
I appreciate that this is an open source project you've likely put hundreds or thousands of hours of work into. You're under no obligation to be 'nice' or polite to people.
But the perceived tone of this reply doesn't leave a positive impression.
I see others have also left similarly... negative? sarcastic? replies to other questions about it.
While it may be obvious to you, and other dedicated users - seeing that it's a "frontend" to a media collection doesn't really clarify it.
Having an alternative to Tautili and/or getting more information on my media sounds nice. But I have the media so I can watch it, and if it interferes with that then I am not personally interested.
If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fear not, most media is mass replicated onto various forms of physical media, and chances are high that a copy of that can be had for very little money.
But before rushing out to empty the local "on sale" DVD/Blu-Ray bins, take a good long breath and consider if you'll ever actually watch said media again, or it's just sentimental value ? Most of the people i know that hoard media will rarely rewatch anything, and simply pile on top of what they already have. Once you realize that you're just collecting digital cruft, it becomes a lot easier to just delete it all.
Also keep in mind that the electricity cost of running a harddrive in europe is around €2/month, and with enough harddrives it actually becomes cheaper to just subscribe to one or more streaming services.
There's somethings i have for background noise and visuals that i got on YT - what, i should stream it every time? even at 480p this will eat into monthly caps. What about things where i know i have one of the only full (as in needs no fills) copies of some media from the 1990s? Less than 5% of the stuff i keep is contemporaneous with the download date.
If one is just downloading "current" things and then figuring out how to store more of it; then i 100% agree. That's a waste of space and time. Chances are you're paying for the right to stream it, and if you don't care about caps, burn the shareholder money for all i care by streaming it whenever you want to see it. Ideally at 4k.
I'll keep downloading and storing stuff i find important - someday when/if youtube deletes some channels i have backed up, or a production company pulls all their content off of streaming platforms, or a different archive with convoluted steps to access content ceases to exist - i'll still have it, with subtitle files, searchable, locally. It happens a lot more often than you think.
I'm fairly lazy / procrastinatey when it comes to things like that, but thank f*ck I yt-dlp'd it (and really not too long before it was taken down - and I don't know why and can't track down why or who made the clip).
Maybe I need to do a search to see if other people are looking for it...
And if anyone cares to know: The Mountains of Madness CD1 (I think) version Idalah Abal by John Zorn / Electric Masada, and the film clip was a bunch of still of various, mostly fringe, some quite gross/confronting art pieces. For me, it fits beautifully with the phrenetic music.
I think there's a big, thick, mental health-related line that separates an archivist from a hoarder.
Edit: OK, there are more versions the song on yt, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpvDV6Qvik, but that custom film-clip ain't.
Edit 2: Wrong on both counts, my search-fu ain't what it used to be. It's still there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jk6lolne8
There was a good couple of years it didn't float to the surface of any unchanged search query.
Cool story bro, pity it makes your argument eat itself... sigh.
The timestamp on it is 2006, I guess I edited the ID3 tags on it at that point.
In specific scenarios local copies are far more valuable than 'cloud' availability.
Having said that, maybe we're quibbling over the definition of 'hoarding', which maybe (hah! definitely!) implies obsessive, and therefore implicitly unhealthy - in which case I agree.
You do you though.
It doesn't take much to "hoard". Especially these days it's easier and cheaper than ever. Slap 2x20TB drives in your PC and you're essentially a data hoarder already.
I do notice that younger generations absolutely love giving up though.
I'm not a hoarder, but I do have a (very) long Excel file of movies and documentaries that I want to watch or have already watched. Most of them are available on streaming sites or for rent/download on demand.
You've got a great IMDb scraper and filtering UI. That's all I really need! :)
Actually, I do use 0-byte files in my tests and demos. They are artificially created in the following way: https://github.com/theMK2k/media-hoarder-testset-generator
Filing an issue on GitHub is the correct thing to do. It has higher visibility for a longer period of time than a hacker news comment and is more likely to resolve the issue while wasting less time of the maintainer's and anyone else using the software.
edit: It seems you've been upvoted back to normal. Ignore me.
At least I can tilt my screen until the colors get wonky and see the pattern! For a while I admit I didn't even notice there was color coding at all.
This looks great especially since I have complete collections of various sci if stuff I loved growing up (Star Trek: TNG, Star Gate). The big thing for me is how this supports sitting on the couch and looking for something to watch.
Would you like me to share if I can't find one and wind up doing it myself?
Do you plan on writing comparisons with other tools like Jellyfin and Kyoo?
I didn't plan to do direct comparisons, but it's not the first time someone asked about this, I might have to do it...
You should definitely look into them more because there's a huge overlap. Focus on what can set your project apart.
When there are quite a few well-established media storage/player solutions/toolings, you should look into starting your marketing page with why you are different or better than the others. Most reasons for people moving between tools is the lack of the features in the ones that users are using and hoping it is in the new one.
Of course, if you can get a lot of testimonials then that should work better.
I created a blog post about this when v1.0.0 was released (maybe a bit too hidden): https://media.hoarder.software/blog/why-media-hoarder
> The software may not be used by anyone for systems or activities that actively and knowingly endanger, harm, or otherwise threaten the physical, mental, economic, or general well-being of other individuals or groups
I'm not sure how the United Nations defines economic harm, but if anybody's using this to view pirated content, it seems like they might not have a license to it (and using it would be a separate copyright violation).
But I suppose if you're pirating your media anyway, violating the media center's copyright wouldn't really be a concern.
Or are people really ripping DVDs and Blu-Rays from huge personal collections?
Can be used, probably yeah. Doesn't mean that's the primary purpose. I know plenty of people who buy DVDs and rip them as it's easier to play it back than letting kids fiddle around with DVD players and disks.
There's other use cases as well:
- DVR'd recordings
- Public domain videos
- Archived web content
- Home videos / Phone videos
I actually use JellyFin for all of these use cases, and also rip my movie collection using Handbrake. Do most people use it for pirated content? Probably.
Not sure how it can be made any more clear than what it is?
Why is it called media, when it seems to only handle movies & series? There are many more types and categories of media. And why is the feature-list on Github just a long list of filters, while it at the same time sells itself as "THE frontend" for whatever it's doing. The small bit of data managment and filters I see on github is on the level of an excel-sheet, which very far from what I would call "THE frontend".
So my question is, what is missing here?
