Media Organizer

Organize videos, photos, and audio into a folder date-hierarchy format.

CLI Usage

USAGE:
    media_organizer [OPTIONS] --target <TARGET_MEDIA> --destination <DESTINATION_PATH>

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

media_organizer --target media --destination sorted_media

While developing with cargo, forward the flags.

cargo run -p media_organizer -- --target ./media --destination ./sorted_media

Features

• Organize photos, videos, and audio 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. ("tiff", "TIFF", "heif", "HEIF", "HEIC", "heic", "AVIF", "avif", "jpeg", "jpg", "JPEG", "JPG", "HEIC", "heic", "PNG", "png", "webp", "WEBP")

  • Video organized based off of FFMPEG creation dates.

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

  • Audio organized based off of ID3 recorded dates.

    • Whitelisted audio file types. ("mp3", "MP3", "wav", "WAV", "aiff", "AIFF")

  • 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 --destination flag.

• Organize specific file types. Default to any filetype.

• Option to copy files or move files.

• Creation of file paths from file creation date as an organizer fallback.

• Exposed media_info as a new crate.

Dependencies

For ffmpeg-next package, follow this guide.

The version of ffmpeg-next should correlate to the version of ffmpeg installed on the system.

Roadmap

• option to remove original folder to trash
• more file metadata wrapper options
• individually modify file metadata and tag metadata (exif, ffmpeg, id3)
• tests