If "alongside Plex, Jellyfin" would be an intended use-case then I would've involved those names in the README or website.

Of course you can run Media Hoarder alongside them, it won't interfere, but that'd be about it.

a decade? no offense, especially if you're a millennial - ten years isn't that long. I have hundreds of compact disks approaching three times that old. "ad hoc torrent" sounds great, but you're at the whims of seeds, and cease and desist letters. This also doesn't take into account monthly bandwidth "caps".

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.

It's not worth it obsessively, but casually or with-specific-purpose I believe it is worth the time and effort. It uses 'muscles' that I occasionally need, and would rather not let atrophy - primarily related to the enshittification of all things.

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.

Still based on files, however, Media Hoarder doesn't care if you feed it 0-byte files. So yes, you can export your Excel file as such.

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

Agree that rows/columns following normal latin writing feeling more "natural" to me, but a bigger roadblock is that the chosen colors are completely identical for people with the most common type of colorblindness. :(

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.

Feel free to open up an issue on GitHub, maybe we introduce an option on how heatmaps are shown :)

I've been using Jellyfin on Windows server (Arc GPU) for server, Shield for client, it's been working pretty well. What hardware are you using?

First of all, I don't use any arr. From what I see the arr tools are used for obtaining media, less so presenting and providing a UI. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that *arr tools and Media Hoarder might actually go well together.

You're right and I am and was hesitant to put Media Hoarder directly against established solutions on the front page.

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

I can't wait until he's so successful that he abandons all of his original users/customers, and tries to become some sort of third tier streaming solution that can only license movies that used to be completely unknown outside of Walmart "2 DVDs for $5" bargain bins.

Yes, someone (you?) can create a "Kodi .nfo" exporter from the SQLite database.

The library is a pirate's best friend

> So, like, this is for pirated movies and TV shows, right?

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.

Thanks for bringing this up. I hadn't noticed it.

> 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.

My pacifist nature lead the choice and I probably saw that license on some other random projects iirc.

Thanks, I wasn't aware that it might leave room for interpretation or confusion.

Literally the first sentence is "Media Hoarder is THE frontend for your Movie and TV Series collection if you love metadata, filter abilities and easy management." and secondly there is a huge screenshot below that with everything you need to understand.

Not sure how it can be made any more clear than what it is?