What software do you recommend to automate or assist organizing digital media?

My household has a lot of discs that I have been tasked with making available on the local network. Movies, TV shows, music, audio, and even photo negative scans. We live in an area that torrenting is not an option, but making copies of discs you own for personal use if legal. Also, many of these discs are not mainstream media.

I often see recommendations to use radarr or lidarr, but I assumed the “arr” means pirate and that’s not what I’m looking to do.

Currently I am using a mix of MakeMKV, Handbrake, DVDFab, Filebot, and Plex. DVDFab is pretty good with movies, and Filebot is pretty good with TV shows, but it’s still a lot of manual work and even still sometimes Plex grabs the wrong episode. I’m also underwhelmed with the way Filebot treats forced subtitles, and my overall ability to access and label special features off these discs.

I’ve run across a few software that will analyze music to identify it, is there anything similar for movies or TV shows?

I have about 30TB of media scanned in and compressed to HEVC or opus already with another few thousand discs to go. I’d be interested in options to backup/stream ISO’s for movies, but only if I can delete the ads and other junk.

I’m currently using Windows 11 and TNAS, but I can setup my desktop to dual boot Linux if I need to. (Must retain Windows for work). I’d be open to something along the lines of Zappiti but all the links on their website are broken so I assume they are out of business.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Thanks for the tip! Looking into it now that you recommended it. It looks like it is auto renaming files based on their existing names and not based on “fingerprint.” How would this differ from FileBot? If I had a folder that I ripped to (local harddrive) would it watch it, rename and move it to the media server automatically (given I named the episodes appropriately)?

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Afaik you dont even need episode names. You can import manually and sonar should recognize episodes just from numbers.

      By default it doesnt move files, it makes hard links so you end up with 2 files, but they take space only for 1.

      Im not sure is there any other way, but you probably need source files on the server.

      Create folder data/source/movies and data/media/movies, set data folder as root folder in radarr, then add movie you want and import file manually from data/source/movies