Automedia
Dev tools
media library maintenance
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Useful idea and open source sharing appreciated.
From 3 comments
Great idea! Thanks for building and sharing it; looking fwd to looking closer at it after Mother's Day!
chrisweekly on HNGreat work! Thanks for sharing and making it Open Source!
saamerm on HNAwesome tool! Thank you :) May be a nice complement to my Video Hub App - browse, search, preview, and organize videos on Win, Mac, and Linux. https://videohubapp.com/ &…
yboris on HN
Bitrot detection is a real concern for old drives.
From 3 comments
This is pretty good! Detecting bitrot is fine, can also be done by storing a MD5/SHA256 of the file content. `md5sum <file>` barfs if its unable to read the file from disk.…
sirius87 on HNCurious as to how frequently bitrot shows up? Has anyone modeled this in terms of bits flipped per gigabyte per year or something like this? I have about half a terabyte of…
tomc1985 on HNI'm currently migrating my media library from git-annex to a self-written replacement, and have encountered maybe ~300 instances of bitrot so far (out of ~5 TB). Detected through…
jmillikin on HN
Objections
Hashes or checksums would be simpler than ffmpeg test decoding.
From 2 comments
hi, I don't understand why they use ffmpeg for bitrot checking and not a simple hash checksum or a merkle tree.
daedalus2027 on HNThis is pretty good! Detecting bitrot is fine, can also be done by storing a MD5/SHA256 of the file content. `md5sum <file>` barfs if its unable to read the file from disk.…
sirius87 on HN
PAR2 files use significant extra storage.
From 2 comments
I don't have hard and fast numbers but with ~120TB of media I can tell you I'm pretty sure I've had it happen or I've suffered from raid issues, I have no way to tell which. I've…
joshstrange on HNAdding/verifying hashes on media might not be a bad feature to add for those who don't want to burn the extra space required for PAR2. I run w/two extra parity disks on unRAID,…
mmastrac on HN
Requests
Add hash (MD5/SHA256) verification support.
From 3 comments
Adding/verifying hashes on media might not be a bad feature to add for those who don't want to burn the extra space required for PAR2. I run w/two extra parity disks on unRAID,…
mmastrac on HNI don't have hard and fast numbers but with ~120TB of media I can tell you I'm pretty sure I've had it happen or I've suffered from raid issues, I have no way to tell which. I've…
joshstrange on HNI tried to make the tool easily pluggable so I wager someone could add hash support pretty easily. I might take a shot at it if I find some time as others seem to be interested…
mmastrac on HN
Alert users when a file changes rather than only checking on demand.
From 1 comment
I don't have hard and fast numbers but with ~120TB of media I can tell you I'm pretty sure I've had it happen or I've suffered from raid issues, I have no way to tell which. I've…
joshstrange on HN
Questions
How to make and organise lossless rips and parity files for video archives.
From 2 comments
What’s a good method for making the original lossless rips, making parity files, and keeping them organized for use with Automedia? Is there something like Calibre for…
aspenmayer on HNI appreciate these recommendations for audio content; I’m mainly looking for resources for archiving video content.
aspenmayer on HN
How frequently bitrot actually occurs.
From 1 comment
Curious as to how frequently bitrot shows up? Has anyone modeled this in terms of bits flipped per gigabyte per year or something like this? I have about half a terabyte of…
tomc1985 on HN
Alternatives named
ZFS or btrfs with RAID for filesystem-level integrity.
From 2 comments
Did you consider storing your media in a ZFS pool?
Wowfunhappy on HNThis is pretty good! Detecting bitrot is fine, can also be done by storing a MD5/SHA256 of the file content. `md5sum <file>` barfs if its unable to read the file from disk.…
sirius87 on HN
MusicBrainz Picard for audio metadata tagging.
From 1 comment
MusicBrainz Picard will do metadata tagging and some basic directory organization. It's what I use to create my music directories. With a great metadata manager like that, any…
mmastrac on HN
Synology data integrity feature.
From 1 comment
I don't have hard and fast numbers but with ~120TB of media I can tell you I'm pretty sure I've had it happen or I've suffered from raid issues, I have no way to tell which. I've…
joshstrange on HN