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Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by slightwinder »

diggan wrote: post #29
slightwinder wrote: post #25

This really needs some explanation, in text, of what it's actually doing and what media means here.

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?

This is not really explaining the purpose. Does it scan video-Files to collect entries? Or is it manual input? Can I import data from somewhere? Does it play files? Does it integrate into netflix&co. to gather new entries? And let's not talk about more special features..

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?

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by diggan »

slightwinder wrote: post #31
diggan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This is not really explaining the purpose. Does it scan video-Files to collect entries? Or is it manual input? Can I import data from somewhere? Does it play files? Does it integrate into netflix&co. to gather new entries? And let's not talk about more special features.. 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…

> This is not really explaining the purpose. Does it scan video-Files to collect entries? Or is it manual input? Can I import data from somewhere? Does it play files? Does it integrate into netflix&co. to gather new entries? And let's not talk about more special features..

Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's not listed as a feature.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#34

Post by yegle »

MK2k wrote: post #26
CrypticShift wrote: post #24

Would it be possible to import titles as a text list, instead of requiring files? 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! :)

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

Sounds like you can generate a folder of files from an input excel using FUSE.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#35

Post by diggan »

cormorant wrote: post #32

So, like, this is for pirated movies and TV shows, right? This and all the alternatives mentioned in the comments too? Or are people really ripping DVDs and Blu-Rays from huge personal collections?

> 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.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#37

Post by RajT88 »

diggan wrote: post #35
cormorant wrote: post #32

So, like, this is for pirated movies and TV shows, right? This and all the alternatives mentioned in the comments too? Or are people really ripping DVDs and Blu-Rays from huge personal collections?

> 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.

Can confirm I know some folks who rip their DVD/BluRay collection to stream in the home.

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.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#38

Post by kupopuffs »

cormorant wrote: post #32

So, like, this is for pirated movies and TV shows, right? This and all the alternatives mentioned in the comments too? Or are people really ripping DVDs and Blu-Rays from huge personal collections?

The library is a pirate's best friend

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#39

Post by schiffern »

pimlottc wrote: post #11

This looks cool but I was thrown by how the heatmaps were organized; having seasons as rows and episodes as columns would be more natural to me.

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.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #21
MK2k wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It is so strange to me when people get downvoted for suggesting a possible solution is to volunteer some effort. HN is all about open source until someone mentions creating a PR or even just a simple issue. Is this forum the definitive spot for complaining about software? 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 l…

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