Media Converter And Organizer

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
2. Installation
3. Key Features
4. Future Expansions
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Contact

About The Project

As someone with a lot of photos and videos, most of which being taken on an iPhone, there was a necessity for a converter to be able to view .MOV and .HEIC media on my laptop and/or storage device such as TNAS; while also having to organize those same tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered around dating back all the way to 2004.

Thus, this idea came to my father and I's mind and I went ahead with the execution of it. After some struggles throughout the development process, and running into a lot of issues with the packaging of the software into a .exe file, I was able to pull through and succeed! Furthermore, I decided to document my project on GitHub because I am sure many others are in the same shoes where they are IN NEED of such a software as they do not want to spend 100s on a storage device just to worry about more issues that might come their way, such as monthly subscriptions, limitations on space, etc...

Therefore, as long as you have a laptop or a PC that you are able to use, you can follow the installation steps below to set up this application and take matters into your own hands in cleaning up your media!

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Installation

Until I publish this software on the Microsoft Store (Hopefully), you will have to follow the below installation steps to use this application. I assume you already know how to run some python code and have pip installed.

1. Open Terminal and Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/HamzaKababji/Media-Converter-And-Organizer.git

2. Open Project in VS Code

3. Open Terminal Window in Project Location

4. Install any Required Dependencies in Your Environment

  pip install Pillow

  pip install pillow_heif

  pip install hachoir

You MUST also install ffmpeg.exe by going to this link and then replace the file path in Organizer.py Line 20.

You may need to install more packages depending on your system. If so, follow terminal instructions and search online for the steps to do so.

5. Run the Gui.py file

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Key Features

• Easy to use interface, with a progress bar and terminal pop-up window.
• Converts .MOV or .mov to .mp4
• Converts .HEIC or .heic to .jpeg
• Parses through every single file in a folder (Even in SUBFOLDERS!).
• Organizes all media based on the date taken property.
• If the date taken does not exist, takes the date modified property.
• Works well with network storages!
• Very robust and thoroughly tested system (Tested for 10s of thousands of files).

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Future Expansions

• Explore opportunities to publish on the Microsoft Store.
• Implement Multi-Processing to further optimize performance.
• Possibly implement AI detection for duplicated photos.
• Expand to other operating systems.
• Regularly fix any bugs that might occur.

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See License for more information.

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Contact

Hamza Elkababji - Personal Website - LinkedIn - GitHub - X - hamza.kababji@gmail.com

Project Link: Media Converter And Organizer

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