A desktop tool for large photo and video libraries
Media Suite · My own product · 2024
Thousands of photos and videos end up scattered across folders, drives and backups. Nobody knows what is a duplicate, what is missing, or why the hard drive is always full. Media Suite is an all-in-one desktop tool for managing, organizing and processing a media library.
In numbers
- Time: my own library of 1.2 TB sorted in about 40 minutes, a job of around 30 hours by hand.
- Money: 410 GB freed, so no new drive (about €100) and about €4 a month less cloud storage.
- Errors: 14 corrupted backup copies and 3,100 duplicates found, and 0 files lost: nothing is deleted before you see the list.
- Adoption: about 240 downloads on itch.io.
- Scale: 62,000 photos and videos on 4 drives, checked at about 2,000 files a minute.
What it does
- Sorts photos and videos into separate folders automatically.
- Compares backup copies to catch missing or corrupted files.
- Shrinks videos with batch encoding, in one click.
- Resizes or converts images in bulk to free up space.
How it works
It started with my own family’s photos: 1.2 TB on 4 drives, with no idea which copy was the real one. Media Suite is written in Python. It reads the date a photo was taken from the file itself, not from the folder it happens to be in, and sorts by that.
To check a backup, it compares a fingerprint (a checksum) of every file with its copy. A file that is missing, or whose fingerprint differs, is listed before you delete anything. Videos are re-encoded with FFmpeg to a modern format that keeps the same quality at around a third of the size.
Four buttons, one for each job.
On my own library it found 3,100 duplicates, 14 corrupted backup copies and freed 410 GB.
Where it is
Released and available on itch.io.