recently ive started using the johnny decimal system which has helped with the chaos of my folders/files, and for me it has actually worked, everything is sorted in a very organized and meaningful way according to my own subjectivity. except for media. i tried using calibre for books, picard for music, i dont know what i could use for films/tv shows, but everything requires a lot of manual work, i have to verify the metadata is correct, or in some cases that the release is the correct one, sometimes the author isn’t properly rendered, etc. is there a way to automate this? i know using something like radarr helps when you’re downloading but what i am supposed to do with the files i already have?
well, just to be clear, im not shilling for antrhopic here, most AI companies are evil little shits ruining the planet, but I have to admit it has its use cases that are legitimate, and coding is definitely one of them.
that said, once i have it installed in the terminal i just point it at the folder i want to organize, and tell it in layman’s terms what i want it to do, like, “Organize the files and folders into a system that is human-readable and generally makes sense” or I’ll tell it to organize into a specific folder structure, and it will scan all the file and folder names and write scripts (and execute them) to re-arrange them as needed.
it’s accuracy is shockingly high, but it does miss some things, so always double check it’s work.
if there’s any doubt, i tell it to put duplicates and other things to get rid of in a “_trash” folder for me to look through before i commit to deleting them.