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CLUSTER DESKTOP-MEDIA-METADATA · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-09-01

Media metadata library organizers

A cluster of desktop tools that scrape and organize media metadata from local or network storage, rename files by matching online databases, and build searchable libraries. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from (only 2 dated entries pre-index). Traction is led by EmbyMetaEditor (8 stars), followed by Meta-Pic-Interrogator (2 stars) and PersonalMediaManager (1 star).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2025: 1FEB 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 2
AUG 2025OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 2 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01EmbyMetaEditor8★24 days—hobbyWindows tool that manages Emby media libraries by scraping metadata, actor avatars, and missing catalog numbers through a local web interface.
  2. 02Meta-Pic-Interrogator2★11 days—hobbyDesktop app that describes images with a vision model and saves the descriptions as metadata to help catalog media libraries.
  3. 03PersonalMediaManager1★1 moliveWindows tool that automatically organizes local media files by identifying movies and TV shows, fetching metadata, and renaming them for media server libraries.
  4. 04vault-scrape0★4 days—hobbyDesktop app that scrapes and organizes media metadata from local or network storage into a searchable library.
  5. 05tv-media-renamer0★26 days—hand-codedhobbyDesktop app that renames movie and TV episode files by parsing titles, years, seasons, and episode numbers from filenames.
  6. 06NetSkrabb0★10 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that scrapes show metadata from online databases and renames local media files into standardized, organized archival filenames.
  7. 07Plex-Librarian0★1 mo—hobbyAutomated Plex media organizer that renames and files downloaded content into the expected library structure, holding uncertain items for manual review.
  8. 08FileBot0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that renames and organizes media files by matching against online databases and updating metadata.
  9. 09Hydrus0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop media manager that tags, organizes, and downloads images, videos, and audio into a searchable local database from various online sources.

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