MKube - Minimalist Media Manager

Yet another media manager, but better (?).

MKube aims to be a complete (and free) media manager in your terminal.

State of development

Currently MKube is at most a PoC, and lots of changes await it. Nonetheless, here a small list of features, MKube is expected to provide today or in the future :

• Local libraries
• Remote libraries (currently supporting FTP & SMB)
• Movie listing
• Movie search (using TheMovieDB)
• Metadata retrieval (using ffmpeg)
• NFO generation (for Kodi only)
• Persistent configuration
• Movie details
• Movie Editor
• Artwork retrievals
• Saga support (#15)
• TV Show support (#5)

Build & Run

MKube is written in Rust and currently built using Nix (to allow easy build on multiple arch).

Supported platforms

Until a first release, MKube will not be tested on any other machine than mine, moreover the main branch might break from time to time.

My long term strategy is to support mainly Linux platforms (amd64, arm64).
MacOS might work (as dependencies at least exist there) but it will not be tested.
I am unsure if Windows will get supported one day, even partially.

Using Cargo

MKube currently requires the following dependencies (but it might not be limited to these):

• ffmpeg(-dev)
• openssl
• libdbus (secrets feature, enabled by default)
• libsmbclient (smb feature, disabled by default)

Then, just build it: cargo build --release

Note: You might need to install a recent (or nightly) rust toolchain to build MKube. At the time of writting, MKube targets Rust 1.71.0.

Using Nix

MKube uses Nix Flakes to describe its build steps, therefore you might need to enable flakes (experimental-features) before building MKube using nix build.

Note: For developement, you should prefer to run nix develop to create a shell adapted to rust development.

Showcase

Inspirations

The Linux community is lacking a good media manager, that can support remote libraries. Some good media managers exist, like tinyMediaManager but lack features or enforce to buy premium version to access all their features, including some essential ones. MKube is an attempt to resolve this issue I had myself.

Licensing

Licensed under the EUPL v. 1.2 only.
Note that the EUPL v1.2 license is compatible with many other recognized licenses (see appendix).

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