Anybody know of an opinionated tool or script that will scan your hard drive looking for aging or at risk media formats and suggests conversions to modern formats?
Bonus if it also validates the file content as well. Backups of broken files are useless. Want to find those as close to breaks as you can so you can restore.
Something like this should exist right?
Audio, images, video.
@limebar #Mistral has a lot of suggestions on this one. I'm assuming you're on Linux.The (simplest) suggestion that fits in one toot is:
sudo apt install mediainfo
find /path/to/scan -type f \( -iname "*.avi" -o -iname "*.wmv" -o -iname "*.rm" -o -iname "*.rmvb" -o -iname "*.mov" -o -iname "*.asf" -o -iname "*.flv" -o -iname "*.m4v" -o -iname "*.3gp" -o -iname "*.wma" -o -iname "*.bmp" -o -iname "*.tiff" \) -exec mediainfo --Inform="General;%Format%" {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
Lime Bar
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