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Installation

So far we are offering only a few different variants for the installation. You can choose between Docker or pre-built binaries which are stored on our download mirror and GitHub releases. Maybe we will also provide system packages for the major distributions later if we see the need for it.

If you want to use the videos sub-command you got to install imagemagick as this gets executed by this tool to extract the meta information from videos.

Docker

Generally we are offering the images through quay.io/webhippie/medialize and webhippie/medialize, so feel free to choose one of the providers. Maybe we will come up with Kustomize manifests or some Helm chart.

Binaries

Simply download a binary matching your operating system and your architecture from our downloads or the GitHub releases and place it within your path like /usr/local/bin if you are using macOS or Linux.

Configuration

We provide overall three different variants of configuration. The variant based on environment variables and commandline flags are split up into global values and command-specific values.

Envrionment variables

If you prefer to configure the service with environment variables you can see the available variables below.

Global

MEDIALIZE_LOG_LEVEL

Set logging level, defaults to info

MEDIALIZE_LOG_COLOR

Enable colored logging, defaults to true

MEDIALIZE_LOG_PRETTY

Enable pretty logging, defaults to true

Photos

MEDIALIZE_PHOTOS_SOURCE

Path to source directory

MEDIALIZE_PHOTOS_TARGET

Path to target directory

MEDIALIZE_PHOTOS_RENAME

Rename the source instead of copying, defaults to false

MEDIALIZE_PHOTOS_BY_CHECKSUM

Rename by checksum as fallback, defaults to true

Videos

MEDIALIZE_VIDEOS_SOURCE

Path to source directory

MEDIALIZE_VIDEOS_TARGET

Path to target directory

MEDIALIZE_VIDEOS_RENAME

Rename the source instead of copying, defaults to false

MEDIALIZE_VIDEOS_BY_CHECKSUM

Rename by checksum as fallback, defaults to true

Commandline flags

If you prefer to configure the service with commandline flags you can see the available variables below.

Global

–log-level

Set logging level, defaults to info

–log-color

Enable colored logging, defaults to true

–log-pretty

Enable pretty logging, defaults to true

Photos

–source

Path to source directory

–target

Path to target directory

–rename

Rename the source instead of copying, defaults to false

–by-checksum

Rename by checksum as fallback, defaults to true

Videos

–source

Path to source directory

–target

Path to target directory

–rename

Rename the source instead of copying, defaults to false

–by-checksum

Rename by checksum as fallback, defaults to true

Configuration file

So far we support multiple file formats like json or yaml, if you want to get a full example configuration just take a look at our repository, there you can always see the latest configuration format. These example configs include all available options and the default values. The configuration file will be automatically loaded if it’s placed at /etc/medialize/config.yml, ${HOME}/.medialize/config.yml or $(pwd)/medialize/config.yml.

Usage

The program provides a few sub-commands on execution. The available config methods have already been mentioned above. Generally you can always see a formated help output if you execute the binary similar to something like medialize --help.

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As this project is built with Go you need to install Go first. The installation of Go is out of the scope of this document, please follow the official documentation. After the installation of Go you need to get the sources:

git clone https://github.com/webhippie/medialize.git
cd medialize/

All required tool besides Go itself are bundled by Go modules, all you need is part of the Makfile:

make generate build

Finally you should have the binary within the bin/ folder now, give it a try with ./bin/medialize -h to see all available options.

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