StashApp Free open-source porn organizer
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I've just recently discovered Stashapp, which is a locally-hosted porn organizer/viewer. It's kind of like Plex for porn. I'm pretty impressed so far. Once you scan your files, you can have import Scene/Studio/Performer metadata.
I'm running it in a docker container on a linux machine, but I believe it's also available for win/mac etc. It's totally free...Be sure to read the docs before you start trying to auto-match/tag your files. I thought I'd try to "wing it" and ended up having to start over...
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@ninesquare Been using it for about a year know. Very good little tool for organising your collection. It's a godsend when it comes to checking to see if I already have something that somebody uploads here though. I often think "I'm sure I've seen that before," and it only takes a couple of seconds with a quick search to confirm if I have it, compared to getting Windows Explorer to search through thousands of files on several drives.
Well, maybe not "little" as such. My library (which I admit I haven't cleaned the duplicates and deleted files out of for a while) currently contains roughly 75000 videos, and with the associated thumbnails, scrubber sprites and all that the Stash data folder is currently standing at a little over 300Gb. It took a few days to scan through everything and create all the previews and such when I first ran it, but as long as you run the scan function on a regular basis it shouldn't take more than a few minutes even if you've grabbed a fair bit.
The video player is a little bit troublesome sometimes, as it struggles with a few videos I have that play perfectly well in VLC, though there aren't too many of those. The player could also do with a few more keybinds for skipping through a video as some of the jumps are a bit long, but I can live with that.
I've been playing around with getting some of the automatic functions to work but not had much luck. What I was hoping to do was run the renamer plugin to modify my files so that they'd include the title, studio and date of production, but I can't seem to get it to work. If you have any luck then please do let me know what you did.
One of the best features is the ability to grab info for a video. I've been through a lot of mine and managed to download the proper titles, tags, descriptions, performers, studios, dates... You definitely need to take some time to do this properly as you can get a lot of erroneous results for some videos, but the result is well worth it.
I also like the ability to group individual scenes together as they appear on the DVDs. It means I can get rid of a lot of files where I had the whole DVD but then discovered all the scenes as separate files in my library too. Now they can play in the same sequence as the DVD, but I can still treat each scene individually too.
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@frostycab
Hi ,
Thanks for all these infos,
i am using Plex for my G-Rated films , and it 's great , but I never got it to work properly for my gay films and scenes.
Looking for alternatives I just found Stash a few days ago, but I did not have more sucess with this app:(
It's certainely a question of parameters: all my films a shown in "scenes" nothing in "Films" , and Stash generated previews for all , but there are not jackets / infos for the films.
Do You have any tipps for me? -
@bigetownky Stash interprets each individual video file as a "scene." The "films" section is intended for organising individual scenes into the full film. For example, you might have all 5 scenes of a DVD as separate files, so what you can do is create a film entry and then add each scene to it. Doing it that way means you can easily search for a particular scene yet still have them grouped together as a single film. You can also add in the DVD covers, description, rating etc for the full DVD while keeping the scene covers and information.
As for getting all the data, it can be a lengthy process. Click on a scene, and then click on EDIT (below the title on the left.) You should then see a blue button with "Scrape with" on it. Click that and select "Stashdb.org" and it will check to see if there's a match in the online database. If there is one you'll get a new popup that shows all the data they have. Check through it all, because sometimes it'll pick up the wrong title or something. If you're happy with everything then just click APPLY. Don't forget to hit SAVE on the left of the screen afterwards. You can do all of this in batches too, but like I said it can be a little bit time consuming at first. It's not too bad as long as you remember to do it ever so often so you're not having to check hundreds of files.
Don't get discouraged if there's no info for the scene you're looking for. Obviously not everything is catalogued yet. There are lots of scrapers you can add, so you can get it to scrape a studio's website rather than the Stash-created one, which is great when you know the source of the video.
I don't pretend to know nearly as much as I'd like to know, but if you join their Discord there are a few really helpful people there. One of the Stash team even spent 3 hours debugging a script that wasn't working for me. (It still doesn't work, or I'm doing something else wrong, but he certainly tried.)
https://discord.gg/JFGrZBev (The link expires after 7 days, so if anyone has trouble let me know and I'll generate a new invite.)
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Referenced by F frostycab
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hi , thanks a lot for all the explainations , gonna try it soon,
Greetz , Alex