tinyMediaManager

Movie fans often have personal collections of their own, where they keep many of their favorite titles. Even in the era of streaming, it's not too rare to find someone who prefers to store films locally: bitrate concerns are valid, and owning physical media, while in decline, doesn't look like it's going away anytime.

If you happen to store your films on internal or external drives, you've got to manage them somehow. tinyMediaManager is there to help: thoroughly organize your movies and TV shows through its comprehensive scraping and editing functions.

While its name may nudge you to think that the tool is geared to offer some basic media managing functions, the reality is that it's much more than that. While the program may take a bit to get going — owing to the initial set-up — it all makes sense once you get acquainted with its workings.

The interface adopts a functional, if also a bit minimal, look where most of the options are nested in menus and submenus. Upon adding your source folders, the recognized media files will appear under the Movies and TV shows tabs. From there, you can organize and group everything: the Search & Scrape feature can look up details about the chosen titles and update the information panel.

The function uses themoviedb.org to scrape data about the movies: from its original title, cast, plot, release date, genre, and all the way to its banner, user rating, certification, the tool will make your film collection seem like an intricate database of sorts.

Upon right-clicking a title, a context menu will open with additional options. This way, you can download its artworks, read data from its NFO, and there's also an Enhanced editing capability, which opens up a lot more doors to particularization.

You can edit multiple films at a time, re-fetch the IMDb rating for any of your chosen movies, update the media information, as well as find movie sets for the given selection. Movie sets is a nice feature to have: essentially, you can group movies after a criterion. Say, if you want to group all the movies taking place in the Lord of the Rings universe, you can do that here.

If you're looking to organize your film collection, it's worth giving tinyMediaManager a shot. Its functions facilitate managing your titles with ease, so acclimating to this tool will be worth your while.