friendflix

FriendFlix

DEPRECATED

This project is no longer actively developed. Many of the goals can be achieved using other tools. Take a look at:

• WebFS
• blobcache

A media content management system for you and your friends.

Organizing, curating, and properly backing up a large media collection can be difficult. FriendFlix lets you and a network of friends cultivate a virtual library of high quality content, which is both fault-tolerant and easy to maintain.

Getting Started

Install Go

Make sure you have a working go environment set up. https://golang.org/doc/install

After setting up your GOPATH you should add $GOPATH/bin to your PATH in ~/.profile

export PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"

Download & Build FriendFlix

go get this repository.

$ go get -u -d github.com/brendoncarroll/friendflix

Next build and installl the CLI.

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/brendoncarroll/friendflix
$ go install ./cmd/ff/*.go

Now you should be able to run the ff command.

$ ff
NAME:
   FriendFlix - A friendly media content manager

USAGE:
   ff [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
   0.0.0

AUTHOR(S):
   Brendon Carroll

COMMANDS:
     daemon   
     add      
     track    
     help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h     show help
   --version, -v  print the version

Running

FriendFlix is a long running daemon and a CLI tool. The daemon connects to other instances and mounts a fuse filesystem which is used for viewing content. The CLI is used mostly for adding content, and managing the network of friends.

In order to mount the fuse filesystem you will need to create a directory friendflix in your home folder

$ mkdir $HOME/friendflix

You can import content using the add and track commands. track will not "vendor in" the content. If you have a 3MB mp3 and you track it. You will still have 3MB on disk, plus some metadata. If you use the add command FriendFlix will store the content internally. So it will take up 6MB, plus some metadata.

$ ff track ~/Music