Media Companion AlternativesMedia Managers and other similar apps like Media Companion

Media Companion is described as 'Free media manager for organizing movies and TV shows, supports XBMC integration, scrapes metadata and artwork, auto-renames files, and exports HTML details' and is a Media Manager in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Media Companion for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Docker apps. The best Media Companion alternative is GCstar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Media Companion are tinyMediaManager, MediaElch, Ember Media Manager and Mydia.

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  1. GCstar icon
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    Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).

    101 GCstar alternatives

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  2. tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server.

    19 tinyMediaManager alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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  3. MediaElch icon
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    MediaElch is a MediaManager for Kodi. It directly accesses XBMCs database (SQLite and MySQL) and thumbnail cache to store information about movies and TV shows.

    18 MediaElch alternatives

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  4. Ember Media Manager is just that: a media manager. Once configured, it let's you fetch, store, and view various details about your media collection. Movies and TV shows are the type of media that Ember can handle.

    17 Ember Media Manager alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  5. Mydia icon
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    A modern, self-hosted media management platform for tracking, organizing, and monitoring your media library.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  6. Numento icon
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    Numento is a elegant collection software fully customizable that will let you freely choose your method of management. Manage your library (Books,CD, DVD, comic books, games), your coins, your stamps, your postcard, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Dim is a self hosted media manager. With minimal setup, Dim will organize and beautify your media collections, letting you access and play them anytime from anywhere.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  8. ViMediaManager is a media manager for Mac OS X, allowing you to gather, store and manage the information and extra images for your movie, television & anime collections, and can be used on it’s own, or in combination with XBMC, Plex & YAMJ.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  9. Simple Media Manager (SMM) provides a buildin AI assistant to organize media files and expose its capability via MCP server. SMM supports additional features like scrape, subtitle generation and translation, format conversion and donwload videos from media platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • HarmonyOS
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