Thursday, December 25, 2025

MediaSlurper - December Updates

Merry Christmas!  It has been years since I've posted stuff here on Christmas Day, but since this is a personal project, this doesn't really count as "work-stuff" (and besides, I haven't been feeling that burned out this year by this time that I need a complete break)

This month, I added a bunch of quality-of-life tweaks to MediaSlurper to address a few issues I'd been increasingly running into, and couldn't delay addressing any more. Oh, and added a cute-as seasonal variant of the mascot, in homage to the VLC icon (which I also adore seeing at this time of year!)

Maybe one day I'll have everything generalised enough to release this tool for others to use too. But in the meantime, it's still only really for my own personal use... Expressions of interest may expedite when I consider making a public release possible...


Among other highlights:

*  Finally have a fix for the SD Importer re-downloading stuff that I'd added captions too, or otherwise deleted

* Ended up simplifying the login prompts for the Android FTP download, so that less keypresses + prompts are needed.  (I may still need to go back and redo the flow for a bad password / timeout case, as I'm often typing the wrong stuff in that case) 

* Fixed the "all" and "pics" targets in the Android FTP downloader, so I can now just use "all" / "aa" to grab everything from my phone that I care about - providing it the connection doesn't die!

* Moved a lot more settings to be set via config files, instead of being hardcoded for my own machines 

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