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So my new open source project is mostly finished. This project is intended to help deal with the morass of naming issues encountered when managing movies on your hard drive, bringing some sanity to the process. Zeeb allows you to intelligently indicate which parts of a filename it should use to look up that movie on IMDB, which parts of the filename it should remove, and which it should save and leave in as saved parts in the final filename(typically things like 720p, 1080p, DTS, Director’s Cut, etc. that indicate some important aspect of the movie or format). Other aspects of managing these files are covered as well, such as renaming external subtitles, and the creation of a .url link that allows you to double click to visit the IMDB page for that movie.

Zeeb was a fun weekend project. The name was chosen for its similarity to another unfinished project I am working on, called Veed (for video feed). I chose to use Adobe AIR as the basis for this project, because I have a lot of recent experience with Adobe Flex for web-based projects, and it just makes the UI aspects that much easier, since I can leverage skills and techniques I have learned from that experience. This also allows the application to run on multiple platforms, those supported by Adobe AIR (OSX and Windows tested, Linux has not been tested). I am somewhat of a holdout on the OSX front: I have a Macbook but I use Windows primarily. I have another blog post about why I haven’t made that particular switch yet (mostly because I build my own computers, and don’t have faith in hackintosh to support all my devices). But my friends and coworkers almost uniformly use OSX, so I wanted something they could use as well.

Anyway, check it out if you get a chance:

Zeeb @ SourceForge

The license is Public Domain, which means you can do anything you want with it…sell it, use parts of it in your project without attribution, etc.