The blueboxx from txhammer68

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BlueBoxx Media Manager App

Simple python/qml app for organizing movies/tv shows
Using json arrays for media lookup
Lighweight and Fast
Designed for 1920x1080 screens
This is a framework for your existing media
Create an account on https://www.themoviedb.org/
On TMDB create a media list one for movies, another for tv series of all the shows you have...
- Also not a watchlist, but a unique list for each type of media
- Make note of the lists ID's
Once finished with creating media lists
- API Docs https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/getting-started
- Get a feel for the API, with your media titles
- Edit tmdb.py enter api credentials and lists id's
- Run tmdb.py to download media info to movies.json, tv.json
  - Could be long download time, depending on amount of media you have...test first
- Includes title, overview, media poster, backdrop image, trailers.

Linux, preferrably KDE Plasma distro
Python 3, python3-pyqt5, python3-pyqt5.quick, PyQt5.QtCore, PyQt5.QtGui, PyQt5.QtQml, PyQt5.QtWidgets
mpv, vlc or other media player

Launch app with python3 blueboxx.py
Now Showing Button displays 5 random movies
Movies Button displays all movies with search ability, clicking movie poster will display additonal media info
TV Button shows all TV series, clicking tv series poster will display additional tv series info
Search by movie title
Advanced Search by movie genre or movie decade
ESC key will quit the app and any other popup dialogs

Change locations for your json arrays, movie, tv and trailer locations in
- BlueBoxx.qml
Within json array, media links are predefined based on "media title.mp4", change for your needs
Why Blueboxx, cause Redbox provided most of the titles...
https://github.com/txhammer68/blueboxx
Based on Qt5, but should work ok with Qt6

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