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I'm making a FOSS all-in-one file converter app - looking for opinions! (files.catbox.moe)
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I'm currently working on a file converter app that lets you easily convert your files in bulk without needing to mess around with 500 settings or confusing command-line apps. It's mostly a replacement for all those "convert X to Y" websites.

This is just a front-end for ffmpeg and imagemagick, but the goal is to make something so simple even my parents could use without uploading sensitive files to shady websites on the internet. I've looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

The project is still very early, but I'd like some feedback:

  1. Does anyone think this project is worth finishing, or are there too many GUI file converters out there already?

  2. What do you think about the UI so far?

Cheers.

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[–] Batmorous@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would also say no your project is very welcome and love that you can do photos and videos at once!! Highly looking forward to it being released in future!!

  1. As another suggestion aside from my other comment it would be cool if we can set individually what each individual photo/video will convert too. Can be for future reworked version of this project. That would help a ton for batch work.

  2. Also, setup a Liberapay to get the most out of donations. Have the link in your app too somewhere so people can donate/see how much you make/how much more you need with a bar saying how much more is needed.

  3. A queue feature to queue multiple photos and videos to be converted then add more to the active queue whenever

  4. A customizeable template feature would be cool too for people who work with specific files a lot. For example setting it to auto convert PNG to JPG, or MP4 TO MP3, etc.