Score Sort

Rank game, movie, or TV files and first-level folders by Metacritic scores. For games with a platform selected or inferred, Score Sort first uses Metacritic's all-time platform catalog, then optionally performs deeper product page lookups with --advanced.

Platform catalogs and filename matches are cached system-wide:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\score-sort\metacritic_platforms.json

On macOS/Linux:

${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-~/.cache}/score-sort/metacritic_platforms.json

Setup

uv run score-sort --help
uv run python -m unittest discover -s tests

Usage

Rank a folder:

uv run score-sort "D:\sorted-roms\Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted)"

Force a fresh platform catalog lookup:

uv run score-sort "D:\sorted-roms\Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted)" --refresh

Sort by low score first, by name, or by reverse name:

uv run score-sort "D:\Games\Nintendo Switch" --sort score --direction asc
uv run score-sort "D:\Games\Nintendo Switch" --sort name
uv run score-sort "D:\Games\Nintendo Switch" --sort name --direction desc

Filter to a score range:

uv run score-sort "D:\sorted-roms\Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted)" --range "1-50"
uv run score-sort "D:\sorted-roms\Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted)" --range ">70"
uv run score-sort "D:\sorted-roms\Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted)" --range "<=40"

Override detection when needed:

uv run score-sort "D:\Media\Movies" --kind movie
uv run score-sort "D:\Media\TV Shows" --kind tv
uv run score-sort "D:\Games\PSX" --kind game --platform ps1

Use parallel lookup workers and advanced Metacritic product-page enrichment:

uv run score-sort "D:\sorted-roms\Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted)" --workers 6 --advanced

CLI

The CLI intentionally keeps a small surface:

folder
--refresh
--sort {score,name}
--direction {asc,desc}
--range RANGE
--kind {game,movie,tv}
--platform PLATFORM
--workers WORKERS
--advanced

First-level child folders are scanned automatically alongside known media file extensions, so there is no separate directory-scanning flag.

Project Structure

src/score_sort/
  cli.py        command-line parsing and orchestration
  core.py       rating models, title matching, Metacritic parsers, cache helpers
  __main__.py   enables python -m score_sort

Notes

Context detection walks up from the scanned folder through its parents. It recognizes media folders such as Movies, TV Shows, Games, and ROMs, plus common platform names like ds, ps3, psx, gba, and longer folder names such as Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Decrypted).

Filename cleaning strips known ROM/media extensions and compound container suffixes such as .nkit.iso, .xiso.iso, and .nkit.rvz before matching.

Supported Metacritic platform slugs include 3ds, dreamcast, game-boy-advance, gamecube, meta-quest, mobile, nintendo-64, nintendo-ds, nintendo-switch, nintendo-switch-2, pc, ps-vita, ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4, ps5, psp, wii, wii-u, xbox, xbox-360, xbox-one, and xbox-series-x.