Thema: CD/DVD/Film-Verwaltungsprogramme & Tools

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Manage large media collections and re-organize them using tags instead of folders that you can share via custom servers with this application.

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Changelog

    Crashes:

    I messed the mpv update up in v499. my golden rule is never to put out bleeding-edge library updates, but without thinking I gave everyone a dll from late august. it turns out this thing was pretty crashy, and many users were getting other unusual behaviour as well. it seems like people on very new versions of Windows were mostly ok, but a little instability, whereas some older-Windows users were unable to start the client or could boot but couldn't load mpv at all. these latter cases were plagued with other problems. thanks to user help, we discovered it was the newer mpv dll causing all the problems, and an older one, from early May, seems to be fine
    So, I am rolling back the mpv in the windows releases. the 'v3' 2022-08-29 I bundled in 499 was causing several users serious problems, possibly because of the advanced 'v3' chipset instructions or related advanced compiler tech. for the Qt6 release, we are going back to 2022-05-01, which several users report as stable, and for the Qt5 we are rolling back to the 498 version, 2021-02-28, which is back to mpv-1.dll. Since Qt5 users are increasingly going to be Win 7, we'll go super safe. THEREFORE, Qt5 extract users will want to perform a clean install this week: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/getting_started_installing.html#clean_installs
    (you can alternately just delete the now-surplus mpv-2.dll in your install directory, but a full clean install is good to do from time to time, so may as well)
    Updated the sqlite dll in the windows release to 2022-05, and the exe in the db directory to 2022-09
    Rewrote how some internal MPV events are signalled to Qt. they now have their own clean custom event types rather than piggy-backing on some bad old hydrus pubsub code
    I either fixed a rare boot crash related to the popup messaging system, maybe exclusively on macOS, or I improved it and we'll get a richer error now

    Tag sibling search:

    If you search explicitly for a tag that has a better sibling (one way this can happen is when loading up an old favourite search), the client will now auto-convert that tag to the ideal in the search code and give you results for the siblinged tag
    This started off as a predicted five minute thing and spilled out into a multi-hour saga of me realising some tag sibling search code was A) wrong in edge cases and B) slow in edge cases. I have subtly reshaped how core file-tag search works in the client so that it consults each tag service in turn based on its siblings and its mappings, rather than mixing them together. this does not matter for 99.98% of cases, but if you have some weird overlapping siblings across different services, you should now get the correct results. also, some optimisations are more effective, so any instance of searching for tags on small tag services on 'all known tags' is now a bit quicker
    Big brain: please note the logic here is complex, and I have not yet updated autocomplete counting to handle this situation. if you type 'cat' and get 'cat (3)' from the three 'cat' tags on 'my tags', but 'cat' is siblinged to 'species:feline' on a big service like the PTR, it will still say (3), rather than (403) or whatever from the auto-corrected PTR results. I have a plan to fix this in a future cleanup round

    Tag subtags and namespace wildcards:

    Searching for 'samus aran' no longer delivers files that have 'character:samus aran'. the subtag->namespace logic no longer applies. this was a fun idea from the very start of the program, but it was never all that useful as default behaviour and added several headaches, now eliminated. if you wish to perform this search going forward, please enter '*:samus aran', which is now an acceptable wildcard input
    Tag lookup is unaffected. typing 'samus aran' will still provide 'character:samus aran' as a tag to choose from
    A heap of rinky-dink counting logic went along with this, such as providing tag search results like ('character:samus aran (100)', 'samus aran (100-105)'), where it tried to predict how many results would come with the unnamespaced search. this no longer exists, and a decent bit of CPU is now saved in any large tag search
    Wildcard searching works on similar rules now, so if you enter 'sa*s ar', you will see 'character:samus aran' as a result in the tag list, but searching for it will not give results with 'character:samus aran'. again, enter '*:sa*s ar*' to search for all namespaces (which is now provided as a quick suggestion any time you enter an unnamespaced wildcard), or enter 'character:sa*s ar*' explicitly
    'system:tag as number' also now follows similar rules, so if you leave the namespace field blank, it will search unnamespaced numbers. it now supports namespace wildcards, so you can enter '*' to get the old behaviour. the placeholder text on the namespace input now states this
    'system:number of tags' now uses the same UI as 'system:tag as number', where you enter '*' as the namespace to mean all namespaces, rather than checking a box

    Misc:

    All tag, namespace, and wildcard search predicates are now properly editable from the active search box. shift+double-click or select from the right-click menu, and you now get a simple text input alongside any system predicate panels. previously, this would only offer you a button to invert the tag to -tag and vice versa. now, you can add or remove the '-' and '*' characters yourself info to freely convert between tags, namespace:anything, and wildcard search predicates (issue #1235)
    Thanks to a user, you can now add '{#}' to an export filename pattern to get the '#' column in your filename (useful if you want to export files in the order they are currently in on the page)
    Furthermore, if you delete items from the manual file export window, the '#' column now recalculates itself to stay contiguous and in order (previously, it left gaps)
    Fixed a bug when deleting siblings on a local tags service. sorry for the trouble!
    On manage siblings, when you remove, add, or replace a pair on a local tags service, you will now get a simple 'note' reason informing you more on what is going on. the 'REPLACEMENT:' thing recently added to tag repositories should now work for you too
    When a downloader or similar adds files to a page, and you have at least one existing file selected, the status bar now updates correctly
    Fixed a critical issue that was affecting some users with damaged similar file search trees. when starting similar file search tree rebalancing maintenence, their client would go into an infinite loop and spool the cyclic branch into an ever-growing journal file in their temp directory until their system drive briefly ran out of space. sorry for the trouble, and thank you for the excellent reports that helped to figure this out (issue #1239)
    The similar files search tree rebalance maintenance now detects more sorts of damaged trees and handles them gracefully, and the full tree regeneration clears out any damaged maintenance information too
    Fixed another problem with the tree branch maintenance system when the root was accidentally queued for branch rebalance
    When you right-click->copy a wildcard search tag, it now copies the actual wildcard text, not the display text with (wildcard search) over the top
    I added ',' to the list of non-decodable characters in the hacky URL Class encoding/decoding routine. sites that use an encoded comma (%_2C) for regular path components or query parameters should now work
    A user has fixed a regex parsing problem in the predicate parser for system:hash
    OR search predicates now sort their sub-predicates on construction/editing, meaning the label is always of set order, and they can now compare with and hence reliably nullify each other
    The manage logins dialog now boots a little taller
    The main gui tab bar may look a bit nicer/more appropriate in macOS
    Updated the help text on gui pages where it talks about overflowing rows of tabs, which auto-scroll even worse in Qt6, hooray

    Client api:

    The client api now handles request disconnects better. the hydrus server code benefits from the same engine improvements
    The 'twisted.internet.defer.CancelledError' logspam is cleaned up!
    If a client disconnects before a client api autocomplete tag search or a file search is complete, that database job is now cancelled quickly just like when you type new characters in the client UI or stop a slow search
    If you are a client api dev, please let me know how this works out IRL. I'm not 100% sure what a 'disconnect' means in this context, but if you want to develope autocomplete quick lookup as the user types, and you have a way clientside to cancel/kill an ongoing request before it is complete, please give it a go and let me know if this all works. cancelled requests don't make a log record right now, but you should see the client's db lock free up instantly. at the very least, I have the proper infrastructure for this now, so I can add more/better 'cancel' hooks as we need them

    Uninteresting code cleanup:

    Refactored the file note mapping db code to a new module
    Refactored the file service pathing db code (this does directory structures and multihashes for ipfs) to a new module
    Refactored some tag display, tag filtering, and tag autocomplete calls down to appropriate db modules
    Refactored and extended some tag sibling database methods and names to clarify whether they were working with ids or strings

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https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

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Whats new:>>

    Fixed:

    Due to a build issue, the initial Windows release wouldn't boot

https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

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A management tool for all the media files on your computer that features advanced search functionality and filtering capabilities.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

    Column mode for displaying additional information to increase clarity
    Added genre as a search option, so you can also search in this field with the available operators (not just selection)
    After opening the config menu, the album explorer and user playlist are not automatically displayed again
    Fixed tracknr display error when it was only present in the extended tag
    Improved display for group and play counter

https://www.peter-ebe.de/MediaArchive/info/mediaarchive_features_en.php

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Changelog

    Misc:

    The Linux build gets the same 'cannot boot' setuptools version hotfix as last week's Windows build. sorry if you could not boot v500 on Linux! macOS never got the problem, I think because it uses pyoxidizer instead of pyinstaller
    Fixed the error/crash when clients running with PyQt6 (rather than the default Qt6, PySide6) tried to open file or directory selection dialogs. there was a slight method name discrepancy between the two libraries in Qt6 that we had missed, and it was sufficiently core that it was causing errors and best, crashes at worst
    Fixed a common crash caused after several options-saving events such as pausing/resuming subscriptions, repositories, import/export folders. thank you very much to the users who reported this, I was finally able to reproduce it an hour before the release was due. the collect control was causing the crash--its ability to update itself without a client restart is disabled for now
    Unfortunately, it seems Deviant Art have locked off the API we were using to get nice data, so I am reverting the DA downloader this week to the old html parser, which nonetheless still sems to work well. I expect we'll have to revisit this when we rediscover bad nsfw support or similar--let me know how things go, and you might like to hit your DA subs and 'retry ignored'
    Fixed a bad bug where manage rating dialogs that were launched on multiple files with disagreeing numerical ratings (where it shows the stars in dark grey), if okayed on that 'mixed' rating, rather than leaving them untouched, were resetting all those files back to the minimum allowed star value. I do not know when this bug came in, it is unusual, but I did do some rating state work a few weeks ago, so I am hoping it was then. I regret this and the inconvenience it has caused
    If you manually navigate while the media viewer slideshow is running, the slideshow timer now resets (e.g. if you go 'back' on an image 7 seconds into a 10 second slideshow, it will show the previous image for 10 seconds, not 3, before moving on again)
    Fixed a type bug in PyQt hydrus when you tried to seek an mpv video when no file was loaded (usually happens when a seek event arrives late)
    When you drop a hydrus serialised png of assorted objects onto a multi-column list, the little error where it says 'this list does not take objects of type x' now only shows once! previously, if your png was a list of objects, it could make a separate type error for each in turn. it should now all be merged properly
    This import function also now presents a summary of how many objects were successfully imported
    Updated all ui-level ipfs multihash fetching across the program. this is now a little less laggy and uses no extra db in most cases
    Misc code and linter warning cleanup

    Tag right-click:

    The 'edit x' entry in the tag right-click menu is now moved to the 'search' submenu with the other search-changing 'exclude'/'remove' etc.. actions
    The 'edit x' entry no longer appears when you only select invertible, non-editable predicates
    If you right-click on a -negated tag, the 'search' menu's action label now says 'require samus aran' instead of the awkward 'exclude -samus aran'. it will also say the neutral 'invert selection' if things get complicated

    Notes logic improvements:

    If you set notes to append on conflict and the existing note already contains the new note, now no changes will be made (repeatedly parsing the same conflcting note now won't append it multiple times)
    If you set notes to rename on conflict and the note already exists on another name, now no changes will be made (i.e. repeatedly parsing the same conflicting note won't create (1), (2), (3)... rename dupes)

    Client api:

    /add_tags/search_tags gets a new parameter, 'tag_display_type', which lets you either keep searching the raw 'storage' tags (as you see in edit contexts like the 'manage tags' dialog), or the prettier sibling-processed 'display' tags (as you see in read contexts like a normal file search page)
    /get_files/file_metadata now returns 'ipfs_multihashes' structure, which gives ipfs service key(s) and multihashes
    If you run /get_files/search_files with no search predicates, or with only tags that do not parse correctly so you end up with no tags, the search now returns nothing, rather than system:everything. I will likely make this call raise errors on bad tags in future
    The client api help is updated to talk about these
    There's also unit tests for them
    Client api version is now 33

    Popup messages:

    The background workings of the popup toaster are rewritten. it looks the same, but instead of technically being its own window, it is now embedded into the main gui as a raised widget. this should clear up a whole heap of jank this window has caused over the years. for instance, in some OSes/Window Managers, when a new subscription popup appeared, the main window would activate and steal focus. this annoying thing should, fingers crossed, no longer happen
    I have significantly rewritten the layout routine of the popup toaster. beyond a general iteration of code cleanup, popup messages should size their width more sensibly, expand to available space, and retract better after needing to grow wide
    Unfortunately, some layout jank does remain, mostly in popup messages that change height significantly, like error tracebacks. they can sometimes take two frames to resize correctly, which can look flickery. I am still doing something 'bad' here, in Qt terms, and have to hack part of the layout update routine. let me know what else breaks for you, and I will revisit this in future
    The 'BUGFIX: Hide the popup toaster when the main gui is minimised/loses focus' checkboxes under options->popups are retired. since the toaster is now embedded into the main gui just like any search page, these issues no longer apply. I am leaving the two 'freeze the popup toaster' checkboxes in place, just so we can play around with some virtual desktop issues I know some users are having, but they may soon go too
    The popup toaster components are updated to use Qt signals rather than borked object callables
    As a side thing, the popup toaster can no longer grow taller than the main window size

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tinyMediaManager is a compact tool designed to scan your movie folders and organize the information into multiple categories. The program is able to detect the movie files and retrieve posters and other information form IMDB or other websites.

You can use this program to sort your collection, retrieve movie trailers and additional content with minimum effort.

Freeware

Changelog

    Added the ID of the movie/TV show to the search results #1824
    Added a renamer token for TV show genres and TV show/episode ratings #1874
    Also delete unwanted folders on rename #1692
    TV episodes: also detect IDs from filename
    Changing the user rating will remove it from the ratings
    Added regular epression based skip folders for TV shows #1402
    Added a path based filter for movies and TV shows #1891
    Do not check title token for valid episode name pattern #1870
    Fied timing of KodiRPC calls #1831
    (TVDB) allow using a subscriber API key & pin
    (TMDB) matching of episode numbers #1884
    Update movie media source on echanged video files
    Remove all scraped IDs when changing episode/season numbers
    Upgrade MediaSource BluRay to UHD-BluRay, if video specs say so
    (TVDB) also scrape certification data for TV shows
    KodiRPC: better handling of URIs for matching (stackoverflow) #1903
    Read real subtitle format via mediainfo

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http://www.tinymediamanager.org/

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A mix between an encyclopedia of movies, a video collection manager and a store catalog, this app will prove useful to all movie lovers.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

    [NEW] added 700 movies & series
    [NEW] improved the movie recommendations

http://www.coollector.com/

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Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Always wanted to manage all your collections in one product? You want a product you can customize to your needs? Your search ends here! Using Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself.

- Platform independent and completely portable
- Highly customizable and feature rich.
- Audio, software, book, movie and photo collection cataloger
- Retrieve information from services like Amazon.com, Imdb.com, Softpedia and MusicBrainz.
- Optional internal web server and web GUI.
- Import file information (mp3, divx, xvid, ..)
- Loan registration.
- PDF and HTML reporting.
- Create new modules to, for example, maintain your stamp collection.
- Available translations: Italian, German, Dutch, English, Spanish and French.

License: Open Source

Changelog

[New requirements]

- Java Second Edition version 11 (64 bit) or higher.

[Fixed]

- Java 18 incompatibility issues have been fixed.
- Backup and Restore has been fixed. It now uses Java standard functionality to create and restore backups.
- Server to client communication has been fixed. The old implementation has been removed and server to client communication has been replaced with a Gson-backed functionality. The old code used a by now obsolete library. Gson is well maintained and it allowed me to pick and select if and how items, pictures, etc are communicated between the client and the server. This also means that the speed has been improved significantly.
- Image server is back up again (old implementation was not compatible with the new Java version)
- Various small compatibility issues have been fixed.
- e-Book import has been fixed.

[Changed / Updated]

- Java version support has been changed from Java v1.7 to Java Second Edition v18 (!)
- Upgraded Log4J to the latest version. The old library was a huge security risk and had to be replaced.
- Build process has been moved to Maven (thanks to: flag-courier).
- Code has been moved from net.datacrow to org.datacrow.
- Java Help was upgraded to 2.05
- jAudiotagger was upgraded to 2.2.5
- Matroska File parser has been upgraded to 2.3.1
- MP4 Parser has been upgraded to 1.9.41.2 (patch 2)
- Bouncycastle has been upgraded to 1.7
- Jacksum has been upgraded to 3.1
- JTattoo has been upgraded to 1.6.13
- TheMovieDB API has been upgraded to 4.3
- Cobra HTML parser has been replaced by jSoup
- Jasper Reports has been upgraded to 6.20
- HSQL DB has been upgraded to 2.7.0
- JSON-IO library has been dropped (too old)
- Tomcat Embedded has been dropped and has been replaced with the latest version of Jetty. Jetty is solely used as a web service for the hosting of images when making use of the Data Crow server edition.
- Libraries not mentioned have been dropped and replaced.
- Code optimizations to bring Data Crow's code in line with the latest version of Java.
- Tika has been upgraded to upgraded to version 2.4.1.
- PDFBox has been upgraded to 2.0.26. There a version 3 release candidate which I wanted to adopt but it's not compatible with Tika 2.4.1.
- Added better ISBN / EAN management and incorporated this into the e-book file import and various other places.
- Image type support has been improved and now allows for the following file types to be imported / used as picture:
bmp, tf8, pic, rgbe, tif, ico, sgi, ham8, ham, wbmp, pam, pict, jbig2, ilbm, tpic, png,
raw, JBIG2, pfm, lbm, pbm, psb, rgb8, emf, psd, cur, deep, tiff, pntg, gif, btiff, mac,
tga, wmf, xyze, btf, pgm, dcx, jpeg, pct, jpg, pcx, svg, iff, rle, ppm, icns, hdr, jb2,
JB2, db
- Apache Batik has been been upgraded to version 1.14
- Added TwelveMonkeys ImageIO libraries for easier support of other image types

[Removed]

- The web module has been dropped for now. It would need to be completely rebuild to
run successfully on the latest version of Java. This will be rebuild at a later stage.
- The following online services have been removed; Bol.com, Amazon.com (is now a paid for service only, not a fan of Amazon), Imdb.com (paid for service), Musicbrainz (no longer active), discogs.com (requested for a new API key), ISBN db (now a paid for service), moviemeter (needs to be investigated, was already not working in the old version back in 2019), the games db (will be replaced with MobyGames).

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http://www.datacrow.net/

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Changelog

    Autocomplete dropdown:

    The floating version of the autocomplete dropdown gets the same backend treatment the media hovers and the popup toaster recently received--it is no longer its own window, but now a normal widget floating inside its parent. it should look pretty much the same, but a variety of bugs are eliminated. clients with many search pages open now only have one top level window, rather than potentially hundreds of hidden ones
    If you have turned off floating a/c windows because of graphical bugs, please try turning them back on today. the checkbox is under options->search.
    As an additional consequence, I have decided to no longer allow 'floating' autocomplete windows in dialogs. I never liked how this worked or looked, overlapping the apply/cancel buttons, and it is not technically possible to make this work with the new tech, so they are always embedded in dialogs now. the related checkbox in options->search is gone as a result
    If you ok or cancel on the 'OR' buttons, focus is now preserved back to the dropdown
    A bunch of weird interwindow-focus-juggling and 'what happens if the user's window manager allows them to close a floating a/c dropdown'-style code is cleared out. with simpler logic, some flicker jank is simply eliminated
    If you move the window around, any displaying floating a/c dropdowns now glide along with them; previously it updated at 10fps
    The way the client swaps a new thumbnail grid in when results are loaded or dismissed is faster and more atomic. there is less focus-cludge, and as a result the autocomplete is better at retaining focus and staying displayed as changes to the search state occur
    The way scroll events are caught is also improved, so the floating dropdown should fix its position on scroll more smoothly and capably

    Date system predicates:

    This affects system:import time; :modified time; and :last viewed
    Updated the system:time UI for time delta so you are choosing 'before', 'since', and '+/- 15% of'
    Updated the system:time UI for calendar date so you are choosing 'before', 'since', 'the day of', and '+/- a month of' rather than the ugly and awkward '<' stuff
    Updated the calendar calculations with calendar time-based system predicates, so '~=' operator now does plus or minus one month to the same calendar day, no matter how many days were in that month (previously it did +/- 30 days)
    The system predicate parser now reassigns the '=' in a given 'system:time_type = time_delta' to '~='

    Misc:

    'sort files by import time' now sorts files correctly even when two files were imported in the same second. thanks to the user who thought of the solution here!
    The 'recent' system predicates you see listed in the 'flesh out system pred' dialogs now have a 'X' button that lets you remove them from the recent/favourites
    Fixed the crash that I disabled some code for last week and reactivated the code. the collect-by dropdown is back to refreshing itself whenever you change the settings in options->sort/collect. furthermore, this guy now spams less behind the scenes, only reinitialising if there are actual changes to the sort/collect settings
    Brushed up some network content-range checking logic. this data is tracked better, and now any time a given 206 range response has insufficient data for what its header said, this is noted in the log. it doesn't raise an error, and the network job will still try to resume from the truncated point, but let's see how widespread this is. if a server delivers more data than specified, this now does raise an error
    Fixed a tiny bit of logic in how the server calculates changes in sibling and parent petition counts. I am not sure if I fixed the miscount the janitors have seen
    If a janitor asks for a petition and the current petition count for that type is miscounted, leading to a 404, the server now quickly recalculates that number for the next request
    Updated the system predicate parser to replace all underscores with whitespace, so it can accept system predicates that use_underscores_instead_of_whilespace. I don't think this messes up any of the parsing except in an odd case where a file service might have an underscore'd name, but we'll cross that bridge if and when we get to it
    Added information about 'PRAGMA quick_check;' to 'help my db is broke.txt'
    Patched a unit test that would rarely fail because of random data (issue #1217)

    Client api:

    /get_files/search_files:

    Fixed the recent bug where an empty tag input with 'search all' permission would raise an error. entering no search predicates now returns an empty list in all cases, no matter your permissions (issue #1250)
    Entering invalid tags now raises a 400 error
    Improved the tag permissions check. only non-wildcard tags are now tested against the filter
    Updated my unit tests to catch these cases

    /add_tags/search_tags:

    A unit test now explicitly tests that empty autocomplete input results in no tags
    The Client API now responds with Access-Control-Max-Age=86400 on OPTIONS checks, which should reduce some CORS pre-flight spam
    Client api version is now 34

    Misc cleanup:

    Cleaned up the signalling code in the 'recent system predicate' buttons
    Shuffled some page widget and layout code to make the embedded a/c dropdown work
    Deleted a bunch of a/c event handling and forced layout and other garbage code
    Worked on some linter warnings

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https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

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The Music Collection is a free program that allows you to archive your music collection. Using it you can enter in a collection any kind of music media that you own or you intend to. Also you can add or edit any kind of information concerning the albums in the collection.

The album info can be manually entered or automatically via the Internet. After saving the albums, you can browse them, filter albums by all possible criteria and search for particular album tracks you are interested. Also the program can display and print all data from your music collection in different ways, so you can pick the desired one.

The idea for creating the program was to manage my own music collection and i hope that it would be also useful to any music collector.

Freeware

https://www.gsoft4u.com/

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Changelog

    Misc:

    Fixed show/hiding the main gui splitters after a regression in v502. also, keyboard focus after these events should now be less jank
    Thanks to a user, the Deviant Art parser we rolled back to recently now gets video support. I also added artist tag parsing like the api parser used to do
    If you use the internal client database backup system, it now says in the menu when it was last run. this menu doesn't update often, so I put a bit of buffer in where it says 'did one recently'. let me know if the numbers here are ever confusing
    Fixed a bug where the database menu was not immediately updating the first time you set a backup location
    If an apng has sub-millisecond frame durations (seems to be jitter-apngs that were created oddly), these are now each rounded up to 1ms. any apngs that previously appeared to have 0 duration now have borked-tiny but valid duration and will now import ok
    The client now catches 529 error responses from servers (service is overloaded) and treats them like a 429/509 bandwidth problem, waiting for a bit before retrying. more work may be needed here
    The new popup toaster should restore from minimised better
    Fixed a subtle bug where trashing and untrashing a file when searching the special 'all my files' domain would temporarily sort that file at the front/end of sorting by 'import time'
    Added 'dateutil present' to help->about and reordered all the entries for readability
    Brushed up the network job response-bytes-size counting logic a little more
    Cleaned up the EVT_ICONIZE event processing wx/Qt patch

    Running from source is now easy on Windows:

    As I expect to drop Qt5 support in the builds next week, we need an easy way for Windows 7 and other older-OS users to run from source. I am by no means an expert at this, but I have written some easy-setup scripts that can get you running the client in Windows from nothing in a few minutes with no python experience
    The help is updated to reflect this, with more pointers to 'running from source', and that page now has a new guide that takes you through it all in simple steps
    There's a client-user.bat you can edit to add your own launch parameters, and a setup_help.bat to build the help too
    All the requirements.txts across the program have had a full pass. all are now similarly formatted for easy future editing. it is now simple to select whether you want Qt5 or Qt6, and seeing the various differences between the documents is now obvious
    The .gitignore has been updated to not stomp over your venv, mpv/ffmpeg/sqlite, or client-user.bat
    Feedback on how this works and how to make it better would be appreciated, and once we are happy with the workflow, I will invite Linux and macOS users to generate equivalent .sh and .command scripts so we are multiplatform-easy

    Build stuff:

    This is all wizard nonsense, so you can ignore it. I am mostly just noting it here for my records. tl;dr: I fixed more boot problems, now and in the future
    Just when I was getting on top of the latest boot problems, we had another one last week, caused by yet another external library that updated unusually, this time just a day after the normal release. it struck some users who run from source (such as AUR), and the macOS hotfix I put out on saturday. it turns out PySide6 6.4.0 is not yet supported by qtpy. since these big libraries' bleeding edge versions are common problems, I have updated all the requirements.txts across the program to set specific versions for qtpy, PySide2/PySide6, opencv-python-headless, requests, python-mpv, and setuptools (issue #1254)
    Updated all the requirements.txts with 'python-dateutil', which has spotty default support and whose absence broke some/all of the macOS and Docker deployments last week
    Added failsafe code in case python-dateutil is not available
    Pylzma is no longer in the main requirements.txt. it doesn't have a wheel (and hence needs compiler tech to pip install), and it is only useful for some weird flash files. UPDATE: with the blessed assistance of stackexchange, I rewrote the 'decompress lzma-compressed flash file' routine to re-munge the flash header into a proper lzma header and use the python default 'lzma' library, so 'pylzma' is no longer needed and removed from all requirements.txts
    Updated most of the actions in the build script to use updated node16 versions. node12 just started getting deprecation warnings. there is more work to do
    Replaced the node12 pip installer action with a manual command on the reworked requirements.txts
    Replaced most of the build script's uses of 'set-output', which just started getting deprecation warnings. there is more work to do

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Media Companion is a handy utility that offers the possibility to gather information from the Internet about your movies and make this information available to you in an organized manner.

The information collected includes such things as posters, backdrops, plot summary, actors and actor images, ratings etc. Media Companion currently supports Movies and TV Shows.

License: GPL

Changelog

    MC - Update MediaInfo.dll.
    TV - Fix Manual add series (F2) if series title already has the year, don't add it to the folder title again.
    TV - Rework TV Table view, add columns, save column sizing.
    TV - Add column select button to tv table tab.
    TV - Add Menu option to downsize Poster or downsize Fanart to set preferred image sizes.
    TV - Add optional filter to display Un Verified series only. Enable filter in TV Preferences, General Tab.
    TV - Fix Episode Id's changed to TMDB Default when running Batch Wizard to get TMDB Eisode Id's.
    TV - Quick add fixed to not download artwork.
    TV - Batch Wizard will download actor images if Quick add option selected.
    MusicVideo - Fix scraping and retrieving of data from Wikipedia.
    Movie - Fix Outline from IMDB.
    Movie - Fix rare issue where artwork was renamed to a base name.

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacompanion/

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Changelog

    Qt5:

    As a reminder, I am no longer supporting Qt5 with the official builds. if you are on Windows 7 (and I have heard at least one version of Win 8.1), or a similarly old OS, you likely cannot run the official builds now. if this is you, please check the 'running from source' guide in the help, which will allow you to keep updating the program. this process is now easy in Windows and should be similarly easy on other platforms soon

    Misc:

    If you run from source in windows, the program should now have its own taskbar group and use the correct hydrus icon. if you try and pin it to taskbar, it will revert to the 'python' icon, but you can give a shortcut to a batch file an icon and pin that to start
    Unfortunately, I have to remove the 'deviant art tag search' downloader this week. they killed the old API we were using, and what remaining open date-paginated search results the site offers is obfuscated and tokenised (no permanent links), more than I could quickly unravel. other downloader creators are welcome to give it a go. if you have a subscription for a da tag search, it will likely complain on its next run. please pause it and try to capture the best artists from that search (until DA kill their free artist api, then who knows what will happen). the oauth/phone app menace marches on
    Focus on the thumbnail panel is now preserved whenever it swaps out for another (like when you refresh the search)
    Fixed an issue where cancelling service selection on database->c&r->repopulate truncated would create an empty modal message
    Fixed a stupid typo in the recently changed server petition counting auto-fixing code

    Importer/exporter sidecar expansion:

    When you import or export files from/to disk, either manually or automatically, the option to pull or send tags to .txt files is now expanded:

    You can now import or export URLs
    You can now read or write .json files
    You can now import from or export to multiple sidecars, and have multiple separate pipelines
    You can now give sidecar files suffixes, for ".tags.txt" and similar
    You can now filter and transform all the strings in this pipeline using the powerful String Processor just like in the parsing system
    This affects manual imports, manual exports, import folders, and export folders. instead of smart .txt checkboxes, there's now a button leading to some nested dialogs to customise your 'routers' and, in manual imports, a new page tab in the 'add tags before import' window
    This bones of this system was already working in the background when I introduced it earlier this year, but now all components are exposed
    New export folders now start with the same default metadata migration as set in the last manual file export dialog
    This system will expand in future. most important is to add a 'favourites' system so you can easily save/load your different setups. then adding more content types (e.g. ratings) and .xml. I'd also like to add purely internal file-to-itself datatype transformation (e.g. pulling url:(url) tags and converting them to actual known urls, and vice versa)
    Importer/exporter sidecar expansion (boring stuff);
    Split the importer/exporter objects into separate importers and exporters. existing router objects will update and split their internal objects safely
    All objects in this system can now describe themselves
    All import/export nodes now produce appropriate example texts for string processing and parsing UI test panels
    Filename Tagging Options objects no longer track neighbouring .txt file importing, and their UI removes it too. Import Folders will suck their old data on update and convert to metadata routers
    Wrote a json sidecar importer that takes a parsing formula
    Wrote a json sidecar exporter that takes a list of dictionary names to export to. it will edit an existing file
    Wrote some ui panels to edit single file metadata migration routers
    Wrote some ui panels to edit single file metadata migration importers
    Wrote some ui panels to edit single file metadata migration exporters
    Updated edit export folder panel to use the new UI. it was already using a full static version of the system behind the scenes; now this is exposed and editable
    Updated the manual file export panel to use the new UI. it was using a half version of the system before--now the default options are updated to the new router object and you can create multiple exports
    Updated import folders to use the new UI. the filename tagging options no longer handles .txt, it is now on a separate button on the import folder
    Updated manual file imports to use the new UI. the 'add tags before import' window now has a 'sidecars' page tab, which lets you edit metadata routers. it updates a path preview list live with what it expects to parse
    A full suite of new unit tests now checks the router, the four import nodes, and the four export nodes thoroughly
    Renamed ClientExportingMetadata to ClientMetadataMigration and moved to the metadata module. refactored the importers, exporters, and shared methods to their own files in the same module
    Created a gui.metadata module for the new router and metadata import/export widgets and panels
    Created a gui.exporting module for the existing export folder and manual export gui code
    Reworked some of the core importer/exporter objects and inheritance in clientmetadatamigration
    Updated the HDDImport object and creation pipeline to handle metadata routers (as piped from the new sidecars tab)
    When the hdd import or import folder is set to delete original files, now all defined sidecars are deleted along with the media file
    Cleaned up a bunch of related metadata importer/exporter code
    Cleaned import folder code
    Cleaned hdd importer code

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SunlitGreen Photo Manager is a free, simple and easy-to-use digital photo management software. It lets you organize, browse and tag your digital photos. You can easily group photos into albums/collections, and do fast search as-you-type.

Freeware

http://www.sunlitgreen.com/photo-manager.html

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A mix between an encyclopedia of movies, a video collection manager and a store catalog, this app will prove useful to all movie lovers.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

[NEW] added 500 movies & series
[NEW] improved the movie recommendations
[NEW] added "trending" filter
[NEW] trending movies have their IMDb popularity and rating updated daily
[BUG FIX] fixed some minor bugs

https://www.coollector.com/

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Changelog

+ added the “date added” column to the movie set table #1937
+ IMDB serves different search result pages - parse other one too x fixed wrong detection of the season number in season artwork filename (resulting in season2147483647-poster.jpg) #1943 x prevent crashes in the episode editor due to too large episode numbers #1917 x also enable FFmpeg for automatic fanart scraping #1927 x do not show rating star twice in the ratings panel #1931 x (TV show) normalize text before filtering the tree #1929 x AniDB: better filtering of search results x Improved search results when having a date in title #1932 x revert change, which prevented renaming of episodes w/o patterns x better handling of timeouts #1925

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http://www.tinymediamanager.org/