Thema: CD/DVD/Film-Verwaltungsprogramme & Tools

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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:>>

[BUG FIX] the app could freeze under some circumstances

https://www.coollector.com/

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

The Unlicense

Changelog

    Exif update:

    The client now has the ability to check your image files for basic human-readable metadata. sometimes this is timing data for a gif, often it is something like DPI, and for many of the recent ML-generated pngs, this is the original generating prompt. this is now viewable in the same way as EXIF, on the same panel. since this (and future expansions) are not EXIF per se, the overarching UI around here is broadly renamed 'embedded metadata'
    The client now scans for and remembers if files have EXIF or human-readable embedded metadata. two predicates, 'system:image has exif' and 'system:image has human-readable embedded metadata' let you search for them. the vast majority of images have some sort of human-readable embedded metadata, so 'system:no human-readable embedded metadata' may typically be the more useful predicate in the latter case
    The system predicate parser can handle these new system preds
    To keep the system predicate list tidy, the new system preds are wrapped with 'has icc profile' into a meta-system predicate 'system:embedded metadata', like how 'system:dimensions' works
    The media viewer now knows ahead of time if a media has embedded metadata. the button in the media viewer's top hover window that shows this is no longer a cog but a little text-on-window image, and it now only appears if the file has data to show. the tooltip previews whether this is EXIF, other data, or both
    This knowledge is obviously now generated on file imports going forward, and new file maintenance jobs can retroactively scan for it
    All your existing image files and gifs/apngs are scheduled for this work. they will catch up in the background over the coming weeks
    The duplicate filter shows if one or both files have exif or other human-readable data. I had written off adding new 'scores' to the dupe filter panel until a full overhaul, but this was a simple copy/paste of the icc profile statement, so I snuck it in. also, these statements now only appear if for one image it is true and the other is false--no more 'they both have icc profiles m8', which is not a helpful comparison statement
    Added some unit tests for this new tech
    A future expansion here will be to record the specific keys and values into the database so you can search specifically over those values (e.g. 'EXIF ISO level > 400', or 'has "parameters" text value')

    Misc:

    The 'reverse page drop shift behaviour' checkbox in options->gui pages is replaced with four checkboxes. two govern whether page drops should chase the drop, either normally or with shift held down, and two new ones govern whether hydrus should dynamically navigate tabs as you move a media or page drag and drop over the tab bar. set them how you like!
    A new EXPERIMENTAL checkbox just beneath these lets you change what the mouse wheel does to a row of page tabs--by default, the wheel will change tab selection, but if you often have an overloaded row (i.e. they overspill the bar width and you see the left/right arrows), you can set the wheel to scroll/pan the bar instead
    The 'if file is missing, remove record' job is now split into two--one that leaves no deletion record (old behaviour), and one that does (new). this new job lets you do some 'yes and I want it to stay gone' tasks like if you are syncing an old database backup to a newer client_files structure
    Thanks to user pointing out what was needed, turned on a beta 'darkmode detection' in Qt for Windows. if you launch the client in official Windows 'Apps darkmode' (under Windows settings->Colors), it should now start with your system darkmode colours. switching between light and dark mode while the client is running is pretty buggy (also my Explorer windows are buggy at this too jej), but this is a step forward. fingers crossed this feature matures and gets reliable multiplatform support in future (issue #756)

    Fixes:

    Thanks to a user, the twitter downloader is fixed. seems like twitter (maybe due to Elon's new team?) changed one tiny name in the API we use. let's see if they change anything more significant in the coming weeks (issue #1268)
    Thanks to a user the 'gelbooru 0.1.11 file page parser' stops getting borked 'Rating: ' tags, and I fixed its source time fetch too. I'm pretty sure these broke because of the multiline string processing change a couple months ago, sorry for the trouble!
    Fixed a recent stupid typo that broke the media viewer's do an edge pan' action (issue #1266)
    Fixed an issue with the furry.booru.org url classes, which were normalising URLs to http rather than https for some accidental reason
    I finally figured out the weird bug where the colour picker dialog would sometimes treat mouse moves as mouse drags over the colour-selection gradient box. this is due to a bug in Qt6 where if you have a stylesheet with a certain hover value set, the colour picker goes bananas. I tried many things to fix this and finally settled on a sledgehammer: if you have the offending value in your stylesheet, it now does some stuff that takes a second or two of lag to launch the colour picker and a second or two of lag to exit it. sorry, but that fixes it! if you want to skip the lag in the options dialog, set your stylesheet to 'default' for the duration (issue #1260)
    Fixed an issue where the new sidecar importer system was not correctly cleaning tags (removing extra whitespace, lowercasing) before committing them to the database! if you got hit with this, a simple restart should fix the incorrect labels (it wasn't actually writing bad tags to the database), but if a restart does not fix it, please run database->check and repair->fix invalid tags (issue #1264)
    Fixed an issue opening the new metadata sidecar edit UI when you had removed and replaced the original 'my tags' service
    Think I fixed a bug in the duplicate filter where if a file in the current pair is deleted (and removed from view), the index/pair tracking would desynchronise and cause an error if you attempted to rewind to the first pair
    I fixed the reported 'committable decisions' count for duplicate filters set to do no duplicate content merge at all

    Build version woes:

    All the builds now run on python 3.9 (Linux and Windows were 3.8 previously). any users on systems too old to run 3.9 are encouraged to run from source instead
    The linux build is rolled back to the older version of python-mpv. thanks to the users who helped me test this, and the specific user who let me know about the different version incompatibilities going on. basically we can't move to the new mpv on the Linux build for a little while, so the official release is rolling back to safe and stable. if you are on a newer Linux flavour, like 22.04, I recommend you pursue running from source, which is now easy on Linux
    I am considering, in let's say two or three months, no longer supporting the Linux build. we'll see how well the running from source easy-setup scripts work out, but if they aren't a hassle, that really is the proper way to do things on Linux, and it'll solve many crashes and mpv issues

    Running from source is now simple and easy for everyone:

    Transcribed the setup .bat files in the base directory to .sh for linux users and .command for macOS users! the 'running from source' help is updated too. all users are now welcome to try it out!
    Folded the 'setup_venv_qt5.bat' script into the main 'setup_venv.bat' script as a user choice for 'advanced' setup, and expanded it with prompts for qt5, mpv, and opencv
    The setup files now say your python version and guide you through all choices
    As Windows 8.1 users have reported problems with Qt6, the help and script recommendations on Qt5 are now <=8.1, not just 7. but it is easy to switch now, so if you want to play around, let me know what you discover

    Boring running from source and help gubbins:

    Took the 'update' option out of the 'setup-venv.bat' script. this process was not doing what I thought it would and was not particularly useful. the script now always reinstalls after user hits Enter to continue, which is very reliable, gets newer versions of libraries when available, and almost always takes less than a minute
    Updated the github readme and website index to point obviously and directly at the getting started guide
    Took out some of the bloviating from the initial introduction page
    Updated the running from source help to talk about the new advanced setup and added a couple extra warnings
    Updated the running from source help to talk about Linux and macOS
    If qtpy is missing at the very start of the program, a new error catch asks the user if they installed and activated their venv correctly (should also catch people who run client.py right off the bat without reading the docs)
    Deleted the old user-written help document about which packages to use with which Linux flavours, as the author says it is now out of date and modern pip as used by the scripts navigates it better nowadays
    The setup_venv.bat now checks and informs the user if they do not have python installed
    Cleaned up the flow control of the batch files. more conditionals, fewer gotos
    To keep the base install dir clean, moved the 'advanced' setup script's cut-up requirements.txts to a new folder under static/requirements. if you are manually setting up a venv and need unusual libraries, check them out for known good specific versions, otherwise you are set with the basic requirements.txt
    To keep the install dir clean, moved the obscure 'build' requirements.txts to a new folder under static/requirements. these are mostly just notes for me when setting up a new test dev environment

    Cleanup and other boring stuff:

    As recommended by the pyopenssl page, I moved the server self-signed cert generation routine to 'cryptography' (which I'm pretty sure pyopenssl was just wrapping anyway). cryptography is added to the requir...

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An intuitive software solution that helps you manage books, DVDs, journals, magazines, music CDs or photograph collections from within a created database.

BSD License     /  Donationware

Changelog

    Batch Activities categories.
    Batch Activities discovery.
    Maximum reserved books. Limits are now enforced.
    Optional tear-off menus.
    PostgreSQL 10.23; Windows.
    PostgreSQL files require book_target_audiences permissions.
    Qt 5.15.2; Windows.
    Qt 5.15.7; Mac.
    Remove hyphens from multi-volume ISBN in book search.
    Removed vertical headers from many table widgets.
    SQLite 3.40; Windows.

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https://biblioteq.sourceforge.io/index.html

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Changelog

    Misc:

    Fixed an issue where you could set 'all known tags' in the media-tag exporter box in the sidecars system
    If a media-tag exporter in the sidecars system is set to an invalid (missing) tag service, the dialog now protests when you try to OK it. also, when you boot into this dialog, it will now moan about the invalid service. also, new media-tag exporters will always start with a valid local tag service.
    Qt import error states are handled better. when the client boots, the various 'could not find Qt' errors at different qtpy and QtCore import stages are now handled separately. the Qt selected by qtpy, if any, is reported, as is the state of QT_API and whether hydrus thought it was importable. it seems like there have been a couple of users caught by something like system-wide QT_API env variables here, which this should reveal better in boot-crash logs from now on
    All the new setup scripts in the base directory now push their location as the new CWD when they start, and they pop back to your original when they exit. you should be able to call them from anywhere now!
    I've written a 'setup_desktop.sh' install script for Linux users to 'install' a hydrus.desktop file for the current install location to your applications directory. thanks to the user who made the original hydrus.desktop file for the help here
    I fixed the focus when you open a 'edit predicate' panel that only has buttons, like 'has audio'/'no audio'. top button should have focus again, so you can hit enter quick
    Added updated link to hydownloader on the client api page

    Dupes apply better to groups of thumbs:

    Tl;dr: when the user sets a 'copy both ways' duplicate file status on more than two thumbnails, the duplicate metadata merge options are applied better now
    Advanced explanation: previously, all merge updates were calculated before applying the updates, so when applied to a group of interconnected relationships, the nodes that were not directly connected to each other were not syncing data. now, all merge updates are calculated and applied to each pair in turn, and then the whole batch is repeated once more, ensuring two-way transitivity. for instance, if you are set to copy tags in both directions and set 'A is the best' of three files 'ABC', and B has tag 'x' and C has 'y', then previously A would get 'x' and 'y', but B would not get 'y' and C would not get 'x'. now, A gets 'x' before the AC merge is calculated, so A and C get x, and then the whole operation is repeated, so when AB is re-calculated, B now gets 'y' from the updated A. same thing if you set to archive if either file is archived--now that archived status will propagate across the whole group in one action

    Client api:

    The new 'tags' structure in /get_files/file_metadata now has the 'all known tags' service's tags
    The 'file_services' structure in /get_files/file_metadata now states service name, type, and pretty type, like 'tags'
    /get_services now says the service type and type_pretty, like 'tags'. /get_services may be reformatted to a service_key key'd Object at some point, since it uses an old custom human-readable service type as Object key atm and I'd rather we move to the same labels and references for everything, but we'll see
    Updated the client api help with more example result data for the above changes (and other stuff like 'all my files')
    Updated the client api unit tests to deal with the above changes
    Client api version is now 36

    Server/janitor improvements:

    I recommend server admins update their servers this week! everything old still works, but jannies who update have new abilities that won't work until you update
    The petition processing page now has an 'account id' text field. paste an account id in there, and you'll get the petition counts just for that account! the petitions requested will also only be for that account!
    If you get a 404 on a 'get petition' call (either due to another janitor clearing the last, or from a server count cache miscount), it no longer throws an error. instead, a popup appears for five seconds saying 'hey, there wasn't one after all, please hit refresh counts'

    Boring server improvements:

    Refactored the account-fetching routine a little. some behind the scenes account identifier code, which determines an account from a mapping or file record, is now cleaner and more cleanly separated from the 'fetch account from account key' calls. account key is the master account identifier henceforth, and any content lookups will look up the account key and then do normal account lookup after. I will clean this further in the near future
    A new server call looks up the account key from a content object explicitly; this will get more use in future
    All the 'get number of x' server calls now support 'get number of x made by y' for account-specific counting. these numbers aren't cached, but should be fairly quick for janitorial purposes
    Same deal for petitions, the server can now fetch petitions by a particular user, if any
    Added/updated unit tests for these changes
    General server code cleanup

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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 reloading of mediainfo to the commandline interface
    Subtitles: also parse language from filename, if MediaInfo detects none #1947
    Updated Java to 17.0.5 #1948 #1933
    Improved MediaSource detection (false positives, ordering) #1950
    (TV show) also normalize database values before filtering the tree #1929
    (IMDB) fixed search
    (TV show) enhanced season detection for season artwork #1943
    Added some performance improvements to the launcher

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http://www.tinymediamanager.org/

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The AMT – Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer is an automation GUI to batch create ScreenCaps, Thumbnail Index Pictures, Preview Pictures or Contact Sheets for any given number of movies.
It supports many different input (AVI, MPG, Quicktime, Real-Media, Windows-Media, etc) formats, in fact every input format that is supported by MPlayer.

Additionally AMT offers you a huge number of possibilities to customize the design and layout of the ScreenCaps. AMT works by remotely controlling the MPlayer, some applications of the ImageMagick Suite and a MediaInfo plugin to perform the screenshoting and Picture creation.

Freeware

Changelog

    Fixed tray password set by default
    Fixed error on “Show notification…” or “When finished…”
    Added success/failure messages to AMT Drag & Drop Interface

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http://funk.eu/amt/

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Whats new:>>

    [NEW] added 400 movies & series
    [NEW] improved the movie recommendations
    [NEW] modified/added several movie filters
    [NEW] new "random" order allows to shuffle the filtered movies
    [NEW] changed how the interface manages streaming services
    [BUG FIX] fixed several bugs

https://www.coollector.com/

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Sortiert alle Mediendateien auf der Festplatte für eine strukturierte und übersichtliche Verwaltung der Daten; durchsucht zudem die lokalen Laufwerke nach doppelt vorhandenen Dateien mit dem eigenen akustischen Verfahren MAFP (Mediapure Acoustic FingerPrint) und bietet Funktionen zum Bearbeiten von Tags und Dateinamen.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

- Korrektur beim manuellen Abarbeiten von Duplikaten in der Linux Version von Mediapurge

http://www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/info/mediapurge_features_en.php

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Whats new:>>

    Better detect and parse movie structures #1932
    Fixed changing of tags in episodes #1955
    (IMDB) make cleaner calls to avoid HTTP 403 responses

http://www.tinymediamanager.org/

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Changelog

    Misc:

    Added a shortcut action to the 'media' set for 'file relationships: show x', where x is duplicates, potential duplicates, alternates, or false positives, just like the action buried in the thumbnail right-click menu. this actually works in both thumbs and the canvas.
    Fixed file deletes not getting processed in the duplicate filter when there were no normal duplicate actions committed in a batch. sorry for the trouble here--duplicate decisions and deletes are now counted and reported in the confirmation dialogs as separate numbers
    As an experiment, the duplicate filter now says (+50%, -33%) percentage differences in the file size comparison statement. while the numbers here are correct, I'm not sure if this is helpful or awkward. maybe it should be phrased differently--let me know
    Url classes get two new checkboxes this week: 'do not allow any extra path components/parameters', which will stop a match if the testee URL is 'longer' than the url class's definition. this should help with some difficult 'path-nested URLs aren't matching to the right URL Class' problems
    When you import hard drive files manually or in an import folder, files with .txt, .json, or .xml suffixes are now ignored in the file scanning phase. when hydrus eventually supports text files and arbitrary files, the solution will be nicer here, but this patch makes the new sidecar system nicer to work with in the meantime without, I hope, causing too much other fuss
    The 'tags' button in the advanced-mode 'sort files' control now hides/shows based on the sort type. also, the asc/desc button now hides/shows when it is invalid (filetype, hash, random), rather than disable/enable. there was a bit more signals-cleanup behind the scenes here too
    Updated the 'could not set up qtpy/QtCore' error handling yet again to try to figure out this macOS App boot problem some users are getting. the error handling now says what the initial QT_API env variable was and tries to import every possible Qt and prints the whole error for each. hopefully we'll now see why PySide6 is not loading
    Cleaned up the 'old changelog' page. all the '.' separators are replaced with proper header tags and I rejiggered some of the ul and li elements to interleave better. its favicon is also fixed. btw if you want to edit 500-odd elements at a time in a 2MB document, PyCharm is mostly great. multi-hundred simultaneous edit hung for about five minutes per character, but multiline regex Find and Replace was instant
    Added a link to a user-written guide for running Hydrus on Windows in Anaconda to the 'installing' help
    Fixed some old/invalid dialog locations in the 'how to build a downloader' help

    Client api:

    A new /get_files/file_hashes command lets you look up any of the sha256, md5, sha1, sha512 hashes that hydrus knows about using any of the other hashes. if you have a bunch of md5 and want to figure out if you have them, or if you want to get the md5s of your files and run them against an external check, this is now possible
    Added help and unit tests for this new command
    Added a service enum to the /get_services Client API help
    Client api version is now 37
    As a side thing, I rejiggered the 'what non-sha256 hash do these sha256 hashes have?' test here. it now returns a mapping, allowing for more efficient mass lookups, and it no longer creates new sha256 records for novel hashes. feel free to spam this on new sha256 hashes if you like

    Interesting serverside:

    The tag repository now manages a tag filter. admins with 'modify options' permission can alter it under the new menu command services->administrate services->tag repo->edit tag filter.
    Any time new tags are pended to the tag repository, they are now washed through the tag filter. any that don't pass are silently discarded
    Normal users will regularly fetch the tag filter as long as their client is relatively new. they can review it under a new read-only Tag Filter panel from review services. if their client is super old (or the server), account sync and the UI should fail gracefully
    If you are in advanced mode and your client account-syncs and discovers the tag filter has changed, it will make a popup with a summary of the changes. I am not sure how spammy/annoying this will be, so let me know if you'd rather turn them off or auto-hide after two hours or something
    Future updates will have more feedback on manage tags dialog and similar, just to let you know there and then if an entered tag is not wanted. also, admins who change the tag filter will be able to retroactively remove tags that apply to the filter, not just stop new ones. I'd also like some sibling hard-replace to go along with this, so we don't accidentalyl remove tags that are otherwise sibling'd to be good--we'll see
    The hydrus server won't bug out so much at unusual errors now. previously, I ingrained that any error during any request would kick off automatic delays, but I have rejiggered it a bit so this mostly just happens during automatic work like update downloading

    Boring serverside:

    Added get/set and similar to the tag repo's until-now-untouched tag filter
    Wrote a nice helper method that splays two tag filters into their added/changed/deleted rules and another that can present that in human-readable format. it prints to the server log whenever a human changes the tag filter, and will be used in future retroactive syncing
    Cleaned up how the service options are delivered to the client. previously, there would have been a version desync pain if I had ever updated the tag filter internal version. now, the service options delivered to the client are limited to python primitives, atm just update period and nullification period, and tag filter and other complex objects will have their own get calls and fail in quiet isolation
    I fixed some borked nullification period initialisation serverside
    Whenever a tag filter describes itself, if either black or whitelist have more than 12 rules, it now summarises rather than listing every single one

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Whats new:>>

x better detect and parse movie structures #1932
x fixed changing of tags in episodes #1955
x (IMDB) make cleaner calls to avoid HTTP 403 responses
x (TV show) better cleanup after scraping in the episode editor
x added module name into title bar of the filter dialog

http://www.tinymediamanager.org/

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Whats new:>>

    Added : Play random album.
    Added : Ability to paste text in lists.
    Fixed : Merging albums in the audio file scan.
    Fixed : Some minor bugs.

https://www.gsoft4u.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]

- Added MobyGames online search for games (see https://mobygames.com).

- Added a new setting to regional setting: date format.

- Press F5 to insert a time stamp into a text field. The time stamp is based on the date format setting + HH:mm:ss

- Added a preview pane when selecting images

[Updated]

- Changed the online search to allow for additional filters to be set.

- No pop up message anymore when no search results are found for an online search. Shown in message log instead.

- Added wait time between requests for all online services.

- Long text fields (like description) opened a text view on double click. This has been changed to CTRL + mouse click as double click is also used to select a single word.

- Small dialog changes to the item form tabs; saving will now close the dialog and added a title to the dialog.

[Fixed]

- Fixed a NullPointerException when performing a mass update using previous online search history.

- None of the online services were set up to take the maximum number of search results into account.

- URL field launcher did not work for HTTPS hyper links.

- Scrolling in the card view was sometimes reversed.

- All settings files for module were missing, triggering a reset of existing user settings as well as having incorrect settings after a clean install.

- Settings and such were not stored to disk before creating a backup.

- On new installations on Windows the Font selection would change on saving any of the settings.

- Default data was missing in Data Crow 4.3; none of the categories and such were created.

- Fixed an issue where a picture or file is selected even if the file choose action was cancelled.

- There was an issue with the Item Form Settings; it did a reset of the fields on opening of the dialog.

- Fixed an issue where new translations are not updated for existing Data Crow installations. Now, when you install a new version of Data Crow it will load the language file from your user folder and adds missing translations from the language file located in the installation folder. If there are still missing translations these are added from the default English language file.

- Horizontal / vertical setting not always applied correctly to the quick view.

- Small fixes for the German translation.

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http://www.datacrow.net/

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Changelog

    Misc:

    Added an option 'mouse wheel can "scroll" through menu buttons' to options->gui. this turns off the behaviour where a mouse wheel event over, for instance, the file sort asc/desc button, will change the button's value rather than scrolling the underlying panel. if you found this annoying, you can finally turn it off!
    Fixed an annoying 'save service' bug that some users saw last week with the introduction of serverside Tag Filters. some users had an old datatype in their service data storage--a legacy issue--but the system now coerces all datatypes and direct sub-objects to a saveable format on load or update
    The tag washing system now collapses more types of whitespace character to space. mostly this means tab is now converted to space, but some unicode stuff goes too
    The hangul filler character u3164 is no longer permitted as a namespace or subtag. it can be in longer tags, but isn't allowed on its own (where it appears to be a blank space). (hydev saw one in the wild, probably from some cheeky post title)
    Let me know if you run across a newly invalid tag already in your system and the UI goes bananas--ideally hydrus should now catch this and either fix itself or report with a polite note, but let's see. if things go crazy, run database->check and repair->fix invaliid tags
    Improved some image transparency detection and slicing logic. it is more accurate and saves more memory now. also, the system that saves thumbnails will more reliably use jpegs when it doesn't need png's transparency
    Fixed some PSD thumbs showing a fully transparent transparency layer
    Fixed a bug where you could enter capital letters into the namespace colour list in 'tag presentation' options panel
    The default twitter downloaders are all renamed to remove the confusing and technical 'syndication' label
    'speedcopy' is now an optional supported library. a couple users have suggested this to make network copies on Windows and Linux much faster. I'd like some advanced users who run from source to try adding it to their venvs, and we'll see how it works out IRL in different situations (you can see if it is loaded under help->about)
    If you run from source, the 'advanced' setup route now offers a (t)est Qt install, which sets PySide6 6.4.1 (up from 6.3.21). feel free to try it out--it works well for me, but I want to test it more before trying to roll it to the releases
    In a side thing, thanks to the user who walked me through setting up signed commits to github with my own PGP key. you can see my new key in the contacts help page, id 76249F053212133C, and I am now committing with it. I'm not very familiar with the sheer mechanics of this tech, so bear with me, but I'm pretty sure I can sign or encrypt something if ever needed

    MacOS build fix:

    Since v505, many macOS users were unable to boot the built app. it has taken multiple rounds of back and forth with users, but we figured it out. (looks like pyoxidizer updating from 0.22.0 to 0.23.0 simply broke qtpy/Qt bindings, so we force a rollback this week)
    Also, the macOS app moves from PySide6 to PyQt6 this week. they are basically the same, but PyQt6 packages into a 258MB dmg, less than half the 548MB PySide6 one!
    Let me know if the macOS app gives any more trouble. otherwise, to the people who helped out here, thank you very much for the help!

    Mostly boring tag filter panel:

    Removed the 'add' buttons; added 'delete' buttons to the simple whitelist and blacklist panels; added 'block everything' to simple blacklist panel
    The panel now talks about the special sibling and namespace rules when you edit an explicit blacklist-mode-only filter (the tag import options blacklist works this way)
    The 'you didn't need to add that exception' text and 'filter is too complicated for this panel' texts now show/hide rather than waste empty space
    Some of the simple-advanced interactions are better, but there's still some logical bork here. mostly stuff like when you hit the 'unnamespace' checkbox in the whitelist panel, it gets needlessly added to the 'except' column in the advanced, rather than just removed from the advanced 'exclude'. I'll fix this up in the near future
    The two namespace checkbox lists are now sized more appropriately
    The white/blacklist panels disable more simply and reliably

    Boring cleanup:

    The confusing 'view this file's duplicates' menu label, which was an artifact of an old submenu label, is removed. if the duplicate menu wants to present the 'view' commands for two locations, it'll title with the respective location, otherwise the commands speak for themselves, no label
    Some old 'check(er) timings' nomenclature is renamed to 'checker options' across the board
    The hydrus serialisable dictionary now washes any nested lists or dicts to hydrus serialised equivalents, which should stop situations like the save service bug in future
    The hydrus serialisable list can now handle a mix of hydrus serialisables and python primitives. it also washes its lists or dicts to serialisable equivalents
    Improved the data-stability of some image channel slicing
    Fixed some PIL fallback thumbnail generation, and improved its 'has transparency' png/jpeg decision-making
    Fixed the main thumbnail loader being confused at times about which thumbnail mime to load with. the check I have added is ultra-fast on data we are loading anyway, so we shouldn't notice a difference, but if you get slow thumb loads, let me know
    Fixed the media container embed buttons using the file mime rather than the thumb mime when loading thumbnails (again causing transparency issues)
    Fixed more generally bad mime handling in the thumbnail generation routine that could have caused more unusual transparency handling for clip, psd, or flash files

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