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.

The Unlicense

Changelog

    misc:

    fixed the gallery downloader and thread watcher loading with the 'clear highlight' button enabled despite there being nothing currently highlighted
    to fix the darkmode tooltips on the new Qt 6.5.2 on Windows (the text is stuck on a dark grey, which is unreadable in darkmodes), all the default darkmode styles now have an 'alternate-tooltip-colour' variant, which swaps out the tooltip background colour for the much brighter normal widget text colour
    rewrote the apng parser to work much faster on large files. someone encountered a 200MB giga apng that locked up the client for minutes. now it takes a second or two (unfortunately it looks like that huge apng breaks mpv, but there we go)
    the 'media' options page has two new checkboxes--'hide uninteresting import/modified times'--which allow you to turn off the media viewer behaivour where import and modified times similar to the 'added to my files xxx days ago' are hidden
    reworked the layout of the 'media' options page. everything is in sections now and re-ordered a bit
    the 'other file is a pixel-for-pixel duplicate png!' statements will now only show if the complement is a jpeg, gif, or webp. this statement isn't so appropriate for formats like PSD
    a variety of tricky tags like :>= are now searchable in normal autocomplete lookup. a test that determined whether to use a slower but more capable search was misfiring
    the client api key editing window has a new 'check all permissions' button
    fixed the updates I made last week to the missing-master-file-id recovery system. I made a stupid typo and didn't test it properly, fixed now. sorry for the trouble!
    thanks to a user, the help has a bunch of updated screenshots and fixed references to old concepts
    did a little more reformatting and cleanup of 'getting started with downloading' help document and added a short section on note import options
    cleaned up some of the syntax in our various batch files. fingers crossed, the setup_venv.bat script will absolutely retain the trailing space after its questions now, no matter what whitespace my IDE and github want to trim

    string joiner:

    the parsing system has a new String Processor object--the 'String Joiner'. this is a simple concatenator that takes the list of strings and joins them together. it has two variables: what joining text to use, e.g. ', ', or '-', or empty string '' for simple concatenation; and an optional 'group size', which lets you join every two or three or n strings in 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3 style patterns

    new file types:

    thanks to a user; we now have support for QOI (a png-like lossless image type) and procreate (Apple image project file) files. the former has full support; the latter has thumbnails
    QOI needs Pillow 9.5 at least, so if you are on a super old 'running from source' version, try rebuilding your venv; or cope with you QOI-lessness

    client api:

    thanks to a user, we now have /add_tags/get_siblings_and_parents, which, given a set of tags, shows their sibling and parent display rules for each service
    I wrote some help and unit tests for this
    client api version is now 51

    file storage (mostly boring):

    the file storage system is creaky and ugly to use. I have prepped some longer-term upgrades, mostly by writing new tools and cleaning and reworking existing code. I am nowhere near to done, but I'd like us to have four new features in the nearish future:
    dynamic-length subfolders (where instead of a fixed set of 256 x00-xff folders, we can bump up to 4096 x000-xfff, and beyond, based on total number of files)
    setting fixed space limits on particular database locations (e.g. 'no more than 200GB of files here') to complement the current weight system
    permitting multiple valid locations for a particular subfolder prefix
    slow per-file background migration between valid subfolders, rather than the giganto folder-atomic program-blocking 'move files now' button in database maintenance

    so, it is pretty boring so far, but I did the following:

    wrote a new class to handle a specific file storage subfolder and spammed it everywhere, replacing previous location and prefix juggling
    wrote some new tools to scan and check the coverage of multiple locations and dynamic-length subfolders
    rewrote the file location database initialisation, storage, testing, updating, and repair to support multiple valid locations
    updated the database to hold 'max num bytes' per file storage location
    the feature to migrate the SQLite database files and then restart is removed from the 'migrate database' dialog. it was always ultrajank in a place that really shouldn't be, and it was completely user-unfriendly. just move things manually, while the client is closed
    the old 'recover and merge surplus database locations into the correct position' side feature in 'move files now' is removed. it was always a little jank, was very rarely actually helpful, and had zero reporting. it will return in the new system as a better one-shot maintenance job
    touched up the migrated database help a little

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

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EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries.

Freeware

Changelog

    MediaInfo: Fixed an issue where audio streams could get detected twice.
    User Interface: Sorted the Versions in the dropdown list.
    TheMovieDb import: When updating a cover from TheMovieDb on an "IMdb entry" the IMDb link and rating were overwritten by TMDb values.
    User interface: In the edit screen IMDb stars could show 10 yellow stars while actual rating was lower.
    Export to csv / text: Movies belonging to a Collection showed the Collection title instead of the Movie title.
    Edit multiple movies: Added option to keep exiting tags when adding new ones.
    Scan Hard disk: improved detection of moved files.
    Batch update: Update location did not update base location of TV Series.
    Database: Renumering the database entries made copies of collections.
    Translations: Updated the Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Portuguese, German, Czech, French and Dutch translations.

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http://www.emdb.eu/

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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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Whats new:>>

    Thanks to a user, we now have pdf thumbnails! there is surprisingly little jank!
    I hacked together a newer and better word count for PDFs. I can't promise it is perfect, but it does actually inspect the raw text. I'm expect we'll add a separate 'num_pages' row in future to handle comics (and other stuff like cbr/cbz)
    I also hacked in 'human-readable file metadata' for PDFs. any PDF with author, title, subject, or keywords metadata is now viewable at the top of the media viewer
    On update all your existing pdfs will be scheduled to get new thumbs, count their words, and learn if they have human-readable file metadata
    This tech relies on Qt, so users running from source on old OSes (and thus Qt5) may not have very good support, sorry!

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

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Changelog

    misc:

    a new string converter rule now allows for extremely easy date parsing, thanks to the dateparser library. all old 'datestring to timestamp' rules remain as they are, but are now called '(advanced)'. a new option, 'datestring to timestamp (easy)', which has exactly zero variables to fiddle with, just eats up pretty much any date string you can think of, including timezone conversions, and even stuff like '2 hours ago'. you need the dateparser library for this to work, so if you run from source, you might like to rebuild your venv this week. your dateparser import status is in help->about
    thanks to the user who added it recently, PSD rendering is now much faster and uses less memory. if you do a lot of PSD work, let me know how this goes. if PSDs now load pretty much like large pngs, I think we'll set them, by default, to show as normal in the preview viewer
    thanks to a user, we now have description note parsing for the default e621 downloader
    the program now supports bitmap files as-is. until now, I automatically converted them to png on import, but this was a mistake--despite this file format being a waste 99.7% of the time, hydrus's philosophy is not to alter files on import, and this long-time exception resulted in several awkward bumps in the code that I'm happy to be rid of now
    fixed a couple desync bugs in the migrate database dialog where you could change a location's weight (particularly between 0 and 1) and not get the correct flip of the 'files need to be moved'/'files are all good' state until you re-opened the dialog

    PDFs:

    I screwed something up with the PDF thumbnail generation at the last minute last week, fixing it on non-PySide6, but introducing some logspam and--for at least one user--adding instability. the logspam is now gone and I believe the instability is fixed. now it is basically the same as the SVG thumbnail code, which hasn't given us any trouble. if we still see some crashes, I'm going to have to overhaul these two thumbnail generation methods
    when PDFs fail to generate thumbs, a little text about the error is now printed to the log
    help->about now has lines for QtCharts and QtPdf, and if there is a PDF problem, it puts the import trace in a popup

    mr bones:

    mr bones can now take any file search. if you want to see the average filesize of your pngs, or the archive/inbox ratio of creator x's webms, just set that search on the new panel and the numbers will update for that subset
    this turned, characteristically, into a bottomless rabbit hole, and I culled the more complicated features lest the ride consume me. searching a multiple file domain means deleted numbers cannot be calculated, nor can the 'earliest import' time, and searching deleted domains will generally give you some gonk numbers (and likely reveal some interesting legacy bugs, like inbox count amongst deleted files)
    the old search was highly optimised, but this has few guard rails. if you give this thing a super difficult query, it'll take a long time. there is now a cancel button that should interrupt all but the weirdest operations fairly promptly, however, just in case it is really lagging. note that hitting 'searching immediately' will pause updates as normal, if you need to set up something complex
    assuming deleted numbers are available, the stats now include total views/viewtime for deleted files too
    potential dupe counts are basically a search of 'at least one of the files matches the file list, can be pixel dupes, max distance 8'

    more boring work, file storage and misc:

    wrote a new object to handle the base storage location for file/thumbnail subfolders. it can do over/underweight calculations and handles the pending max_num_bytes setting for database migration locations
    all the new subfolder objects now track their base location using this new object, and all related load/save/display/edit code is now throwing this thing around instead of raw paths
    the underlying migration determination code is now ready to redistribute according to a max_num_bytes option. I've just got to update the UI, and, fingers crossed, I'll be able to add it next week
    added a bunch of unit tests for the new base storage location object. it separately reports whether it needs to shrink, wants to shrink, is able to expand, or is eager to expand
    improved how updated objects are substituted into all multi-column lists, it fixes a couple of odd storage/display sync bugs here and there
    a core image data loading/conversion tool inside the program is now a bit simpler and faster, and I think it also saves memory. it should speed up various sorts of unusual file loading

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

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myCollections will help you to catalog and manage all your numeric collections. Using just a title or a barcode you will be able to collect a lot of item details of your collections from the internet. It is also able to find contents automatically from your hard drive. It will ensure that you do not lose a book because you have lent it to someone, that you never forget what a movie is all about, that you can easily locate that album you want to listen to, and more. It is the perfect tool to catalog Applications, Books, Games, Music, Movies, TV show or Adult contents, into the same and unique tool.

Freeware

https://www.mycollections.fr/mycollections.html

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Changelog

    webp vulnerability:

    the main webp library (libwebp) that many programs use for webp support had a remote execution (very bad) vulnerability. you probably noticed your chrome/firefox updated this week, which was fixing this. we use the same thing via the Pillow library, which also rolled out a fix. I'm not sure how vulnerable hydrus ever was, since we are usually jank about how we do anything, but best to be safe about these things. there were apparently exploits for this floating around
    the builds today have the fix, so if you use them, update as normal and you are good
    if you run from source, rebuild your venv at your earliest convenience, and you'll get the new version of Pillow and be good. note, if you use the advanced setup, that there is a new question about Pillow
    unfortunately, Windows 7 users (or anyone else running from source on Python 3.7) cannot get the fix! it needs Pillow 10.0.1, which is >=Python 3.8. it seems many large programs are dropping support for Win 7 this year, so while I will continue to support it for a reasonable while longer, I think the train may be running out of track bros

    max size in file storage system:

    the migrate database dialog now allows you to set a 'max size' for all but one of your media locations. if you have a 500GB drive you want to store some stuff on, you no longer have to balance the weights in your head--just set a max size of 450GB and hydrus will figure it out for you. it is not super precise (and it isn't healthy to fill drives up to 98% anyway), so make sure you leave some padding
    also, please note that this will not automatically rebalance yet. right now, the only way files move between locations is through the 'move files now' button on the dialog, so if you have a location that is full up according to its max size rule and then spend a month importing many files, it will go over its limit until and unless you revisit 'migrate database' and move files again. I hope to have automatic background rebalancing in the near future
    updated the 'database migration' help to talk about this and added a new migration example
    the 'edit num bytes' widget now supports terabytes (TB)
    I fleshed out the logic and fixed several bugs in the migration code, mostly to do with the new max size stuff and distributing weights appropriately in various situations

    misc:

    when an image file fails to render in the media viewer, it now draws a bordered box with a brief 'failed to render' note. previously, it janked with a second of lag, made some popups, and left the display on eternal blank hang. now it finishes its job cleanly and returns a 'nah m8' 'image' result
    I reworked the Mr Bones layout a bit. the search is now on the left, and the rows of the main count table are separated for readability
    it turns out that bitmap (.bmp) files can support ICC Profiles, so I've told hydrus to look for them in new bitmaps and retroactively scan all your existing ones
    fixed an issue with the recent PSD code updates that was breaking boot for clients running from source without the psd-tools library (this affected the Docker build)
    updated all the 'setup_venv' scripts. all the formatting and text has had a pass, and there is now a question on (n)ew or (old) Pillow
    to stop FFMPEG's false positives where it can think a txt file is an mpeg, the main hydrus filetype scanning routine will no longer send files with common text extensions to ffmpeg. if you do have an mp3 called music.txt, rename it before import!
    thanks to a user, the inkbunny file page parser fetches the correct source time again (#1431)
    thanks to a user, the old sankaku gallery parser can find the 'next page' again
    removed the broken sankaku login script for new users. I recommend people move to Hydrus Companion for all tricky login situations (#1435)
    thanks to a user, procreate file parsing, which had the width/height flipped, is fixed. all existing procreate files will regen their metadata and thumbs

    client api:

    thanks to a user, the Client API now has a /get_files/render command, which gives you a 100% zoom png render of the given file. useful if you want to display a PSD on a web page!
    I screwed up Mr Bones's Client API request last week. this is now fixed
    Mr Bones now supports a full file search context on the Client API, just like the main UI now. same parameters as /get_files/search_files, the help talks about it. He also cancels his work early if the request is terminated
    Mr Bones gets several new unit tests to guarantee long-term ride reliability
    the Client API (and all hydrus servers) now return proper JSON on an error. there's the error summary, specific exception name, and http status code. the big bad 500-error-of-last-resort still tacks on the large serverside traceback to the summary, so we'll see if that is still annoying and split it off if needed
    the new /add_tags/get_siblings_and_parents now properly cleans the tags you give it, trimming whitespace and lowercasing letters and so on
    the client api version is now 52

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

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Changelog

    Blurhash:

    Thanks to a user's work, hydrus now calculates the blurhash of files with a thumbnail! (issue #394)
    If a file has no thumbnail but does have a blurhash (e.g. missing files, or files you previously deleted and are looking at in a clever view), it now presents a thumbnail generated from that blurhash
    All existing thumbnail-having files are scheduled for a blurhash calculation (this is a new job in the file maintenance system). if you have hundreds of thousands of files, expect it to take a couple of weeks/months to clear. if you need to hurry this along, the queue is under database->file maintenance
    Any time a file's thumbnail changes, the blurhash is scheduled for a regen
    For this first version, the blurhash is very small and simple, either 15 or 16 cells for ~34 bytes. if we end up using it a lot somewhere, I'd be open to making a size setting so you can set 8x8 or higher grids for actually decent blur-thumbs
    A new help->debug report mode switches to blurhashes instead of normal thumbs
    File history search:
    I did to the file history chart (help->view file history) what I did to mr bones a couple weeks ago. you can now search your history of imports, archives, and deletes for creator x, filetype y, or any other search you can think of
    I hacked this all together right at the end of my week, so please bear with me if there are bugs or dumb permitted domains/results. the default action when you first open it up should all work the same way as before, no worries™, but let me know how you get on and I'll fix it!
    There's more to do here. we'll want a hideable search panel, a widget to control the resolution of the chart (currently fixed at 7680 to look good blown up on a 4k), and it'd be nice to have a selectable date range
    In the longer term future, it'd be nice to have more lines of data and that chart tech you see on financial sites where it shows you the current value where your mouse is

    Client api:

    The file_metadata call now says the new blurhash. if you pipe it into a blurhash library and blow it up to an appopriate ratio canvas, it should just work. the typical use is as a placeholder while you wait for thumbs/files to download
    A new include_blurhash parameter will include the blurhash when only_return_basic_information is true
    File_metadata also shows the file's pixel_hash now. the algorithm here is proprietary to hydrus, but you can throw it into 'system:similar files' to find pixel dupes. I expect to add perceptual hashes too
    The help is updated to talk about this
    I updated the unit tests to deal with this
    The error when the api fails to parse the client api header is now a properly handled 400 (previously it was falling to the 500 backstop)
    The client api version is now 53

    Misc:

    I'm sorry to say I'm removing the Deviant Art artist search and login script for all new users, since they are both broken. DA have been killing their nice old API in pieces, and they finally took down the old artist gallery fetch. . there may be a way to finagle-parse their new phone-friendly, live-loading, cloud-deployed engine, but when I look at it, it seems like a much bigger mess than hydrus's parsing system can happily handle atm. the 'correct' way to programatically parse DA is through their new OAuth API, which we simply do not support. individual page URLs seem to still work, but I expect them to go soon too. Sorry folks, try gallery-dl for now--they have a robust OAuth solution
    Thanks to a user, we now have 'epub' ebook support! no 'num_words' support yet, but it looks like epubs are really just zips with some weird metadata files and a bunch of html inside, so I think this'll be doable with a future hacky parser. all your existing zip files wil be scheduled for a metadata rescan to see if they are actually epubs (this'll capture any secret kritas and procreates, too, I think)
    The main UI-level media object is now aware of a file's pixel hash. this is now used in the duplicate filter's 'these are pixel duplicates' statements to save CPU. the jank old on-the-fly calculation code is all removed now, and if these values are missing from the media object, a message will now be shown saying the pixel dupe status could not be determined. we have had multiple rounds of regen over the past year and thus almost all clients have full database data here, so fingers crossed we won't see this error state much if at all, but let me know if you do and I'll figure out a button to accelerate the fix
    The thumbnail right-click->open->similar files menu now has an entry for 'open the selection in a new duplicate filter page', letting you quickly resolve the duplicates that involve the selected files
    Pixel hash and blurhash are now listed, with the actual hash value, in the share->copy->hash thumbnail right-click menu
    Thanks to a user, 'MPO' jpegs (some weird multi-picture jpeg that we can't page through yet) now parse their EXIF correctly and should rotate on a metadata-reparse. since these are rare, I'm not going to schedule a rescan over everyone's jpegs, but if you see a jpeg that is rotated wrong, try hitting manage->regenerate->file metadata on its thumbnail menu
    I may have fixed a rare hang when highlighting a downloader/watcher during very busy network time that involves that includes that importer
    Added a warning to the 'getting started with installing' and 'database migration' help about running the SQLite database off a compressed filesystem--don't do it!
    Fixed thumbnail generation for greyspace PSDs (and perhaps some others)

    Boring cleanup:

    I cleaned some code and added some tests around the new blurhash tech and thumbs in general
    A variety of metadata changes such as 'has exif', 'has icc profile' now trigger a live update on thumbnails currently loaded into the UI
    Cleaned up some old file metadata loading code
    Re-sorted the job list dropdown in the file maintenance dialog
    Some file maintenance database work should be a bit faster
    Fixed some behind the scenes stuff when the file history chart has no file info to show

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

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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

Fixes and functionality changes for this release.

Changes * TV - Display image language if present on Poster tab, TMDB Thumb tab. * TV - Episode add DateAdded node to nfo, and options of set by Scrape Date, Episode Aired Date, or by Video file Create Date. * TV - fix dateadded if aired date is empty revert to scrape date. * Movie - language fix for TMDb images. * Movie - Fix rare bug in preferences that could cause an Oops. * Movie - Fixed MetaCritic data from IMDb. * Movie - Improve Poster tab layout by preferred language posters first, sorted by Votes, then fallback language and finally no language images. * Movie - Fix type and also Sorting Separate Movie Identifier when scraping. * Movie - Fix bug messing date added node if renaming movie folder during scrape.

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

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Changelog

Add movies: New movies were always set to version UNRATED.
IMDb import: Fixed importing of the IMDb top 250.
TV Mode: TV Series inside a collection were not properly supported.
Add from harddisk: Default Seen, Whishlist, Own and Shortlist were not set.
TheMoveDB import: Fixed an issue where TV Movies got the Sci-Fi' genre (e.g 'After the Fall (2010)').
User interface: Fixed overlapping text in IMDb Search result window for systems with font size set to 125% or higher.
Translations: Updated the Simplified Chinese, Finnish, German, Hebrew and Dutch translations.

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http://www.emdb.eu/

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Changelog

    misc:

    fixed the recent messed up colours in PSD thumbnail generation. I enthusiastically 'fixed' a problem with greyscale PSD thumbs at the last minute last week and accidentally swapped the RGB colour channels on coloured ones. I changed the badly named method that caused this mixup, and all existing PSD thumbs will be regenerated (issue #1448)
    fixed up some borked button-enabling and status-displaying logic in the file history chart. the cancel process should work properly on repeat now
    made two logical fixes to the archive count in the new file history chart when you have a specific search--archive times for files you deleted are now included properly, and files that are not eligible for archiving are discluded from the initial count. this should make the inbox and archive lines, which were often way too high during specific searches, a little better behaved. let me know what you see!
    added a checkbox to options->thumbnails to turn off the new blurhash thumbnail fallback
    'this has exif data, the other does not' statements are now calculated from cached knowledge--loading pairs in the duplicate filter should be faster now
    some larger image files with clever metadata should import just a little faster now
    if the process isn't explicitly frozen into an executable or a macOS App, it is now considered 'running from source'. various unusual 'running from source' modes (e.g. booting from various scripts that mess with argv) should now be recognised better

    boring code cleanup:

    moved 'recent tags' code to a new client db module
    moved ratings code to a new client db module
    moved some db integrity checking code to the db maintenance module
    moved the orphan table checking code to the db maintenance module
    fixed the orphan table checking code, which was under-detecting orphan tables
    moved some final references to sibling/parent tables from main db method to sibling and parent modules
    moved most of the image metadata functions (exif, icc profile, human-readable, subsampling, quantization quality estimate) to a new HydrusImageMetadata file
    moved the new blurhash methods to a new HydrusBlurhash file
    moved various normalisation routines to a new HydrusImageNormalisation file
    moved various channel scanning and adjusting code to a new HydrusImageColours file
    moved the hydrus image files to the new 'hydrus.core.images' module
    cleaned up some image loading code
    deleted ancient and no-longer-used client db code regarding imageboard definitions, status texts, and more
    removed the ancient OPENCV_OK fallback code, which was only used, superfluously, in a couple of final places. OpenCV is not optional to run hydrus, server or client

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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

Changelog

    Added: Details view for the audio file tracks.
    Added: "Lyrics" and "Audio files" search conditions in the track search dialog.
    Changed: Track search dialog.
    Changed: Many internal improvements.
    Fixed: Some minor bugs.

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https://www.gsoft4u.com/

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Changelog

    mpv crash fixes:

    tl;dr: mpv less crashy now
    if mpv fails to load a file but not in an outright 'error' manner (this appears to mean a file using a rare format that a submodule of mpv can't handle), the client now recognises this has happened, either right after the first load, or, if the error takes longer to occur, a subsequent status interrogation, and makes several new steps to restore program stability: disconnecting the mpv window from all commands, freezing the scanbar, loading the default hydrus.png as emergency backstop, and making a popup to let the user know what just happened. previously, Qt would get rapidly unhappy as it asked things to draw on screen over the null-state player, particularly if you show/hid the scanbar several times, and it would, if not removed promptly from screen, typically lead to a program crash
    furthermore, the scanbar now never interrogates the mpv window during its paint event. a mysterious interaction of C++ level objects during error state was causing the underlying instability here, and now I cannot reproduce this even if I try
    I also hardened the mpv window's 'no-media' state. now, rather than showing 'nothing' when media is unloaded, each mpv player now actually idles on a black png lol
    this tech will kick in for more extreme file failures, too, which have a different handler but seem to give the same detectable dump-out state
    fixed a silent-but-for-debug-mode error while destroying damaged mpv windows right when the program is terminating

    misc:

    thanks to a user, we now have import support for 'djvu' files. basically an open source PDF style format
    fixed pasting an image into 'system:similar files', which I missed updating in last week's code cleanup!
    a light but spammy legacy job that refreshed every search page's empty autocomplete every five minutes (to get updated system predicates/numbers) now only occurs to autocompletes on the current page. relatedly, when you switch to a search page you haven't looked at in five minutes, it triggers the same update immediately. this should save a tiny bit of idle CPU time and, more importantly, clear out the background job queue on larger-session clients
    I think I fixed some instances of the media viewer notes window initialising with a gigantic width on some OSes. if you often get a super wide notes window when you first open the media viewer, with it fixing itself when you cycle to a different file and back, let me know if things are any better
    when you have a popup message that has a 'show x files' button, usually from a subscription, that routine now excludes files that have been deleted since the button was created. it updates its existing file count on a click, also, to how many files it actually will generate. if you click one of these buttons, delete some files, and then click it again, it should no longer produce ghost files in the new search page. I'm going to add some more tech to optionally handle the system:hash predicate in a page in similar ways, 'locking' it to the current page content and preserving file sort so it works nice with 'remove files' etc..
    fixed a stupid typo that was swapping the 'allow non-local connections' server setting when making the interface for IPv6 hosts. there is a secondary check of all client IPs on every request, so I am confident this was not enabling non-local connections when undesired on IPv6, but it was disabling them by deploying the loopback interface when they should have been allowed! sorry for the trouble, and well done to the person who noticed this
    while pursing an odd and rare problem where a download job can start even though it should be waiting on a login process, I cleaned some of the login code and logic, lowering the timeout for session cookie expiring from 60 to 45 minutes and smoothing out some confusing status-checking in the pre-login stage. I could never reproduce the problem, though, so if you have had this issue, please let me know more and I'll see if I can reproduce this reliably

    simple cleanup:

    cleaned up some filetype parsing code that was getting a little messy, also reduced some overhead
    unified the thumbnail/file filetype parsing a little, with better fallback states when a hydrus thumbnail happens for some reason not to be a jpeg or png
    fixed an out of date menu reference in the 'help my media files are broke.txt' document. 'clear orphan files' is under 'file maintenance' now, not 'db maintenance'

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A feature rich, yet easy-to-use audio manager that delivers a collection of tools for playing songs, tagging and synchronizing with portable devices.

Freemium

Changelog

    Possibility to embed the right sidebar tabs into the Play queue (if docked into the right sidebar). This feature will allow you to see both the Play queue and any of the now playing tabs at the same time.
    Improved handling of possibly broken MPEG files. The File Analyser tool can now detect these files which are often caused by bad/long leading bytes.
    Improvements to importing of data from Media Monkey.
    Corrections to the CD-Ripper when requerying to rip anoter CD is invoked.
    Performance issues and some new logic for Optimize database.
    Component upgrades
    Corrections to drag and drop of tracks within a tracklist where tracks could gets removed from the list.
    Minor improvements when uding drag and drop from a track view to a playlist.
    Various user interface fixes for Smart playlists
    Optimizations when reading and updating files that are not in the library when working from the My computer view.
    Some minor performance improvements to the query builder used by smart playlists and the advanced search.
    Auto-calculate BPM is properly performed when using Apply to all in the Advanced tag editor.
    Some minor improvements to the light theme (better contrast)
    Improvements to reading of Ogg files.
    Updated database drivers for SQLite, MySql and PostgreSQL.
    Updated visual components.

Apart from the above major fixes, many minor things have been stabilized and optimized.

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https://www.imploded.com/helium

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Filmotech is a movie catalog software for movies on DVD, Blu-Ray, DiVX, CD, VHS and more. Filmotech is a freeware (but donations are welcome !). It's available for Mac and PC.

Changelog

    [NEW] New export module

    [UPD] Publishing API update for PHP 8
    [UPD] Removal of manual proxy management
    [UPD] Replacement of all links to the new Filmotech site in https
    [UPD] Improved alphabetical sorting of the movie list
    [UPD] Ability to increase the font of the movie list up to 18
    [UPD] Display of the maximum duration on 5 characters instead of 4

    [FIX] Fixed publishing bug when changing selection
    [FIX] Using the currency symbol defined in the preferences in the editing window of a movie
    [FIX] Fixed untranslated labels in published site

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