CineSync-v2.4

🎉 New Features

Added

• WebDAV Support: Added WebDAV support for remote file access.
• 4K Content Organization: Dedicated folder structure and improved default settings.
• TMDB ID & Season Number Support: Database schema updated to include TMDB IDs and season numbers.
• Cross-Platform Build Script: Added a build script for Go binaries.
• Dark Mode Persistence: UI now retains dark mode settings across sessions.
• New --force-extra Option: Allows overriding extra file handling.

Changed

• Episode Detection Improvements:
  • Improved handling of the NxM format with uppercase 'X'.
  • Refined anime episode mapping.
  • Trimmed long episode titles for better readability.
• Movie & Show Processing Enhancements:
  • Improved TV show processing and extra content handling.
  • Better file monitoring with directory modification tracking.
  • Recursive file scanning and robust symlink management.
• Search & Scoring Adjustments:
  • Enhanced TV show score calculation with year prioritization.
  • Improved movie title matching algorithm with better scoring.
• WebDAV & Dashboard UI Enhancements:
  • Improved WebDAV UI and added comprehensive stats.
  • Fixed WebDAV server conflicts and improved startup logic.
• Refactored Codebase: Reorganized components into modular sections.

Fixed

• Keyword & Filename Handling:
  • Fixed episode detection for uppercase 'X' format (NxM).
  • Fixed typo in keywords.json and updated keyword filter list.
  • Replaced colons with hyphens in media titles on Windows.
  • Prevented unintended removal of "Zero" from queries.
  • Improved movie search by incorporating root directory context.
• Cache & Performance Optimizations:
  • Fixed cache assignment in search_tv_show function.
  • Addressed cache key error by converting tuple keys to strings.
  • Reduced log verbosity for season and episode parsing.
• Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements:
  • Fixed symlink deletion for single episode entries.
  • Updated database when symlinks are deleted.
  • Tracked renamed files properly.
  • Fixed anime episode detection and show processing.
  • Fixed WebDAV template path construction using filepath.Join.
  • Ensured cinesync binary is built correctly in Docker image.
  • Fixed platform check for Windows and NT systems.

Removed

• EXTRAS_MAX_SIZE_MB: Code will now handle extras without this key.
• Deprecated Keywords: Removed "Austria" and redundant keyword entries.

Upgrade Notes:

• Upgrade your .env with the latest required values.
• Ensure database migrations are applied for TMDB ID & Season support.
• Rebuild Docker images to incorporate the latest fixes.
• Configure WebDAV authentication settings to ensure secure access. (default: admin)
• Ensure the WebDAV port is correctly set in Docker (default: 8082).

Contributors:
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

CineSync-v2.3

What's Changed

🎉 New Features

• Add force-show and force-movie command-line arguments – Added flags to force a file to be treated as a show or movie.
• Add interactive season and episode selection for unidentified TV content – Users can interactively select season and episode when the system cannot identify them.
• Add direct ID search support for movies and TV shows – Directly search for movies or TV shows using IDs for TMDb, IMDb, or TVDb.
• Add --disable-monitor flag to control background processes – A flag to disable background monitoring of processes.
• Optimize TMDb API searches by skipping single-word queries – Enhanced search optimization by ignoring single-word queries.
• Make resolution folders user-configurable – User-configurable folders for resolution settings.
• Normalize file paths for symlink comparison on Windows – Normalized file paths for better symlink comparison on Windows platforms.
• Force mode directory cleanup for symlinks – Added cleanup for directories in force mode during symlink creation.

🐛 Fixed

• Respect resolution structure setting when CineSync layout is disabled – Fixed issue where resolution structure settings weren't respected when layout was disabled.
• Preserve original filenames for extras during show processing – Ensured that original filenames for extras are maintained during show processing.
• Select first search result when user provides no input – Automatically selects the first search result when no input is provided by the user.
• Fix regex to prevent matching resolutions as episode patterns – Fixed regex to avoid matching resolution patterns as episode identifiers.
• Improve TV show search accuracy with episode patterns for TMDb – Enhanced accuracy of TV show search on TMDb, specifically with episode patterns.
• Improve anime episode extraction logic – Improved logic for extracting anime episode information.
• Fix episode detection regex false positives – Addressed regex issues that caused false positives for episode detection.
• Improve movie name extraction for secondary titles – Added a secondary layer for extracting movie names from filenames.
• Fix unpacking issue with 'tuple' object error in clean_query – Fixed error when unpacking results in clean_query.
• Fix delayed log output on Windows terminals – Fixed an issue causing delayed log output on Windows terminals.
• Fix query length validation from word count to character count – Adjusted validation to check query length in characters instead of words.
• Add database initialization to symlink cleanup – Ensured that database initialization is handled during symlink cleanup.
• Refine anime detection to prevent false positives – Improved detection to avoid misidentifying non-anime content as anime.
• Fix media info extraction with fallback to root folder – Corrected extraction of media info with fallback to the root folder for better detection.

New Contributors

• @amcgready made their first contribution in #52

Full Changelog: CineSync-v2.2...CineSync-v2.3

CineSync-v2.2

Changelog 🚀

🎉 New Features

• 🗂️ Configurable Anime Content Separation: Added support for separating anime content into dedicated folders based on configuration.
• 📁 Resolution-Based Folder Organization: Enhanced media organization by categorizing content into resolution-specific folders.
• 🌐 English-Language Results Filtering: Added filtering for English-language results in the search API.
• 🛠️ ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS Configuration: Introduced a configuration for filtering allowed file extensions.
• 🔄 Symlink Cleanup and Force Mode: Added a force mode for recreating symlinks and implemented cleanup.
• 🎭 Genre Detection: Improved detection of genres for movies and shows, with added support for anime genres.
• 🚀 Improved Threads and Scans: Updated threading and scanning logic to optimize performance during large directory processing.

🗄️ Database Management

• 🛠️ New DB Commands: Added support for database status, reset, vacuum, verification, search, export, and import commands.
• 🔍 File Search: Implemented a search feature for easy tracking to locate files based on specified patterns.
• 📤 Export and Import: Added functionality to save/load a database from a file.
• ⚙️ Manual Optimization: Enhanced user control over database maintenance with manual optimization options.

🐛 Fixed

• 🛤️ Destination Path Handling: Corrected handling for non-collection movie paths.
• 🧹 File Querying and Query Cleaning: Fixed issues with query cleaning functions and file queries.
• 📺 Show Detection Logic: Improved detection logic for TV shows.
• 📂 Database Path Check: Fixed a bug in database path checks during monitor mode.
• 🤝 Anime Tuple Handling: Updated search_tv_show function to handle tuple returns.
• 🚫 Undefined Variable Reference: Prevented undefined variable references in proper_name.
• 🎵 Audio and Resolution Parsing: Prevented audio bitrate and resolution numbers from being misidentified as episode numbers.
• 🈹 Language Detection: Improved language detection in parentheses from filenames.
• ✂️ Domain Removal: Improved logic for removing domain names in movie title cleaning.
• 📏 Extra Size Detection: Fixed inaccurate detection of extra file sizes to ensure proper categorization and handling.
• 🎬 Media Title Parsing: Improved title parsing logic and added better search fallbacks.
• 🗃️ Movie Processing Flow: Refactored the movie processing flow and improved directory handling.

❌ Removed

• 🗑️ Unused Files: Removed unnecessary files to clean up the repository.
• ⛔ Archive Argument: Removed the unused --archive argument from database commands.

⚡ Enhanced

• 🔍 File Monitoring and Symlink Management: Improved file monitoring and symlink management logic for better performance.
• 🏷️ Media Metadata Configuration: Enhanced media metadata tagging and configuration.
• 📜 Logging: Improved logging across various functionalities.

CineSync-v2.1

🚀 [Features]

• Enhanced keyword and release group handling, along with episode API search for better anime detection.
• Improved media search with enhanced query cleaning and fallback strategies.
• Added TVDB folder ID support for enhanced TV show organization.
• Added flexible RENAME_TAGS configuration for better media file naming customization.
• Enhanced anime processing logic with improved detection and normalization.
• Added anime resolution support in show processing for better quality detection.
• Implemented fallback search logic based on directory name to improve show matching in the search_tv_show function.
• Improved movie filename tag and detail handling in the renaming process.
• Introduced a new CINESYNC_LAYOUT configuration option for better library management.
• Enhanced filtering and processing logic specifically for anime content.

🐛 [Fixes]

• Improved anime and show file renaming logic.
• Refined season extraction logic for shows to handle varied file structures.
• Improved episode and season detection for anime files.
• Preserved the original episode number during file renaming.
• Enhanced title standardization and updated keyword set for better matching.
• Improved episode regex matching to handle varied filename formats.
• Improved TV show detection for both file and directory paths.
• Enhanced episode number handling in the anime processor and improved resolution handling.
• Removed unnecessary spaces between media info tags when renaming.
• Enhanced file extra handling in show and symlink processing.

🔨 [Refactors]

• Simplified anime file detection by using predefined patterns for better efficiency.

❤️ [Thanks]

• Special thanks to @runaway_189 for contributing the official logo. 🎨

CineSync-v2.0

Changelog CineSync-v.2.0

Enhancements:

• Add Docker support: Added Docker configuration for containerized deployment.
• Implement inotify monitoring with lock file mechanism: Integrated inotify for real-time monitoring with a lock file mechanism.
• Integrate database operations into directory monitoring script: Added database operations to enhance directory monitoring capabilities.
• Enabled separation of movie files into collection-based folders: Implemented functionality to organize movies into collection-based folders.
• Folder creations based on resolutions: Added logic for creating folders based on resolution types.
• TMDb ID support on folder name: Added support for using TMDb IDs in folder names.

Fixes:

• File path normalization for consistent storage and retrieval: Fixed issues with file path normalization to ensure consistent storage and retrieval.
• Refine Title Extraction: Improved title extraction logic for better accuracy.
• Add fallback for resolution extraction: Added fallback logic to use folder name if filename extraction fails.
• Incorrect directory classification for movies with 'Episode' in the name: Fixed issues with directory classification for movies incorrectly labeled as episodes.
• Enhance TV show search function with multiple fallback strategies: Enhanced TV show search function with additional fallback strategies.
• Add Global Offline Support for Shows: Added global offline support for handling shows.
• Fix handling of movie search results and fallback logic: Improved handling of movie search results and fallback logic.
• Implement error handling in symlink creation process: Added error handling to the symlink creation process.
• Missing dependencies: Addressed missing dependencies and updated the package requirements.

Features:

• Add movie collections feature to organize movies by collection: Added functionality to organize movies into collections.
• Add --auto-select argument to execute_python_script function: Added a new argument to automate script execution.
• Add support for matching episode patterns with space between season and episode numbers: Added support for episode patterns with space between season and episode numbers.
• Enhance fallback search by bypassing word count check in title standardization: Improved fallback search logic by bypassing the word count check.
• Update extract_resolution_from_filename to prioritize 2160p and exclude 4K: Updated resolution extraction to prioritize 2160p and exclude 4K.
• Add support for organizing extras in a dedicated 'Extras' folder: Added support for organizing extras in a dedicated folder.
• Add logic for TMDb API check and offline mode support: Implemented logic for TMDb API checks and offline mode.

Refactoring:

• Refactor codebase to Python and update structure: Refactored the codebase to Python and improved the structure.

CineSync-v1.0

CineSync-v1.0

I'm excited to announce the release of Version 1.0 of the CineSync project! This version includes several key features and improvements that enhance functionality and user experience.

Key Features in this Release:

• Added file renaming functionality based on TMDB to streamline media management.
• Enhanced directory handling with the option to override the default structure for more flexibility in file organization.
• Updated logging features for detailed debugging and system monitoring.
• Support for handling multiple folders during scans and specific movie files.
• New cleanup function to automatically remove empty directories.
• Skips and deletes rar files if symlinked, improving space management.

Improvements:

• Improved error handling and system compatibility across different operating systems.
• Optimized performance to handle large file directories more efficiently.
• Enhanced UI stability to prevent minor glitches during script execution.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with incorrect path usage under certain conditions.
• Addressed a bug in the logging module that occasionally caused crashes.
• Separate log files are now generated for movies and series to prevent data mismatch.
• Refined series filters for more accurate categorization.
• Improved resolution detection in folder names.
• Fixed a bash path error and improved folder handling.

Thank you for your continued support!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/sureshfizzy/CineSync/commits/CineSync-v1.0