Most files that are not fansub releases carry no chapters, so they had no
skip button. AniSkip knows where an episode's opening and ending are, by
MyAnimeList id and episode number. ani.zip sends each entry's MyAnimeList
id and enrichment now keeps it on every episode row; schema v14 adds the
column and marks AniList titles un-enriched, deleting nothing, as v13 did.
When a file has loaded with no chapter naming an opening or ending, and
its length is known, each client asks once, with enrichment on only. The
answer lives as long as the file is open. with_skip_ranges cuts it into
the chapters as chapters named Opening and Ending, so the skip button,
auto-skip, the up-next countdown and the seek bar's marks all work
through the code a chaptered file uses. A file's own opening or ending
always wins over AniSkip's.
PRIVACY.md lists what is sent: the MyAnimeList id, the episode number and
the file's length.
With AniList chosen, a title AniList has no match for is now searched on
TVmaze, keyless, before it is given up on. One provider for the whole library
left live-action shows in a share of anime unmatched, and switching to TMDB
would have dropped every AniList match, chain and shelf.
The service holds a chain of providers. A match is stored under the provider
that gave it, and enrichment and refreshes go to that provider; a miss is
stored under the last provider asked, and is_fresh only trusts a miss from the
end of the chain, so AniList misses stored before this are asked again at once.
A provider failure still ends the lookup instead of falling through.
The hand matcher searches every provider in the chain and labels each result
with its source. TVmaze is never offered in the settings and is not asked
about titles known to be films.
AniList's per-season lookup searched for "<title> 2nd Season" and the
scorer picked the base entry again, so Attack on Titan seasons 2-4 and
Jigokuraku season 2 were captioned with season one's names. Episode
names came from streamingEpisodes, which is partial and numbered however
a streaming site counted. Bleach S17 and Mushishi S02/S03 had none.
AniList now walks SEQUEL relations from the match and takes each
entry's episodes from ani.zip, which carries TVDB's season, number and
absolute number. An episode row keeps all three plus its place in the
AniList entry. EpisodeGuide::get matches whichever numbering a file
uses and never answers from another season.
Episodes and fanart are stored as one enrichment. The episode list is
replaced even when empty, and the enrichment is recorded as asked, so a
film is not re-asked every run. Storing a different match drops the old
entry's episode rows. AniList's 4.75:1 bannerImage is no longer stored
as the 16:9 backdrop; ani.zip's 1920x1080 fanart is used instead.
Schema v9 adds the columns and deletes the AniList episode rows and
banners. Matches are kept. Desktop, Android and the CLI now share
service::plan and MetadataService::work. The settings text names
ani.zip. Audit and roadmap in docs/METADATA.md; bug entry B61.
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