v2.6.4

New features

• Audiobook mining tab (#71). Queue audiobook and subtitle pairs and mine. Cover art becomes each card's Picture.

• Expression audio on cards (#73). Enable in Settings->Anki and assign a note field.

  • Audio source chain. Expression audio is pulled from an ordered, reorderable list of sources: local audio packs if added, then JapanesePod101, then Google Translate. First hit wins. JapanesePod101+GoogleTTS is the zero-setup default.
  • Local audio pack import. Add a local-audio-yomichan-compatible folder (ajt_japanese, nhk16, forvo_ja, jpod). Indexed in place, so audio files don't move.
  • Google Translate TTS. Free fallback for words no pack or JapanesePod101 covers. Off by default.

Fixed

• i+1 filter checks all unknown lemmas, not just mineable ones (#74).
• Card style presets no longer bleed into unrelated card content.
• Duplicate media filenames no longer re-encoded in batch stores.
• A media file that vanishes mid-run counts as a failure instead of silently succeeding empty.
• A corrupt anki_fields value survives config load instead of crashing.

Repo

• Added the new Anki Miner icon to README.

(Skipped v2.6.3 due to ffmpeg bundling error breaking release.)

Full Changelog: v2.6.2...v2.6.4

v2.6.2

New features

• YouTube playlist support (#70). Paste a playlist URL and it expands into the queue. Size cap with confirm dialog (default 100), duplicates skipped, mix/radio URLs treated as plain videos.
• Source field on cards (#69). Stamp show/episode (or YouTube title) + timestamp into a mapped Anki field.
• Card styling presets. Default, Yomitan / Lapis Classic, Minimal / Clean, or None.
• YouTube word curation (#65). Review words before mining, with embedded player and multi-dictionary lookup.

Changed

• Python 3.11+ required for PyPI/source installs. Standalone bundles unaffected. Dependency floors raised.
• Cancel actually cancels in every mining mode; in-flight ffmpeg/yt-dlp killed, subprocess calls time-bounded.
• Closing the window no longer abandons running work.

Fixed

• Anki note type and field mapping validated up front (#52); target deck auto-created.
• Non-ASCII filenames no longer crash extraction on Windows.
• A failed episode in a batch no longer aborts the rest or loses finished cards (#51).
• YouTube reliability: cookies-file works for age-restricted videos, one bad video can't kill the queue, live streams handled, no more close hang mid-curation.
• Security: yt-dlp argument injection blocked; Jisho definitions HTML-escaped.
• Card media no longer silently missing on large sessions; uploads chunked, earlier batches persist on failure.
• Local DBs survive momentary locks; "known" marks survive a DB rebuild.
• Episode-number matching: numeric titles ("86", "Mob Psycho 100") no longer steal the episode slot.
• Dictionary fixes: Yomitan image sizing (#68), UTF-16 surrogate scrub on import (#67), paths with spaces.
• Long tail of settings, batch-queue, deck-builder, and curation fixes in CHANGELOG.md.

Repo

• New app icon: white 鉱 on black.
• ~920 lines of dead code removed, big GUI classes split, ~2900 tests.
• Supply chain pinned; tag workflows gated on green CI.
• Welcomed @Geniusssmit and @cskings14.

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.6.2

v2.6.1

Fixed

• YouTube mining broken with "n challenge solving failed" / "Only images are available" (#64).
• Cards missing audio/picture on large YouTube batches.
• Long error text clipped in YouTube queue row.

Repo

• Added a looping demo GIF + link to the full demo video in README.md.

Minor release, see v2.6.0 release notes for latest new features.

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0

New features

• Bundled ffmpeg: Windows, macOS, and Linux AppImage/portable builds ship ffmpeg, no separate install. (.deb, PyPI, and source installs still use system ffmpeg.)
• Text size control (#63): Settings > Themes dropdown scales the whole UI (0.5x to 2x).
• Custom YouTube cookies (#62): pull cookies from a browser or file for age-restricted or bot-gated videos.
• Kana-only filters (#57): optionally drop hiragana-only or katakana-only words.
• Word curation in batch mining (#60): the per-episode curation popup is now opt-in for batch runs.
• Bundled name wordsets (#59): JMnedict proper-noun wordsets with per-wordset exclusion checkboxes.
• Word Curator play/pause (#55).
• Recent pairs remember the subtitle offset (#61).
• Wider subtitle offset range: now ±300 seconds (#53 - @sdobrau's contribution).

Performance

• Subtitles tokenized once per line, MeCab and dictionary chain pre-warmed off the GUI thread, batched dictionary lookups and AnkiConnect media uploads, memoized furigana/reading, cached Deck Builder tokenization, faster Word Curator.
  Overall much faster launch and slightly faster mining and navigation.

Fixed

• AV1 in-app preview disabled so it stops spamming decode errors. AV1 media still mines; only the preview is skipped.
• Horizontal overflow in the Episode Mining tab (#56).
• AppImage desktop shortcut broken on relaunch.
• "All Themes" button opened the wrong tab.
• Word curation: cancel no longer leaves a stray dialog; confirming with nothing selected now counts as a completed zero-card run, not a cancel.
• Progress-bar percentage glitch, mismatched path bars, Max Sentence Duration tooltip, About dialog polish.

Repo

• ffmpeg GPL license, source offer, and About attribution for the bundled binaries.
• CI asserts bundled encoders (incl. libwebp_anim) in the release smoke test.
• Restored the CI lint job (ruff + black).
• Welcomed first-time contributor @sman68634.
• 30 stars achieved :).

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0

v2.5.0

New features

• Deck Builder tab: point at a folder of episode/subtitle pairs and mine the whole show into one frequency-ranked deck. Pick ALL, top N, or coverage % and preview before any cards are created.
• Word Curator video player (#41): in-place playback of the source line on every row.
• Multi-dictionary lookup in Word Curator (#43): every enabled offline dict's hit shown side-by-side, not just first-hit-wins.
• Custom card styling (#44): generated cards ship with styling for the standard fields. No manual Anki note-type tweaks.
• User-curated known-words list (#42): "Add to Known Words" button in Word Curator. Persists, skipped on every future run, survives DB rebuilds.
• Yomitan pitch-accent zip importer: Settings, Dictionary, Pitch Accent File now accepts a Yomitan zip. Imports run in the background.
• Configurable dictionary folder location (#45): point the dictionary store at a different drive.
• Exclude Anki decks from known-word lookup (#38): pick decks under Settings, Filtering to ignore on the unknown-word check.
• Dracula and Alucard themes (#48). All previously-added themes are now exposed in the Themes panel. 29 themes total.

Fixed

• Batch mining pairing error (#39): same-episode collisions no longer collapse every video onto the first subtitle.
• addNotes duplicate error aborting the rest of a batch: duplicates dropped client-side before AnkiConnect sees them.
• Deck exclusion broken on names with _ or *: wildcards escaped before query injection.
• DeckBuilder worker lifecycle on app close: torn down cleanly, build_finished suppressed on cancel.
• Deck Builder built far fewer cards than the preview promised: two new config flags (bypass_optional_filters, allow_duplicate_cards) skip the per-episode reduction filters and let Anki re-card across decks so the build matches the preview exactly. Standard mining unchanged.
• Deck Builder tab stuck on "Cancelling…": button state now resets on every worker finish, not just on cancel.
• Progress bar stranded or jumped backwards across all mining tabs: new stage_weighted_progress helper maps per-stage progress to a single monotonic 0–100 across the run, shared by Single Episode and Deck Builder tabs.

Repo

• Welcomed first-time contributors @BDubbB, @Joywinbarboza, @chicorykvass.

Full Changelog: v2.4.7...v2.5.0

v2.4.7

Fixed

• Fixed #36.

Full Changelog: v2.4.6...v2.4.7

v2.4.6

New Features

• Manual audio track override (#35): new "Tracks" button next to "Test Timing" in Single Episode tab. Pick which audio stream to use instead of letting auto-detect choose. Same track flows through preview and final cards.

Changed

• Snappier UI: table updates no longer flicker, Word Preview search no longer stutters, Analytics tab opens faster on repeat clicks, theme star clicks feel closer to instant.
• Faster startup: app paints sooner, YouTube tab loads on demand, dictionary scan skips unchanged entries.
• Faster mining: less duplicate work per episode, larger AnkiConnect batches, history queries indexed.

Fixed

• Frequency filter ignored some words (#34): Max Frequency Rank now drops words missing from the frequency list. Set it to 0 to keep old behavior.
• Audio track override could be ignored after swapping the video file: stale stream list now cleared at the start of each run.

Repo

• CONTRIBUTORS.md added. Auto-generated table of everyone who filed an issue, opened a PR, started a discussion, or commented. Refreshes on activity and welcomes new arrivals by username in the commit message.
• Special Thanks section added to README for exceptional contributors. First entry: StyraxBenzoin.

Full Changelog: v2.4.5...v2.4.6

v2.4.5

New Features

• Sentence length filter (#33): drop cards whose example sentence exceeds an audio-duration or character cap. Applied after i+1 sentence selection so the cap binds the final chosen sentence.
• Theme variants grouped by family: light/dark variants nest under one expandable row in Settings > Themes. Tri-state family star bulk-favorites the whole group in a single click.
• Yomitan-format frequency dictionaries: Settings > Word Filtering > Frequency Source now accepts a Yomitan freq zip alongside frequency.csv. Rejects malformed archives (format != 3, non-positive ranks) with a clear error.
• Background-threaded frequency import with modal progress, cancel, and overwrite confirmation.

Fixed

• Theme colours now apply to the Analytics tab (was inheriting host palette).

Full Changelog: v2.4.4...v2.4.5

v2.4.4

Fixed

• Remove dictionary now works on Windows after mining (#30). SQLite handle leak kept index.sqlite locked.
• Re-import dictionary now works on Windows after mining (#32). Same lock blocked importer's atomic rename.
• Single-file + batch tabs also release dictionary handles on idle (gap from #32 fix). Earlier release hook only covered YouTube tab.
• CI smoke-min-deps job derives floor pins from pyproject.toml instead of hardcoded values.

Full Changelog: v2.4.3...v2.4.4

v2.4.3

New features

• Multi-URL YouTube queue. Paste several URLs, probe each on Add, mine sequentially. Per-item retry-once on yt-dlp fetch errors. Replaces previous single-URL system.
• Theme settings panel. New Settings tab 'Themes' lists every shipped and user theme; click to live-preview, star to favorite, Revert to undo.

Fixes

• Per-row Re-import for dictionaries was undiscoverable (#29). Right-click menu on dictionary rows now exposes Re-import and Remove.
• Remove did nothing on dictionary rows outside the main selection path (#30). Same right-click menu now exposes Remove.
• Bold target word landed on the wrong characters in SentenceFurigana when a bracketed reading sat next to the target (#31).
• Star toggle in the Themes panel was visually clipped.
• YouTube progress bar stuck after Clear, cancel, or an unhandled worker exception.

Removed

• Single-URL YouTubeWorkerThread (replaced by YouTubeQueueWorker).

Full Changelog: v2.4.2...v2.4.3