Nostalgex 1.0.26

1.0.26 is three releases in one. The App Store went straight from 1.0.23 to 1.0.26, so this release rolls up everything from 1.0.24, 1.0.25 and 1.0.26.

The short version: it simply works a lot better now.

Reliability

• Large library crash fixed. Very large libraries no longer crash right after the guide appears. The library is now saved in small pieces in the background, and the next launch opens from the saved copy instead of scanning again.
• Emby libraries load again. The scan was sending Emby a request shaped for Jellyfin, which returned a 404 on the very first call. Emby now gets its own requests.
• Plex titles fixed. A title cleaner meant for music videos was trimming every film with a dash in its name, so Spider-Man became "Man" and went missing from channels that look for it by name. Films keep their full titles now.
• Clear "why won't this play" cards. When a programme can't play, the channel shows a card explaining why instead of silently skipping ahead.
• Stalled streams recover. If a Jellyfin or Emby stream stalls, Nostalgex asks the server again instead of sitting on a frozen picture.
• Multiple versions and multipart files on Plex. Films with more than one version, or split across several files, play the right version and start in the right part.
• Jellyfin: MP4 files saved with an .mkv extension play, and FIND SERVERS ON MY NETWORK fills in your server address.
• Fuller channels: more channels fill up using TMDB and IMDb data, and whole film series stay off channels outside their genre.

Emby is now officially supported 🎉

A big, warm thank you to the Emby community. You sent a ton of feedback, logs and testing, and that is what got these fixes out. Emby is now officially supported alongside Plex and Jellyfin.

Headline feature: Franchises

FRANCHISES goes through your library and finds the film series in it: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Rocky, American Pie, whatever you own. Each series gets its own channel and its own switch in Settings.

Server collections come along too, sorted into FRANCHISES or OTHER COLLECTIONS. NOTABLE STARS is gone: actor and director sets moved into OTHER COLLECTIONS, and sets like John Wick and The Hunger Games are filed as franchises.

Quality of life

• iCloud sync (Settings › CONNECTION): every Apple TV on your Apple ID shares the same lineup and settings. Off by default, and server logins never leave the device.
• REPORT PLAYBACK: shows what you're watching in your server's Now Playing and marks a film watched once you've seen most of it, without flooding Continue Watching with everything you surfed past.
• Phone web tuner: nostalgex.app now works properly on a phone, with full width video, the guide in the right place, and the controls behind one menu.
• Tip jar in Settings: Popcorn, TV Dinner, Pizza Night. A tip is just a thank you.

Thanks

Thank you to @w6trp for #18, #19, #20 and #21, all in this release.

For the longer story behind these changes, see docs/DEVLOG.md.

App Store: apps.apple.com/app/nostalgex
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