MediaChips v1.10.0

Added

• Markers Timeline Studio — edit marks directly on the player timeline: drag to move, edge handles to resize, and draw a new range mark on empty track; a live draft clip mirrors the add/edit dialog while other marks dim
• Compact List view — dense single-column row list (thumbnail, name, one-line meta summary, rating/favorite, menu) alongside Card/Timeline/Masonry/Minimal; works for any media type and on the tag grid
• Drag-to-copy tags — drag a tag onto another media card to copy it (Shift moves); first-run feature hints
• Library folder browse — browse folders in a grid with a cinematic big-preview HUD (equal insets, click-to-seek timeline, Escape to close) and folder hotkeys
• Library sidebar edit mode — reorder and show/hide Home, media types, Folders, Playlists, and Markers via a pencil control
• Theme & gradient editor — derive theme colors; redesigned gradient editor with full-width preview, color swatch rows, and unified apply/cancel; refined theme color dialog

Changed

• Control deck — updated appearance and pinned-meta icons; added Review mode to the app-bar menu
• Grid view — hide the image resolution overlay in card and masonry views; square 1:1 previews for non-video list items
• Player sidebars — pin mark/playlist filters over scrolling lists; glass mark form; compact autocompletes and chips
• Markers Studio — consolidate mark editing into the player inspector; merge favorite into the bookmark icon row; attach jump/sync controls to time fields
• Dependencies — update Pinia to v4 and override sharp/esbuild to clear high-severity npm audit advisories

Fixed

• Inspector tag chips — show names instead of IDs after values hydrate; tighten country chip spacing
• 1.9.0 catalog bugs — tabs, inspector, tag entry, path parse, thumbs, and hover keep their own state; player playlists load the full gallery instead of the current page
• LowDB migration / restore — 0.11.x allowed the same tag name in different categories; 1.5+ requires globally unique names. Restore now renames collisions instead of failing with tags_name_normalized_unique (which left videos imported and tags missing). Failed restores also show an error instead of appearing to do nothing.

MediaChips v1.9.0

Added

• Review mode — fullscreen keyboard cataloging: digits for rating, F for favorite, Q–O for pinned tags, arrows/HJKL to move; grid trailers, faces, and image originals; Inbox handoff (D = done & next)
• New media Inbox — Home widget and sidebar for recently added files that still lack tags/rating, plus lost files from watched folders
• Inspector inline editing — edit rating, favorite, tags, and pinned metadata in the browser inspector; view/edit toggle (header or Appearance); auto-save when switching items; full editor remains for thumbs and scrapers
• Trash — soft-delete with 30-day restore for media, tags, markers, playlists, and saved views; optional nav entry; permanent-delete in confirm dialogs
• Saved views — saved filters now also store sort, group-by, and card size
• Session focus — pin a tag/performer as a workspace: browse with or without it, apply to the selection
• Home Similar — CLIP-neighbor widget with hybrid ranking, series diversity, score floors, Continue exclusions, and a context-menu entry
• Home calendar — Media Created calendar widget and empty-state discovery CTAs
• Tag spotlight — one random tag on Home with tips for missing profile/media
• Command palette — ⌘/Ctrl+K command mode in global search (Inbox, Review, Trash, navigation, settings)
• Library setup wizard — Prepare library with phased steps and per-step ETA
• Idle auto-lock — optional lock after idle minutes when password protection is on
• Media Created dates — extract from EXIF/container/filesystem, then sort, filter, group, and backfill
• Watched folders — folder icons, exclude paths, Inbox-first nav, and manual rescan
• Sticky control deck — pin the sort/filter toolbar while scrolling
• Filter OR join — AND/OR between filter rows (saved with views)
• Player → library — jump to the current item in the library; persist volume/mute
• Folder sidecars — prefer folder.jpg / cover.jpg next to media for thumbs
• Tag assignment counts — inspector shows how many media vs nested tags use a tag
• Bookmark text on cards — show bookmark notes in the card description

Changed

• Database settings — Essential / Search & AI / Experts around the prepare-library wizard; backups, cleanup, and progress polish
• Settings — grouped switches into panels; image viewer in its own card; clearer empty states
• Dialogs — shared xl cards, headers, and outlined fields; bulk path-edit preview table
• Home widgets — Vuetify skeletons while loading
• Adult scraper — clearer result cards
• Filters / inspector — denser chrome; clearer Find similar menu
• Tray icon — outer outline with filled inner U
• Dependencies — pin tar and protobufjs to clear critical CVEs

Fixed

• macOS Dock — restore the main window when it is hidden or closed; Check for Updates works with the window closed
• File-move WebSockets — reconnect after a cold start
• Windows Portable — taskbar icon
• OR filters — tag-join queries use WHERE so mixed AND/OR filters return the right rows
• Documentation tree — expand/collapse plus a tooltip
• Player control tips — wording and layout
• i18n — French strings that broke the Vite dependency scan and saved-views copy

Upgrade notes

• Delete now moves items to Trash for 30 days instead of removing them immediately; choose permanently delete in the confirm dialog to skip Trash
• Existing libraries migrate on first launch (Media Created dates, saved-view join, Trash)

MediaChips v1.8.1

Fixed

• Windows Electron shell — window minimize/maximize/close and Help → DevTools work again; the preload script no longer fails inside app.asar looking for shared/electron/ipc
• System menu shortcuts — accelerator labels are spaced and right-aligned in the Windows title-bar menus
• Windows CI / postinstall — bundle Electron preload via the esbuild JS API so npm ci no longer fails spawning the esbuild binary on Windows runners

MediaChips v1.8.0

Added

• New database starter meta — optional Tags category (parser-enabled, pinned to Videos/Images) when adding a database; on by default
• Home chart stats widget — line chart of media/tag activity (added, viewed, edited) with 7D/30D/90D/1Y/All ranges (enabled by default)

Fixed

• Library grid after API hiccups — a failed list refresh no longer wipes an already-loaded page back to “Nothing here yet / add files”; file-existence check errors no longer mark cards as missing
• Face recognition on Windows — temp mediachips-faces-* cleanup no longer fails the scan with EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink (read-only / locked files after frame extract)
• Release build — fix vue-tsc errors in mixed-tag autocomplete menu props so the frontend CI/release build can ship

Changed

• Settings sidebar — clearer section titles (e.g. Library & tags, Database & backups) with stronger nav label weight

Removed

• Video frame auto-tag / object recognition tagging — removed Enhance “Auto-tag from what’s on screen”, Recognize objects, and related APIs; CLIP visual-search indexing and chapter labeling remain

MediaChips v1.7.1

Fixed

• Release build — restore missing percent on generation stream events so vue-tsc / frontend CI can ship again

MediaChips v1.6.1

Fixed

• App exit — App → Exit and force-quit paths reliably close the window and process (no hang when tray/minimize-to-tray interferes)
• Open file folder — reveal/open in the OS file manager no longer fails with “Command failed” under the Electron Node API child (especially Windows Explorer exit code 1)
• Drag-and-drop add — capture real file paths in preload so drops are not rejected as unmatched extensions
• Library infinite scroll — a failed page append no longer wipes the loaded list back to “add files”
• View zoom — use CSS zoom instead of Chromium zoom factor so nested settings scroll still works when zoomed

Changed

• Home widgets — soft outlined cards for media, tags, and markers with clearer marker borders

MediaChips v1.6.0

Added

• CLIP semantic search — describe a scene to find media; query auto-translate for UI languages; play hits at the matching grid tile
• Find scene — visual search from a described moment; open hits near the matching timeline tile
• Similar media wall — explore CLIP neighbors with health tips and an explore loop
• Post-add smart wizard — path tags, grids, faces, CLIP index, chapters, neighbor-tag suggestions, organize, and TPDB scrape steps
• Library health score — safe fix queue and snoozeable alerts
• Clip Studio — select, export, and reveal clips; reels and multi-select for markers and playlists
• NL → playlist mix — build a mix from filters / CLIP from the filter bar and global search
• Blind Person auto-tags — optional Person N tags for unlabeled face clusters (off by default)
• Auto chapters — scene + silence detection with readable titles (heuristics / Local AI / CLIP-aware)
• Any-tag player marks — favorite, bookmark/chapter, or any library tag; no separate Marks in player flag
• Stash / Jellyfin bidirectional sync — pull metadata and push ratings/tags for already matched media
• Person timeline appearances — seek and play appearances on performer tag pages
• Media merge — keep one item and remap linked metadata; duplicates review in Database settings
• More like this — visual-hash neighbors on the media list
• Text / audio — in-app text preview and search; audio covers from ID3
• Zip galleries — import images from zip archives; path tags from folder/zip paths
• Chip recipes — installable meta/chip presets for common library setups
• Local AI assist — filter goals and explicit assist in global search

Changed

• Playback — prefer direct play before live transcode; safer hover preview remux/live fallback for layout-broken MP4s
• Face match default — new databases use Suggest only (not auto-apply)
• Smart wizard — Enhance now as the safe one-click default; CLIP / neighbor tags suggest for review instead of auto-applying
• Path tag parser — enabled by default for new/first-assigned tag categories (opt out in field settings)
• Meta manager — Capabilities tab renamed to Built-in fields; clearer category menus
• Edit dialog — compact tag color control and clearer value restore buttons
• Settings — compact vertical nav on mobile; remove obsolete app cache-clear UI
• API recovery — reconnect after local API disconnects without a full app restart
• Browser layout — sole library layout; mobile-friendly control deck; denser edit dialogs
• Huge galleries — virtual masonry for large image sets; infinite card grids stay non-virtual with throttled loads and less CLS
• Performance — Slim SQL projections, Sharp for hashes/faces, API in a separate Electron Node child, larger image data window with safer thumbs; faster auto chapters

Fixed

• Packaged app launch — rewrite Electron ../api|app|shared requires onto .backend-build so the asar finds modules after the packaging change (fixes missing ../api/types/errors on startup); spawn the API child with a real directory cwd (asar path is a file → ENOTDIR); ship Drizzle SQL migrations in the asar for new databases
• Hover preview — wrong scrub-frame flash, sticky unavailable cache (TTL), leave fade / scroll guard
• WebM duration — probe packet PTS when container metadata is missing (live chunks / playability)
• Find scene / mix playlists — semantic seeks land on the matching tile instead of EOF or stolen resume
• FFmpeg thumbs — single-image thumbnail generation edge cases
• Semantic index UX — partial CLIP index no longer looks “ready”; locale strings for new features
• Duplicates merge — confirm before single-group merge, especially when deleting loser files
• Locale switching — image viewer chrome and related UI polish
• Feedback bugs — starter meta, shift-select, tag counts, relaunch, page settings, splash

MediaChips v1.5.0

Added

• Browser layout — Eagle-style library view with tags sidebar, inspector panel, compact control deck, and docked filters panel
• Collapsible sidebar — icon rail with library links, tag categories, settings, and tracked folders
• All Tags page — manage categories and move tags in bulk
• Duplicate finder — scoped duplicate search and visual grid fingerprinting
• Grid multi-select — keyboard range and shift selection in item grids
• Path-regex tags — extract tags from paths in array meta fields with multi-OS presets and regex builder UX
• Mixed tag input — combined tag entry UX
• Native drag-out — drag media cards to the desktop with a compact ghost
• TPDB photo slots — assign photos by size and resolution
• Context menu — copy tag name; move tags between categories

Changed

• Tag page — auto full/minimal layout from hero images; remove compact mode and manual design switcher; polish quick filters and metadata panel
• Inspector and filters — collapsible inspector, compact filter chips, unified sort and group-by controls
• Settings — video preview settings, toast swipe-to-dismiss, reordered sections
• Meta editing — Basics/Pinning tabs on media types; improved field editing and path-regex UX
• Tag names — enforce global uniqueness; default category settings

Fixed

• Watched folders — hide untracked or disabled folders in navigation; fix false active state on sidebar rail links
• Big preview — keep video alive on right-click for thumb capture; smoother blur and backdrop dismiss
• openPath IPC — failures that showed "reply was never sent"
• Toasts — leave animation, timeout progress, and pre-hide flash
• Media drop overlay — clear stuck state; resolve bundled preview images
• Tag image upscale — hardening and status UX
• Settings nav — icon alignment and locale strings
• Update snackbar — HTML preview and changelog dialog stacking
• Build pipeline — TypeScript, ESLint, test schema drift, and postinstall compile failures that blocked CI and Release
• API errors — correct HTTP status and JSON for tag name conflicts, LAN access locks, and other domain errors
• Request validation — body schemas on settings, tabs, playlists, saved filters, and watched-folder routes

MediaChips v1.4.0

Added

• Face recognition — detect faces in videos, enroll people from tag photos, match and auto-tag; enrollment quality checks, reference-photo tips, and CamGirlFinder-friendly review UX
• Gender filter — optionally keep only women or men when scanning video faces (InsightFace genderage, ~1.3 MB on demand)
• Virtual folder tags — folder tags with inheritance, manager UI, and compact settings lists
• Player — turn off live transcoding mid-playback and switch to direct play (or pick a quality to turn it back on); centered spinner while preparing/buffering
• Connection recovery — banner when the server is lost, with Electron auto-relaunch after prolonged downtime
• Global search — Tab-to-pin tags with filtered results

Changed

• Library chrome — simpler first-run setup, shared SideBar/BottomBar nav, unified maintenance tools, decluttered edit dialogs (field search, unsaved-close guard)
• Filters — edit mode for add/reorder/delete, improved filter sets and category-style group dividers
• App tabs — align to the left and append new tabs at the end
• Context menus — regroup media actions (play/playlist, then folder/move/organize; copy near select); clearer separators and source-card highlight
• Branding — refresh chrome, derive page background from primary; remove logo/name from the app bar
• Shell architecture — route more UI/catalog sync off the global event bus onto typed app catalogs and commands
• Locales — catch up German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian for face recognition, CamGirlFinder, onboarding, and measurement units

Fixed

• Live transcode — encode in short windows again (not to EOF) so scrubbing/seeking does not thrash the CPU; hand off on the actual playback position to avoid skipped frames; never upscale past the source resolution
• Big preview — soft drop shadow; do not open while a context menu is active
• Tag page — restore quick filters with co-occurrence API; offset header when filters are docked; compact mobile layout
• Performer pictures — stop reverting after replace due to get-file HTTP cache
• Path parser — match multi-word tags inside longer path chunks
• Hover cards — keep fully inside the viewport with cursor-aware placement
• Select mode — list totals and related Electron desktop chrome polish
• Tag chips — collapse long lists on media cards
• Tag edit dialog — no longer closes immediately on open
• Context submenu spacing — nested items align with regular list rows after divider fixes

MediaChips v1.3.4

Added

• Image-only view mode — for videos and tags
• Global search context menu — open the item context menu from search results
• mpv / IINA launch — play videos with MediaChips marks as chapters
• Measurement units — per-meta units with scrape conversion and type checks
• Tag autocomplete — load more options when scrolling the dropdown

Changed

• Fingerprints — oshash-only hashing; drop full-file SHA-256 for faster add/dedup
• Pinned meta chips — hide empty values on media cards

Fixed

• Tag cards — rating and favorite update after edit