[FEATURE] Bulk management

[aaronleopold]

This ticket will serve as tracking for a few related features, all of which have been requested multiple times. I'll create sub-tickets for the individual entities which are bulk-manageable:

• Bulk manage books
  • Rename (e.g. remove pattern)
  • Restore filenames
  • Metadata operations
• Bulk manage series
• Bulk manage libraries

The general idea is to be able to select multiple items and perform a non-specific action on them. E.g. delete, mark as read/unread, add to collection (future), etc. The implementation should be consistent across the different entities, and it should be extensible so that planned features (e.g. adding to collection) can be added without too much effort. Drag-and-drop reordering support would be nice, but isn't really applicable outside reading lists (which are not yet supported).

Bulk editing of metadata sounds cool, but practically I don't know how useful it would be. If anyone stumbles across this ticket, or any of the sub-tickets, feel free to toss out ideas.

[Dabu-dot]

Bulk editing of metadata sounds cool, but practically I don't know how useful it would be.

I think this could be a very neat and time saving addition to Stump. But it's also a large and complex one.
As for example, mangas would benefit a lot from this integration

The structure of the bulk-editing could be somewhat similar to what Plex implemented:

A "Alien" Collection/Series Metadatas Editor

An Ebook equivalent could be:

Series X - Metadatas

• Series Title
• Series Sorting Title
• Series Author(s)
• Series Artist(s) (if specified)
• Series Publisher(s)
• Series Year of Release
• Series Content Rating
• Series Summary
• Series Tags

Items in the collection could even inherit some metadatas of its parent series:

All Books of Series X - Metadatas

• Series Author(s)
• Series Artist(s) (if specified)
• Series Publisher(s)
• Series Content Rating
• Series Tags

I think it would work for all use cases (ebooks, comics, french comics, mangas, manhwas, webtoons...), guaranteeing that most of the items in the librairies have a basic support for metadatas.