A perfect set of metadata - at least currently - needs help from a human. What everyone wants is to have a system that leverages all the time the unfortunate folks with OCD have spent getting things just so!! We all know that auto-id has its limitations. If everyone has to enter their own metadata, there will be so much repeated effort. In fact, I only see a feature that - if anything - makes that more difficult. If your project's goal is organization of comics, I didn't see anything in your project goals that facilitated sharing the metadata. This is something I spent years on various ideas, and have some input. Now there is the anansi project that started by the Komga dev, that tries to bring people of the comics "ecosystem" together to bring forth a new standard (modern) metadata model and file format, answering the problems and lacks of the comicinfo one, it might end up existing as external metadata file too (it's called anansi project on github, people like the Mylar dev, Kavita devs, Codex dev (i think) are on it). Yes it requires dedicating space to the seeding/sharing, but with the current prices of HDD/Storage, it's not really a problem for most people (specially since you only do it once every few years unless you are very unlucky), and it brings a liberty and ability to manage properly your files that is unmatched by any workadround. Really, for everything, dropping the whole "i only want one set of files that sit in my download folder because of torrent seeding/DC seeding", is the best thing you can ever do for yourself. (and good luck with the export comicinfo.xml as external, last time i checked, it save the comicinfo.xml named exactly like that, meaning it overwrites it if there is more than one file in the folder.) The day people finally stop considering that there is a problem putting *proper* metadata into files, and using *proper* formats for them (ie : not proprietary rar that brings absolutely no benefit to the table, and only problems), the dumbass rules of some DC hubs about "repacks" will go down and everybody will be better in the end.Īnd if they don't, people with proper files will end up flogging to the few places that allow them without a problem, and it'll become new reference anyway, just because of the amount of users in the end, which brings the same result overall. If you *really* are strapped for space, use a Filesystem with block deduplication (like btrfs) which means files that have only a comicinfo.xml as difference will not take much more space in duplicates than having only one exemplary. (and it's not surprising, due to the amount of problems it would take). Most of the Media Servers for Comics can't really handle external files due to how their were designed.Īnd even those who can (and do like Komga) are on a firm : "that won't happen ever" stance for external comicinfo/*.opf files. Have a set of properly tagged (and processed/converted to cbz instead of rar for half of them) files, and keep the files you want to seed/share on a dedicated seeding/sharing drive/storage. Honestly, stop with not wanting to modify files, it's silly. What exactly happened? Does anyone know if the developer would hand over the project to the community to go open-source or something like that? Does he need money or any other help to keep going on?Īlso: are you guys looking for alternatives (if so, which ones?) or keep using the latest version until it breaks? This is the date of the last archived version that still shows the "new home" message.įrom this date on, it only shows a generic message of "domain is taken" intentions. The same domain shows only an under-construction-like short message ("we are preparing a new home for ComicRack") with the ComicRack logo (suggesting that it was published by the ComicRack developer). The last news post on the front page, however, had a 2016 date. I also checked on the Internet Archive to see when it happened. Today I was trying to find it and saw that Cyo's page is down. I used to use ComicRack a lot until about ten years ago. This post should be "What happened to ComicRack?". EDIT: I just noticed I forgot to use a question mark in my title.
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