MediaLyze

✨ New

• add the public MediaLyze website
• add a donation link to the release-notes dialog that opens the project's GitHub Sponsors page
• add ROADMAP.md
• add a shared telemetry mode toggle to the Telemetry settings panel and release-history dialog, backed by persisted app settings and lockable via MEDIALYZE_TELEMETRY_DISABLED
• add telemetry payload preview support with minimal and enabled modes
• return the persisted telemetry installation id in app settings so users can later identify their anonymous installation for download or deletion

🐛 Bug fixes

• move the folder & pattern recognition header tooltip to the left of the collapse button
• match the settings history reconstruction button sizing to the full-scan action button
• fix lagging toggle animation in most menus

✨ New

• allow duplicate groups to be marked as not duplicates so they stay hidden from normal duplicate views while remaining restorable from the duplicates panel
• add a dashboard history metric that shows each visible library's file-count share over time
• add a Windows scripts/dev-local.ps1 helper that mirrors the existing local realtime development startup flow by booting the reloading backend, waiting for /api/health, and then launching the frontend dev server

🐛 Bug fixes

• harden Windows desktop GitHub Actions builds by retrying the Electron packaging step when upstream electron-builder NSIS resource downloads fail transiently with HTTP 502 responses
• regenerate favicon and Apple touch PNG assets from the vector source at their native target sizes so higher-resolution icons no longer appear pixelated

🐛 Bug fixes

• replace the Linux desktop AppImage ffprobe bundle with a pinned static ffprobe build so media scans no longer depend on host or bundled FFmpeg shared-library resolution; FFPROBE_PATH remains available for explicit system ffprobe overrides (#127)

🐛 Bug fixes

• route packaged Linux desktop analysis through a bundled ffprobe launcher that sets its own library path before executing ffprobe, preventing AppImage scans from falling back to incompatible host FFmpeg libraries; FFPROBE_PATH still supports explicit system ffprobe overrides (#127)
• make MediaLyze.AppImage --version print the packaged desktop app version so users can verify the exact AppImage build they are running (#127)

🐛 Bug fixes

• bundle Linux desktop ffprobe shared-library dependencies into AppImage builds and load them at runtime so scans no longer fail when the host distribution has incompatible FFmpeg library versions (#127)

✨ New

• add Music library type and basic audio-file support for .mp3, .flac, .m4a, .aac, .opus, .wav, and .wma files (#76)
• extract and persist music-specific metadata tags (title, artist, album, album artist, genre, date, disc, composer) from audio files when scanning
• make file discovery library-type-aware so Movies and Shows libraries scan only video files, Music libraries scan only audio files, and Mixed/Other libraries scan both
• filter analyzed-files table columns by library type to hide video-exclusive fields (video codec, resolution, HDR type, bitrate) when viewing Music libraries
• filter library and dashboard statistic panels as well as comparison axis selectors by effective library types so music-only views hide video-exclusive metrics and fields
• add richer music-stream metadata extraction and storage for bit depth, bit-rate mode, compression mode, replay gain, replay-gain peak, writing library, and MD5-unencoded payload values
• make bitrate metrics and sorting/filtering fall back to summed audio-stream bitrate when container bitrate metadata is missing, so pure music libraries populate bitrate views consistently
• hide subtitle-language, subtitle-codec, subtitle-source, audio-language, and audio-bitrate statistic panels for pure music libraries while keeping the generic bitrate panel visible
• add a new app feature flag to optionally show quality-score metrics in pure music libraries; by default these metrics remain hidden in music-only contexts
• rename the music-context audio-codec metric label to Formats & Codecs in library and dashboard views

🐛 Bug fixes

• fix backend startup failure on Python 3.12 where NormalizedAudioStream dataclass field ordering triggered TypeError: non-default argument 'language' follows default argument, which could prevent Docker containers from starting

✨ New

• add stable desktop release asset names so README download links can point at releases/latest/download/... and always fetch the newest published desktop build
• add a Scheduled scan mode that runs a daily incremental scan at a configurable time of day (HH:MM); the existing interval-based mode is renamed to Time Interval in the UI; a tooltip in the time picker explains that only one scan per 24 hours is currently supported and that the TZ environment variable should be set correctly (#124)
• allow creating one library from multiple selected directories; MediaLyze stores a shared root internally, scans only the selected directories, and keeps the selected directory names in analyzed file relative paths instead of stripping them away

✨ New

• add a folder & pattern recognition settings panel with configurable show/season, bonus-content, and ignore-pattern rules; bonus content can now be excluded from scans or retained as classified bonus media, and Shows/Mixed libraries gain series, season, and episode recognition with tree/detail views (#74) (#47)
• view changelog when clicking on version number
• make the pattern-rule sections individually collapsible, link to the pattern documentation from settings, and classify all videos inside recognized season folders as episodes without requiring configurable episode filename regexes
• add a Folder depth show/season recognition mode with configurable series and season depths, make it the default, and only show regex inputs when the regex mode is selected
• show a dashboard/library layout migration notice after updates when saved panel layout entries, sizes, or comparison selections cannot be carried over exactly
• add an in-depth Dolby Vision profiles feature flag that keeps the default UI collapsed to plain Dolby Vision while optionally showing detected profile, compatibility, level, and Profile 7 layer details
• replace the library rename browser prompt with inline editing in Settings so library name and library type can be changed together from the library card header

🐛 Bug fixes

• move the header version pill slightly upward so it visually aligns with the app title without changing its size
• make grouped series table views page by visible top-level rows instead of hidden episodes and lazy-load expanded series details so scrolling stays responsive in large libraries

✨ New

• timespan picker for historic data
• show a version-specific changelog dialog after updates, allow reopening it from the header version pill, and list previous releases from CHANGELOG.md in a collapsed release-history accordion
• add GitHub repository and issue-report shortcuts to the changelog dialog
• replace generic panel loading notices with the existing centered pinwheel loading indicator

🐛 Bug fixes

• preserve customized dashboard and library panel layouts across updates by avoiding automatic default-panel injection and avoiding write-back during layout reads (#118)
• make the analyzed-files empty state compact and centered instead of showing a large notice box
• keep the compact empty analyzed-files state stable while search filters are edited, avoiding spinner flicker and layout jumps
• improve overall app performance

✨ New

• default the full-width app shell feature flag to enabled for first-run desktop app installations while still preserving user changes
• default file-history retention to 30 days and clarify that dashboard/library trend history is retained separately through media library snapshots
• make media file detail panels use a compact masonry-style layout and add live pointer-drag reordering so panels follow the cursor and surrounding panels animate into place

🐛 Bug fixes

• remove the stray dark-mode tooltip background behind the resolution badge on the file detail page
• cache the history storage forecast and refresh it in the background after scans, history maintenance, and on a periodic schedule
• report scans with unreadable media files as completed with issues instead of failed when the scan itself finished successfully
• simplify the file detail header by removing the main metric cards, moving size, duration, and quality into badges, and showing the relative path through the title tooltip
• align the history-retention table row headers with the dark-mode settings design instead of rendering them as bright gray blocks
• include all recognized video and audio codec options in quality-profile scoring and settings so Opus and other known codecs no longer fall back to neutral scoring
• reduce post-scan CPU and memory pressure by bounding large statistics/table caches and estimating history-storage sizes without loading every stored JSON snapshot into Python
• improve large-library responsiveness with lighter scan discovery memory, deferred table counts, cursor-based table paging, persisted table search fields, additional SQLite indexes, and low-priority post-scan cache warmup

🐛 Bug fixes

• backfill legacy library-history snapshots with total size, total duration, file-size summaries, and resolution megapixel summaries so the newer history metrics render for older stored data

✨ New

• enhance library history panels with additional metrics, display modes, localized labels, and updated reconstruction/statistics support

✨ New

• add a per-library dashboard visibility toggle in Settings so selected libraries can be excluded from dashboard totals, distributions, and comparison panels
• add configurable history retention and storage budgeting for file_history, library_history, and scan_history, including persisted per-file snapshot history, daily library snapshots, oldest-first cleanup, and a new GET /api/history-storage forecast endpoint
• add approximate history reconstruction from existing media files with live progress, retention-aware limits, and UI guidance for reconstruction accuracy
• add dashboard and per-library history panels for historical metric trends, with selectable metrics and a compact Historic data dashboard layout panel

🐛 Bug fixes

• tighten history, duplicate, and analyzed-files panel headers to reduce wasted vertical space and keep controls aligned with existing panel patterns
• fix for error while sorting for Bitrate in table view #111

🐛 Bug fixes

• broaden ffprobe-based spatial-audio detection so additional explicit Atmos metadata variants beyond stream.profile are recognized during analysis; existing libraries may need a full rescan to refresh previously analyzed files (#107)

✨ New

• add configurable metric-comparison statistic panels on the dashboard and library detail pages, with two-axis selection, heatmap / scatter / bar renderers, and dedicated comparison API endpoints for direct context such as size versus duration (#102)
• extend metric-comparison charts with a numeric Resolution - MP axis option, show the active renderer icon directly in the toolbar button, and add an App Settings control for the scatter-plot sample limit (#102)
• add inline statistic-panel layout editing on the dashboard and per-library detail pages, including a visible Dashboard page title, animated edit controls, add-panel menus, drag-and-drop reordering, per-panel resize controls, and browser-persisted layouts for each page context
• add curated first-run default layouts for dashboard and library statistic panels, allow intentionally empty saved panel layouts, and add a History restore-default action to the inline layout toolbar
• add a new unlimited panel size feature flag that removes the current 4-row height cap for dashboard and library statistic panels while still keeping panel width constrained by the underlying 4-column grid
• simplify the former Library statistics settings block into a Table View section that now only manages analyzed-files table columns and tooltips, while Bitrate and Audio bitrate can also be enabled as table columns

🐛 Bug fixes

• remount statistic charts when resized smaller so comparison and histogram panels redraw correctly after inline panel-size changes, restore top-aligned list panels, and make newly added statistic panels default to 1x2
• align dashboard and library statistic layout controls with the existing header-style button design language so Darkmode no longer renders bright low-contrast white action circles
• bundle macOS desktop ffprobe dependencies into the packaged app and rewrite non-system dylib loader paths so scans no longer fail on machines without the original Homebrew cellar layout
• make dashboard statistic panels behave as non-interactive read-only summaries again instead of hinting at missing cross-library drill-downs; only scatter points in dashboard comparison panels still open file details (#104)

✨ New

• add reusable Apache ECharts histogram panels for Quality score, Runtime, File size, Bitrate, and Audio bitrate in both the dashboard and library statistics, with local count/percent toggles and clickable library bins that apply matching analyzed-files range filters

🐛 Bug fixes

• extend structured numeric analyzed-files filters to support comma-separated AND ranges such as >=4GB,<8GB, including the new bitrate-based search fields used by the histogram panels
• include desktop/ffprobe-paths.cjs in packaged Electron app builds and add desktop packaging regression tests so macOS startup no longer fails with Cannot find module './ffprobe-paths.cjs' (#99)

✨ New

• add lightweight analyzed-files codec tooltips that lazy-load per-file video, audio, and subtitle stream details, including language, codec, channel layout, and subtitle source metadata, and make table tooltip visibility configurable per statistic column in App Settings (#93)
• add first-class spatial-audio support for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, including ffprobe profile detection, analyzed-files filtering and sorting, library statistics, CSV export, and audio tooltip/detail rendering (#94)
• add container statistics and analyzed-files container filtering, sorting, CSV export, and configurable table/panel visibility for library views (#97)
• rework the file-detail page so the Format panel renders structured metadata rows instead of raw format JSON, and make all detail panels globally collapsible and reorderable with browser-persisted state
• allow Container, Spatial audio, Subtitle codecs, and Subtitle sources to be enabled as optional dashboard statistic panels through the existing statistics settings
• update the default statistics preset for fresh installs to match the expanded dashboard/table layout while preserving already stored statistic settings on upgrades and only appending newly introduced options

🐛 Bug fixes

• keep analyzed-files tooltips exclusive so opening or scrolling to another table area closes stale codec and score tooltips instead of leaving multiple overlays on screen
• fix the desktop release build after v0.4.1 by completing strict frontend test app-settings mocks for the new feature flags and replacing the Windows ffprobe bundle step's brittle Chocolatey install with a direct archive download plus retries
• reanalyze unchanged media files when external subtitle sidecars are added or removed so subtitle statistics and quality scoring stay in sync with internal subtitles (#95)

✨ New

• support ! negation and comma-separated AND terms in analyzed-files metadata search filters (#85)
• add feature flags for a full-width .media-app-shell layout and hiding the analyzed-files quality score meter (#91)
• add Excel-like drag resizing for analyzed-files table columns, with widths persisted in browser storage (#91)

🐛 Bug fixes

• show complete audio and subtitle language lists in analyzed-files table cells and truncate them visually with ellipses when a resized column becomes too narrow

First "rough" implementation for detecting duplicate files. May break desktop install use v0.3.0 if it's not working properly.

✨ New

• add per-library duplicate detection with off (default), filename, filehash, both modes (#16)
• view and search through duplicates on library page
• scan performance tuning in App settings with separate controls for per-scan analysis workers and parallel library scans

🐛 Bug fixes

• rework scan execution so discovery streams files directly into analysis and duplicate workers, live progress reflects worker completion, and configured worker counts now affect real throughput
• stop auto-resuming or auto-queuing stale startup jobs, clear pending watchdog debounce requests on cancel, and improve failed scan diagnostics with copyable detailed error payloads
• tighten the duplicate and library-settings UI by capping visible duplicate variants with internal scrolling, aligning scan controls consistently, and making the dev desktop artifact build manual-only

🐛 Bug fixes

• restrict main release publishing to real version bumps so unchanged-version commits no longer try to recreate existing tags and releases
• allow adding new resolution categories from the settings UI without tripping the backend's immutable-id validation (#71)
• fix resolution quality-boundary updates in the library quality settings when minimum / ideal values are changed (#72) - by @eivarin
• keep Windows UNC network-share paths in their normal form for ffprobe so desktop scans analyze files on network shares instead of only listing them
• lower the default resolution-category minimum width and height thresholds by 5% so cropped widescreen encodes stay in their expected buckets, and document the relaxed defaults in the settings tooltip (#79)
• make desktop packaging always create the bundled backend/ffprobe structure, auto-detect ffprobe on the build machine, and use more robust packaged-path fallbacks at runtime before failing (#80)
• treat NAS snapshot symlink loops under MEDIA_ROOT as invalid paths so browse and library setup return 400 or skip the entry instead of crashing with a 500 (#81)

✨ New

• The browser now renders scan and library times in the user's local timezone

🐛 Bug fixes

• serialize API timestamps as explicit UTC Z values and restore SQLite datetime fields as UTC (#66)
• align clickable statistics with table - counted streams instead of files (#67)

✨ New

• feat: global, configurable resolution categories in App Settings
• feat: backend now uses the shared resolution-category configuration

🐛 Bug fixes

• show scan banner earlier through better polling
• lower default resolution-category minimum heights so cinema-scope and letterboxed releases still map to the expected width-based buckets

✨ New

• feat: native Electron-based desktop app
• github: release workflows for Windows, macOS and Linux
• github: Docker images for linux/amd64 & linux/arm64 - by @patrickjmcd
• feat: Add */.deletedByTMM/* default ignore pattern for Tiny Media Manager users

🐛 Bug fixes

• various bug related to desktop distribution

📚 Documentation

• local desktop build and packaging documentation
• expanded README with desktop setup, runtime behavior, and desktop deployment details

New Contributors

@patrickjmcd in #57

✨ New

• Added clickable library statistic counts so matching analyzed-files table filters can be applied directly from the Library detail page
• Added CSV export for the full analyzed-files result set, including the active filters and sort order in the exported file header
• Added a feature flag for the analyzed-files CSV export button, disabled by default and positioned below the title on smaller screens
• Expanded HDR10+ detection so more ffprobe metadata variants are recognized during analysis

🐛 Bug fixes

• Closed the metadata search picker immediately after choosing a filter, so it no longer stays open until an extra outside click
• Replaced existing analyzed-files metadata values when a new statistic filter from the same category is selected, instead of duplicating the search field
• Improved the scan-log failures UI so failed files stay readable and show their analysis error on demand
• Hid container placeholder directories like cdrom, floppy, and usb in the path browser while keeping explicit mounted media paths visible

📚 Documentation

• Refreshed the README with current screenshots, updated project-status copy, and a star-history chart
• Reworked AGENTS.md to document the actual current dev branch behavior, release chronology, runtime architecture, and repository layout

✨ New

• Added detailed scan logs with recent-job history with rich details
• Collapsible settings panels

🐛 Bug fixes

• Hid nested mount points and symlinks outside MEDIA_ROOT in the path browser so multi-directory Docker setups no longer expose invalid library targets
• Fixed visual-density scoring to accept both , and . decimals, support an explicit maximum threshold, and use actual file size to penalize bloated media even when bitrate metadata is misleading
• Fixed incremental scans to reanalyze files with incomplete metadata, remove files that became ignored or disappeared, and preserve short actionable ffprobe failure reasons in stored scan summaries

✨ New

• @MSCodeDev added a color theme setting with System, Light, and Dark modes, including persistent browser-side preference storage and automatic OS theme following in System mode.
• Tightened the analyzed-files table layout so audio language and subtitle language columns use less horizontal space.

New Contributors

@MSCodeDev in #40

✨ New

• Added a new Feature flags section under App settings.
• Added the Show Dolby Vision Profiles feature flag so Dolby Vision profile variants can be shown separately in Dynamic Range statistics and metadata views when explicitly enabled
• Added Dolby Vision profile extraction during ffprobe parsing for new scans, storing values like Dolby Vision Profile 5/7/8 instead of only the generic Dolby Vision label
• Added a rescan tooltip for the Dolby Vision profile feature flag to clarify that installations used before v0.1.1 may need a fresh scan

🐛 Bug fixes

• Preserved quality-score dynamic range normalization so stored Dolby Vision profile variants still map to the existing Dolby Vision quality tier

✨ New

• Added official GitHub release support with tag-driven publishing and curated release notes
• Added a release metadata validation script to keep Docker, backend, and frontend versions aligned
• Added release PR validation in GitHub Actions so version and changelog mismatches fail before merge

🐛 Bug fixes

• Switched official Docker publishing for main from branch-triggered builds to SemVer tag releases
• Updated the dev image workflow to derive its base version from Git tags instead of GHCR package APIs
• Normalized the repository version metadata to 0.1.1 ahead of the first official public release

✨ New

🐛 Bug fixes