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🥳 5th Anniversary Release 🎉

Thank you everyone for patience. Last two years were hard for me - moving to another state, working full time (still) while fixing things around the house. There is still so much to do around the house, but I intend to continue working on Video Hub App for years to come ❤️

New features:

• click on heart to make video "favorite" - thank you to @Sooyoung98, @sunnyliang6, @anitacheng19, and @joshHuang02 (#785)
• sort by last-time-played
• alphabetize input folders - thank you to @alzbuc (#703)
• compact view for filmstrip gallery - thank you to @semla (#706)
• sort auto-tags in alphabetical order option - thank you to @gabriel-kazimir (#774)
• "folder does not have" filter - thank you to @PiantaSE (#767) & @rokaicker (#772)
• folder over 1,000 shows "k" instead - thank you to @jmdagenais (#769)
• remember options from last hub creation - thank you to @23mwest (#736)
• show bitrate in details - thank you to @jozefkopcak (#714)
• year filter - thank you to @litelime (#677)
• quit menu on Mac - thank you to @martinriviere (#653)
• more Mac menu options - thank you to @flpcury (#692)

Bugfixes:

• dragging video outside of app does not cause error 😭
• magic search includes manual tags - thank you to @litelime (#742)
• avoid corrupting settings when quitting app abruptly - thank you to @CrendKing (#694)
• year visible in dark mode - thank you to @ryanleigh410 (#704)
• times played visible in dark mode - thank you to @arcadioramos (#720)

Maintenance:

• M1 version of the Mac app exists 🚀
• newer version of FFmpeg
• newest version of other libraries
• linting and minor fixes - thank you to @laurence-myers (#698)

Translations:

• Thank you @JesusMurguia for improvements to Spanish (#794)
• Thank you Glenn for improvements to Chinese (#716)

New features:

• remote control (browse, search, preview, and launch videos from phone or tablet)
• support MPV video player
• extract FPS and sort by it - thank you to @jleckron (#635)
• times played filter - thank you to @litelime (#612)

Bugfixes:

• scanning remote drive files should be super fast and have no error
• 720p will be correctly labeled when generating hub (thank you TripleYoThreat for catching and fixing)
• Mac copy/paste works
• no crash if settings file got corrupted somehow

Translations:

• Thank you @ciruz for improvements to German

New features:

• more than one source/input folder per hub 🎉
• live import of videos (no more green progress bar locking up the app during importing metadata)
• 'watch folder' live for updates
• bottom tray with Word cloud, Recently played, Details and other tabs
• you can set custom keyboard shortcuts
• regex search
• many more 😎

Bugfixes:

• too numerous to list

Thank you:

• @cal2195 for implementing the new importing process and for 'watch folder' functionality (using the chokidar and async libraries)
• @orkomlosh for minor UI fixes, allowing for random folder screenshots, additional extensions setting, internal code cleanup, new modal/notification system
• @CrendKing for sort by file creation date, fix bug for files with spaces, add video player launch arguments, restore correct window location when opening
• @HerrRobo for alternative alphabetical search that handles number ordering correctly (e.g. 1, 2, 10)
• @jamesd35 for 'select all' when batch tagging, portable app settings save next to executable, delete files bypassing recycling bin option
• @litelime for sort by number of videos, file size slider / filter
• @sezalmittal987 for single / double click mode
• @martincaron - for alphabetical sort case insensitive

Thank you for new translations:

• Łukasz B. - Polish
• @lighthunt - Czech & Vietnamese
• @ridvanaltun - Turkish
• @SuzannaWentzel - Dutch

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There may be people I forgot to thank - please let me know if I missed you 🙇

New features:

• Quick file rename (thanks to @byrw)
• Sort by number of tags (thanks to @Kotzlowski)
• Show default thumbnail in clip view option (thanks to @martincaron)
• Sort by aspect ratio (thanks to @martincaron)
• Batch tagging
• Details view 2
• Check for new release button in settings

Bugfixes:

• Save settings when closing via menu bar / taksbar (thanks to @martincaron)

🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ Thank you to all the financial contributors who continue to purchase the app, and to those who pay more than the minimum to encourage further development

Fixes a few bugs present in tagged version 2.2.0:

• fix: playlist creation works
• fix: scroll to last position in root folder when in folder view
• fix: cannot read property 'duration' of undefined

New Features:

• folders with single video show single large thumbnail (thanks to @danjool)
• create playlist of current view ⏯
• folder view can be sorted by 'last modified' ⌛️
• remember scroll position when returning from inside folder
• and many more smaller ones 🎉

Bugfixes:

• no more crashing when video file has many streams (thanks to @kevinseelbach) 🎉
• visual fixes for details view & typeahead on tags
• extracting screenshots more reliable
• deleting a file updates the view
• no more 'min min' duration on small folders
• manual tags case insensitive when filtering
• tags update in tray when added in details view
• auto tags better algorithm for creating and matching
• and many more smaller ones 🎉

Thank you:

• @mmega for an improved Korean translation 👍
• @cal2195 for ongoing code advice and code contributions 🥇

New features:

• Touch Bar support (thanks to @ErikDvorcak)
• Fuzzy search 🔍
• pick default thumbnail
• right-click delete file option
• and many more smaller ones 🎉

Many bugfixes:

• better success extracting screenshots
• better detection of correct video resolution (thanks to @kevinseelbach)
• and many more smaller ones 🎉

Thank you:

🙇‍♂️ Thank you to all the others that have also contributed to this release (small fixes and language translations) @R3l4x3 @RayanXY @ScottBWar @VHalushko @arszh @basavaraj96 @bigesses @hugobr02 @jamessspanggg @mmega

🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ A special thank you for the continued support of the repository and codebase as well as comments and ideas @cal2195

🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ And thank you to all the financial contributors who continue to purchase the app, and to those who pay more than the minimum to encourage further development

Finally released. Likely will need to patch it up in some minor ways once I get user feedback 🤷‍♂