Tools
Helpers that work on any folder, with no library needed.
The pages in Features all work on your libraries. The ones under Tools do not. You point them at a folder, they do their job, and your libraries stay out of it.
That makes them handy for folders you have not decided what to do with yet: a fresh download, a drive full of old files, a season of episodes that needs proper names.
- Identify renames a folder of videos so media servers recognise them.
- Subtitles finds and downloads subtitles for the videos in a folder.
- Organize lets you look through any folder, then search, move, rename and delete what is in it.
- Downloads saves videos and audio from links you paste in.
- Galleries fetches whole galleries and albums of images and clips, and keeps them up to date.
How they relate to libraries
A tool never needs you to add its folder as a library first, and it does not add the folder to one. Nothing you do in a tool shows up on the Files pages unless that folder is already inside a library.
If the folder is inside a library, the library keeps up on its own. The folder watcher notices changed files within a few seconds, and Identify also updates the paths of files it renames, so there is nothing to rescan.
If you do want something to become part of your collection, add its folder on the Libraries page.