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> This is not really explaining the purpose. Does it scan video-Files to collect entries? Or is it manual input? Can I import data from somewhere? Does it play files? Does it integrate into netflix&co. to gather new entries? And let's not talk about more special features..

Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's not listed as a feature.

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>Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's not listed as a feature.

Translation for those who can't read between the lines:

- it doesn't support media scanning

- the authors are going hard on not saying this outright. Figure the idea is more downloads from people aspiring to scan their media (who got duped), but then "fall in love" with the program when they see how great it is albeit unable to do what they wanted, scan media. 0/10 this is catfishing, be honest and listen to what the users want, a solution for media scanning. A meta-data organizer is useless without metadata! Which is what the scanner produces!

Not sure what you mean by "media scanning", but if you assume that Media Hoarder isn't able to scan directories of your media, then I need to update the README - because it absolutely DOES this.

[Edit]: I read your post a second time, you use the term "media scanning" for two different things:

1/ Scanning in files

2/ Providing Metadata

Both are supported by Media Hoarder, none of the metadata you see in the screenshots and demos are manually provided by the user.

If you want to dig a bit deeper (coming from the README), you can see linked documents that go into detail for both topics:

https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder?tab=readme-ov-file#...

> playing files

Thanks for pointing this out. Of course, Media Hoarder "plays files" - by launching the media player of your choice. I quickly updated the README :|

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