October 2023 Update

New Indexed Issues Milestone

The Metron Project reached a milestone this month by having more than 77,000 issues added to its database. I wish to give big thanks to everyone who has helped with the project. Thanks!

Metron-Tagger v1.6.4

Duplicate Page Removal

Just released a new version of Metron-Tagger, which adds a new experimental feature of finding / removing duplicate pages in a directory of comics. The feature will get the hashes for all the pages of the comics in a directory, and then ask the user if the image should be removed from the comics. This is done by using the user's system image viewer to display the duplicate image. Once the user has reviewed all the duplicated images it will ask the user whether to write the changes to the comics and then prompt them if they also want to update the ComicInfo.xml (if it exists) for the page changes.

This feature most likely will work best when running on a weekly basis, instead of on a whole comic collection, since it's asking the user to review all the duplicate images before writing the changes. I'm planning on reworking this to make it more feasible to use on a large comic collection, but that is pretty far down on my TODO list (but if someone wants to work on this I'm more than willing to review a Pull Request).

Note: I've been using this for the last month and haven't had any issues, but if you plan on using this I would suggest backing up any files when using this initially, and verifying it works correctly for you since once the changes are written they can't be undone! 💣

Miscellaneous Maintenance

The rest of v1.6.4 changes are primarily developer-side changes updating the toolsets for Metron-Tagger.

Comic-Tagger

Comic-Tagger recently released their Metron-Talker plugin which adds support for tagging any comic with metadata from Metron.