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Advanced editing ​

Advanced local series metadata editing for enhanced library organization.

Editing local series details ​

It is possible to add details to local series. Like series from other sources, you add information about the series such as the author, artist, description, and genre tags.

Details are read from a ComicInfo.xml file in the Series folder. Write that file yourself: the app does not create one for a plain folder of images.

It does look inside your chapter archives once. The first time it scans a series with no ComicInfo.xml of its own, it takes one out of a chapter archive if it finds it there and copies it up to the series folder. Most comic archives from other tools already carry one.

That archive scan only ever runs once

If the first scan finds nothing, the app drops an empty .noxml marker in the series folder so it never re-scans, and adding a ComicInfo.xml to your archives afterwards will not be noticed. Putting a ComicInfo.xml in the series folder is what clears the marker. So if a series is stuck without details, look for .noxml (it is a hidden file) and write the ComicInfo.xml by hand.

A .json details file is the old format

It still works, but only once. Any file ending in .json in the series folder is read as one, so do not keep other JSON files there. The app reads it, converts it to ComicInfo.xml, and deletes the JSON, so do not be surprised when your file disappears. Write ComicInfo.xml directly for anything new.

The old format, for reference:

json
{
  "title": "Example Title",
  "author": "Example Author",
  "artist": "Example Artist",
  "description": "Example Description",
  "genre": ["genre 1", "genre 2", "etc"],
  "status": "0",
  "_status values": ["0 = Unknown", "1 = Ongoing", "2 = Completed", "3 = Licensed", "4 = Publishing finished", "5 = Cancelled", "6 = On hiatus"]
}

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If you would rather not write metadata by hand, the Android app Koguma-Metadata and this website both generate it for you.

Using a custom cover image ​

It is also possible to use a custom image as a cover for each local series.

To do this, place an image named cover in the root of the series folder. Any image extension works, so cover.jpg, cover.png and cover.webp are all fine. The app will then use your custom image in the local source listing.