Hi everyone! 7.1.9 just dropped with some new tools to help you keep your content organized, new themes, and more....

Library Search

One of the more powerful updates in this release may go unnoticed at first. But be sure to take a minute to check out Search Filters!

Search filters are a necessity as you build out your library, especially since Stacher's primary goal with the Library is to make it easy to find what you're looking for, when you want it.

In the Library Search bar, you can now click the left icon to open a filters drop down.

Let's say you're a content creator and you are organizing your media. Let's say you've added the "b-roll" Category to all your media files that you consider to be B-Roll material. Maybe you're making a video about NASA's Artemis mission and you've previously downloaded publicly available/free to use media that has tags like, "space", "nasa", etc.

The problem is, you have over 100,000 files in your Stacher Library. So, how do you find what you need?

Search Filters!

Search Filters will help you find what you're looking for quickly by allowing you to add a Category filter ("b-roll") and Tag filter ("nasa"). If you need to search further, maybe you type a keyword search for "artemis" or try one of the other filter options.

You can even search for text you've added to custom bookmarks!

To make this even more powerful, you can have Stacher automatically index subtitle text when available. This will allow you to add a subtitles search filter with text like "ten nine eight" if you're trying to find the exact video and precise moment of rocket launches. When you click a result from a subtitle filtered search, the player will seek directly to the spot in the video where the subtitle was found. Neat!

For this feature to work, you must have subtitle indexing enabled in the Library tab of the Settings window. You can also set the desired subtitle language(s) here. As of 7.1.9, this setting is enabled with English ("en") subtitles by default.

This does not change any other subtitle settings you have enabled or disabled and does not download subtitles to a file. The subtitles are indexed into Stacher's database for quick text search.

For any media that was added to Stacher's Library before version 7.1.9, those files will obviously not have subtitles indexed. You can manually add subtitle indexing to any file in your library by re-importing via the import functionality or clicking the menu in the player and selecting the option to Re-Index Subtitles.

Finally, when you search for text like normal, each result will have the text highlighted that triggered the result hit. If you open a result in the media player, you'll see highlighting in the description as well, since this data is also included in text search.

Highlighting is intended to help you understand why something shows up when you search for a certain keyword or phrase. You can disable this in the Library tab of the Settings window.

Subtitles

When you open a video in Stacher's built in player, and if subtitles have been index, you'll see a new button that allows you to toggle on and off any of the available subtitles!

Library Import

Stacher's Library import functionality has also been updated to support subtitle files (like .vtt for example) if they exist alongside any media you're importing.

For example, if you import a file called my-video.mp4 and you have a my-video.vtt file alongside it, Stacher will assume that the my-video.vtt data are subtitles for my-video.mp4 and will automatically import and index those as well.

The UI for import has been updated to look a bit more visually pleasing but to also add an additional option to disable this behavior if you don't want Stacher to automatically import any subtitle files it finds.

Themes

The Themes tab in the Settings window has been updated to be more visually pleasing.

7 New themes were also added!

Everything Else

As always, the full change log can be found out https://changelog.stacher.io, but some other notable changes

You can rename a file on your system directly from Stacher's Library (Player Menu) instead of having to do this manually and then Resolve the File Path in Stacher later

Some bug fixes around the Light mode themes were made. Specifically relating to the contrast (or lack thereof) while in Light Mode

Bug fixes around Pre-Script exit codes. If you have a pre-script added in the Scripts tab of the Settings window, you can have your script return exit code 0 to indicate success and any other exit code will indicate an error. You can take advantage of this by having downloads abort if your pre-script fails by returning a non zero exit code.

Bug fixes around the "Open With..." menu option not correctly deriving the full path of Third Party apps