sakuramedia

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<h1 align="center">SakuraMedia</h1>

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  <strong>Turn the movies on your disks and cloud drives into a searchable, subscribable library you can pick up where you left off.</strong>
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  Built for people running their own media library: the backend can run on a NAS, mini PC, server, or VPS, and movies can live on local disks or in a 115 cloud drive.
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  <a href="https://github.com/tinypinglite/sakuramedia/releases/latest"><strong>Download the client</strong></a>
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  <a href="https://tinypinglite.github.io/sakuramedia/guide/quick-start"><strong>Deploy the backend</strong></a>
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  <a href="https://tinypinglite.github.io/sakuramedia/"><strong>Browse the Wiki</strong></a>
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  <a href="https://tinypinglite.github.io/sakuramedia/videos/sakuramedia-demo-en.mp4"><strong>Watch the demo</strong></a>
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  <sub><strong>English</strong> · <a href="./README.zh-CN.md">简体中文</a></sub>
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  <sub>Needs an always-on host plus Docker; the client can't be used on its own.</sub>
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  After collecting for years, I started asking myself: what do I actually want to keep from this movie?<br />
  <a href="https://tinypinglite.github.io/sakuramedia/guide/collection-strategy"><strong>Why I built SakuraMedia →</strong></a>
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## Core features

From finding and downloading movies to watching and organizing them, the current release covers the following.

### Finding and acquiring

- 🔍 **Discovery and subscriptions**: Search by movie number or look up an actor by name; browse tags, rankings, and recommendations; subscribe to an actor to keep up with new releases (her whole catalog isn't downloaded automatically).
- 📥 **Automatic download and import**: Once a movie is subscribed, SakuraMedia keeps looking for sources and downloads it through qBittorrent or 115 offline download; finished downloads are imported into the media library automatically, and movies with no source stay on the subscription list.
- 📦 **Import and metadata**: Import from a local disk or select cloud drives; the movie number is detected and the title, cast, cover, and other metadata are scrape