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Mango is a self-hosted manga server and web reader
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[Feature Request] Read Comic Title from ComicInfo.xml #241

Closed Cygon closed 3 years ago

Cygon commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, Mango uses the file name of a .cbz or .cbr as the displayed title of a manga of comic book, which I then have to manually update via the UI.

There are several competing standards, but a popular way of storing the comic title and other informations in .cbz and .cbr files is via an embedded ComicInfo.xml file. It follows this format:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ComicInfo>
  <Title>My Awesome Comic</Title>
  <!-- Other nodes like Genre, PageCount, BlackAndWhite, RightToLeft, Characters... -->
</ComicInfo>

It would be very nice if Mango could check for the presence of a ComicInfo.xml and read the Title node to use as a manga's title.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like for Mango to check if a ComicInfo.xml exists in a newly imported .cbz, .cbr or .zip file and to read the Title node to use as the display title of the book. If either is missing, fall back to the file name.

Describe a small use-case for this feature request I've got a rather well populated library of manga and comics that I'd like to import into Mango.

My files are named for easy handling, i.e. all lowercase and without non-ascii-characters, so with the current behaviour, all book titles would be like this, too. Manually fixing them all via the UI takes forever.

Since all my books have a ComicInfo.xml file, if Mango would take the title from there, I could just move my entire library folder over to Mango and everything would work out.

hkalexling commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for the feature request! It looks like what you are proposing is a subset of #194 so I will be closing this. Please subscribe to that issue to get updated.