It was 2 AM. I was digging through my local anime folder trying to figure out why my media server hadn’t picked up a new episode. I opened the SQLite database file out of curiosity — just to see what was in there. I could read it. All of it. Every title. Every rating. Every entry in my watch history. Plain UTF-8 text, sitting unprotected on my disk. I closed the terminal and stared at the ceiling for a while. ...
It was 3 AM on a Tuesday night. I was staring at my anime folder, scrolling through filenames like: [SubsPlease] Spy x Family - 01 (1080p) [A4DAF3D9].mkv [Coalgirls] Clannad (1920x1080 Blu-Ray FLAC) [1234ABCD]/[Coalgirls] Clannad - 01 (1920x1080 Blu-Ray FLAC) [1234ABCD].mkv One Punch Man S02E03 1080p WEBRip x264-PandoR.mkv And I thought to myself: “There has to be a better way.” Sound familiar? If you’ve ever built a media library, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Those messy, inconsistent filenames — they drive me crazy. And the existing parsers? Either too slow, too rigid, or didn’t handle the wild variety of naming conventions we anime fans use. ...