Anime entry
Learn how to manage your local anime entries
After being successfully scanned, files from the same series are consolidated into a single entry in the library. From there, you can manage the files, edit metadata, and more.
Managing files
Locking files
Locking is a useful feature that accelerates the scanning process by indicating to Seanime that these files have been correctly matched, allowing them to be skipped during the next refresh. It also helps prevent accidental overwrites of manually edited file metadata when the library is refreshed.
Unmatching / Deleting files
Bulk actions
- Click on the vertical ellipsis button to open the context menu.
- From there, you can unmatch all files or delete selected files.
Single file
- Click on the ellipsis on the right side of an episode item to open the context menu.
- Click on the "Unmatch" button to unmatch the file.
Episode metadata
Types
Each episode that is scanned has two types of metadata:
- File metadata (Hydrated automatically by the scanner)
- Episode number (e.g, 1, 2, 3, etc.)
- AniDB episode (e.g, 1, 2, S1, S2, etc.)
- Type (Main, Special, NC)
- Note: Main episodes are episodes that count towards the total episode count for the series on AniList.
- Episode metadata (Fetched based on the anime AniList ID and AniDB episode)
- Title
- Description
- Air date
- Length
- Rating
- Image
AniDB
AniDB is a database that contains metadata for anime series and movies. Seanime uses AniDB to classify episodes. Sometimes a certain show may be found on AniDB, but the API Seanime uses may not return any episode data. This happens to adult content and certain OVAs.
Additional metadata
Missing images
If one or more episodes have no images, you can fetch them from other sources.
- Click on the vertical ellipsis button to open the context menu.
- Click
Metadata
to open the metadata management modal. - Click
Fetch / Reload [X] metadata
to fetch up-to-date metadata for the anime - Seanime will fetch, cache and automatically apply the new images to the episodes.
- Note: You need to perform this action each time you notice missing images.
- Click
Remove [X] metadata
to undo and fallback to the default metadata.
Filler info
You can automatically highlight filler episodes in the episode list.
- Click on the vertical ellipsis button to open the context menu.
- Click
Metadata
to open the metadata management modal. - Click
Fetch filler info
to fetch up-to-date filler information for the anime. - Seanime will fetch, cache and automatically apply the filler info to the episodes.
- Note: You need to perform this action each time you notice missing filler info.
- Click
Remove filler info
to undo and fallback to the default metadata.