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Roadmap

Beta Release

• User Scenarios
  • User can select media folder, movies are detected and added to database with downloaded metadata.
  • User can browse media, grouped by genre
  • User can search by title, actor, genre, director
  • User can view details for a specific movie
  • User can open movie file in finder / file explorer
  • User can start movie playback in default player
• Bugs/Enhancements/Perf/Testing
  • Disable browsing during metadata import? Or fix issue where new movies get added to beginning of gallery instead of end?
  • Batch database updates sent to App / Do not let app freeze up when adding metadata to large libraries.
  • Only allow one open movie details panel at a time?
  • Unit / Functional testing in place; all tests passing; 80% or greater coverage

MVP Release 1.0.0

• Server up and running with Firebase Hosting
• Add UI indication when movie file does not exist and don't allow clicks
• Add UI for deleting movies from database
• Add UI for deleting entire database
• Make sure UI does not freeze with large databases (>1000 movies)

Release 1.1.0

• Add "My List" feature
• Add UI for retrying a metadata query with custom title query
• Automatically recognize when movie file becomes available and make play buttons clickable
• Handle TV Series gracefully

Future Release

• Add/Clean fade out animations. Must handle case where fade in terminates early.
• Auto hide/show movie gallery horizontal scrollbars
• Add tooltips to clickable elements
• Organize search results by name of actor, name of director, matching titles, ...
• UI for playing/opening a particular episode in a series