What's new

Every release, what changed, and who asked for it.

FlicksForge is largely built from email. Someone writes in about something that annoys them, and it usually ships within a few days — the notes below say which. If something you need is missing, the fastest way to get it is to tell us.

0.3.14

A new default layout, and watch folders that can look inside subfolders.

Added

• The Workbench — a new default layout. Your files now sit in a list on the left while you edit on the right, so the list stays put instead of jumping around as you work through a batch. Prefer the previous single-pane flow? Switch back to Classic any time from Settings → App → Layout. Suggested by Ken.
• Watch folders can now include subfolders. Each watch folder has a "Subfolders" option (off by default) — turn it on and FlicksForge picks up files nested inside show / season / episode folders, not just those at the top level. Suggested by Paul B.

Fixed

• Deleting a customised rule now properly reverts to the built-in one rather than leaving it switched off.

0.3.13

Fixed

• Scene-release junk no longer leaks into your episode descriptions. Some downloaded files carry encoder and release-group notes in the file's "comment" field — strings like FENiX-Wed-19-Aug-2026,02:12:15,720p,22,medium,N,…. FlicksForge was reading that as the plot summary, so it could end up as the description in Plex or the TV app. It now ignores the comment field; the real description and synopsis fields are still read as before.

0.3.12

Auto-update reliability and diagnostics.

Fixed

• After installing an update, FlicksForge now reliably relaunches itself rather than occasionally quitting without coming back.
• Update problems are now recorded in the log. The whole check → download → install sequence is written to app.log (reachable via "Reveal Log File in Finder"), so a stuck update can be diagnosed. If an update seems to install but leaves you on the same version, the usual cause is running FlicksForge from outside your Applications folder — move it into Applications and updates apply cleanly.

0.3.11

Match a whole season in one click, and a self-tidying queue.

Added

• "Apply this show to the rest of the batch." When several episodes share a series, match and title just the first one — confirming it's the right show — then one button matches every other episode in the batch to that same series and fetches each title by its own season and episode number. Invaluable when a title has several same-named series across the decades (the original Mr. Men from 1974 versus The Mr. Men Show from 2008), where auto-match can pick the wrong one. Episodes TMDb can't find are marked for review rather than mis-tagged.

Changed

• TV episode filenames no longer carry the year — they're now Show - S01E01 - Episode Title, matching the usual convention where the year lives on the show folder. A batch matched with "Apply this show…" now names and dates its files exactly like one edited by hand.

Fixed

• The queue no longer keeps "ghost" rows for files you've moved or renamed. On launch, any entry whose source file has genuinely gone is dropped, with a one-line note. Files on an unmounted external drive or NAS are left completely alone — an offline drive is never mistaken for a deleted file.

0.3.10

Two more from JJ's NAS-based library, plus a sibling app gets a mention.

Added

• One artwork for a whole batch. Batch edit (Import → Edit Selected) now has an artwork section: pick one image and it's applied to every file in the selection. When all the selected files matched the same title, TMDb's poster and backdrop variants are offered; a mixed selection takes an uploaded, dropped, or pasted image. Left empty, every file keeps its own artwork. Asked for by JJ.
• A "More from SmithyForge" note in Settings pointing at FindForge, our duplicate-file finder. And full disclosure: on your fifth launch, FlicksForge will mention FindForge once in a dialog — whichever button you press, that dialog never appears again, and the answer is only ever stored on your own Mac like every other setting.

Fixed

• Files handed to the TV app could silently vanish when your TV library lives on an external drive or NAS. TV.app pre-creates its default folders in your home folder even when the media folder has been moved, so FlicksForge's handoff could drop finished files into a folder nothing was watching — no error, no import. The "Add to Apple TV app" setting now shows exactly which folder the handoff points at, with a Choose button to aim it at your real library's "Automatically Add to TV" folder. Reported by JJ.
• The artwork chooser no longer offers "TMDb variants" that don't exist for an unmatched file or a mixed batch selection — its caption now says what's actually available: upload, drop, or paste.

0.3.9

The Apple TV handoff, made trustworthy — plus a clearer Settings page.

Fixed

• Files handed to the TV app could be rejected into a "Not Added" folder. FlicksForge copies finished files into TV.app's "Automatically Add to TV" folder, but TV.app grabs files the moment they appear — so a movie-sized copy could be taken half-written and rejected. (Dragging the same file in with Finder always worked, because a same-disk drag is an instant move.) The copy now lands under a hidden temporary name and is revealed in one atomic step, so TV.app only ever sees complete files. Reported by Pete.
• "Add to Apple TV app after processing" didn't stay set. The checkbox was only saved when a batch actually started, so toggling it and leaving the page quietly reverted it. It now saves immediately. Reported by Pete.

Added

• A guard against pointing your output at the auto-add folder itself. TV.app moves files out of that folder within seconds, while FlicksForge still has tagging left to do — so batches written there errored with "original file missing". Settings now warns and says what to do instead. Prompted by Pete.

Changed

• The Settings page now shows which settings belong to what. Grouped into visible sections — what a preset controls, how files are tagged, your folders (which presets can never touch), one-off batch choices, and the app itself — with plainer helper text throughout. Prompted by Geoff.

0.3.8

Two fixes from someone working through a season episode by episode.

• Auto-Match ignored the wide-artwork setting. Matching from the Import list always used the portrait poster, however the TV artwork preference was set — while dragging files onto the Dashboard behaved correctly, so one library could end up with a mixture depending on how files got in. Caused by a second copy of the matching logic that had drifted from the original; there's now just one. Reported by Ken.
• "Save & Next" never appeared when everything matched. It only looked for files needing review, so after a clean batch it dropped you back to the list to find your place again. It now moves to the next file you can edit. Reported by Ken.

0.3.7

What happens to your original files — and a TV naming fix.

Fixed

• TV filenames used the episode's year, not the show's. A series that ran 2005–2015 produced Show (2012) for a 2012 episode, where the convention — and Plex — expect the year the series began. If you write your own rules, the new token is {showYear}; {releaseDate} is unchanged, so existing rules behave exactly as before. Asked for by Geoff.
• Watch-folder files could never be trashed. The source was moved to the Processed folder first, after which the cleanup step ran against a path that no longer existed and failed without saying so. Originals piled up while appearing to be tidied away. Found while building Geoff's request.
• Presets overwrote your output format and "Add to Apple TV app". A preset describes how to convert; those are closer to workflow. Both can now be pinned. Asked for by Geoff.

New

• Choose what happens to the original — leave it, move it to a watch folder's Processed folder, or move it to the Trash. A saved setting, so it works for unattended pipelines.
• Outputs are verified before any original is moved. FlicksForge probes the finished file and compares it to the source: it must exist, be non-empty, and run the same length. A conversion that failed quietly keeps its original and flags the row.
• Optional quarantine (5 or 10 days). Originals wait in a folder on the same disk before reaching the Trash, with a Put back button for as long as they're held.

0.3.6

Track control and batch editing.

• Choose which audio tracks to keep — each listed with language, codec and channel layout. Dropping a track means rewriting the file, so FlicksForge says so before you start. Asked for by JJ.
• Drag subtitle files in — drop .srt, .ass, .ssa or .vtt onto the Subtitles panel. Asked for by JJ.
• Edit several files at once — set title, year, season and genre across a selection. Asked for by JJ.
• Apply track choices to a whole season — pick once, apply to every file with the same track layout. Files with a different layout are left alone and FlicksForge tells you. Asked for by JJ — and something iFlicks never did.

0.3.5

Three testers in one day. If you tagged TV episodes with an earlier version, this one asks something of you.

• TV episodes were missing a track number. That's the field Apple TV and iTunes sort a season by, so episodes were ordering alphabetically by title. Fixed — but it can't repair files already written. Re-tag those with Quick Tag and the ordering comes right. Found by Tony.
• New artwork didn't replace old artwork. Re-tagging a file that already had a poster kept showing the original. Diagnosed by Ken from behaviour alone.
• Season 0 was treated as no season — that's where specials live. Found by Ken.
• "Add to Apple TV app" started playback. Files are now imported quietly. Found by Pete.
• Keep original filenames — for libraries already named by FileBot or Sonarr. Asked for by Pete.
• Stop "(HD)" being added to titles. Asked for by Tony.
• Existing metadata is read and editable, and auto-match no longer overwrites it. Asked for by Ken.

0.3.4

Episode numbers you can actually correct.

• Season and episode are editable, with a Fetch episode info button. Previously the only way to change an episode number was to rename the file and re-import. Asked for by Ken.
• "Will be saved as" shows the full destination path before you process anything.
• Destination for this batch — a one-time override, including Tag in place, which writes tags into existing files with no copy or conversion.
• The output folder now saves when you pick it. Found by Ken.

Older releases aren't listed here — this page starts from the point where FlicksForge began being shaped by user email rather than by a roadmap.

Want something? support@flicksforge.com. Nearly every entry above started as an email from someone who assumed it was too small to mention.