Tutorial:How to Add Files for Dummies!

AniDB is file based. Because of this every release (status) in AniDB is calculated from the added files! Keep that in mind.

Step 1

• Verify that the group you want to add a release for has already been added (see Groups).
• If not, add the group details before continuing.

Step 2

To add a group's release to AniDB you need ed2k-links of the files. There are multiple ways to generate those. One of the simplest, that also provides AniDB with a lot of metadata (hashes, length, bitrate- & codec info etc.), is Avdump.

Note	When using Avdump make sure you defined an API Key in your profile ( on AniDB) profile -> account -> set api key

• Get Avdump GUI
• Set your AniDB username and API password in the options menu.
• Activate the checkbox in front of the "export ed2k links to file" option and set a path in the field next to it where the file should be saved
• Save the options.
• Select what you want to scan from the main menu: files or folders.
• Select the stuff you want to scan (... Button) (you can select multiple files at once)
• Click Start.

Step 3

• Go to the entry of the Anime in AniDB you want to add a release for
• Scroll down to the groups block on the page and click add new release
• Open the log file from the path you set in Avdump. It should contain various lines of text starting with ed2k://.
• Copy and paste those lines into the big text area in the AniDB website in add new release
• Set the group and language options
• Click next
• Set the episodes the files belong to. AniDB tries to recognize some parameter from the file names, but this is not guaranteed to work 100%

Step 4 (optional)

In case a file spans multiple episodes you should add the file to the first episode it spans completely. Afterwards you will have to do one more thing:

• go to the entry of the file where you can see all the file related details like bitrate, codec etc.
• at the bottom of that page you will find a link called add new episode relation
• choose the other episode this file belongs to and hit add. (you might have to repeat this process depending on how many episodes it spans)