Tutorial:How to Add Files for Dummies!

The Basics

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! While this step provides details for avdump, any application that can generate ed2k-links can be used.

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%