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Very often movies will first be released as RAWs without subtitles, then afterwards, subtitles may be provided; but you can't be sure which RAW the subtitles are made for. The wrong raw for the wrong subtitles will most likely make the subtitles out of sync. With shadow-files you would be able to add the raws and the subtitle files to the correct shadow-file(s) in order to group them together in a logical way. | Very often movies will first be released as RAWs without subtitles, then afterwards, subtitles may be provided; but you can't be sure which RAW the subtitles are made for. The wrong raw for the wrong subtitles will most likely make the subtitles out of sync. With shadow-files you would be able to add the raws and the subtitle files to the correct shadow-file(s) in order to group them together in a logical way. | ||
===Illustrations=== | |||
Here I have made some (crap) illustrations to further illuminate how it works, and what the differences are: | |||
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|Current (without shadow-files) | |||
|style="border-left:1px solid;"|With shadow-files | |||
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|valign=bottom|[[Image:Current-normal.png|frame|none]] | |||
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|valign=top|Currently it works like this for normal files and episodes. | |||
|valign=top style="border-left:1px solid;"|With shadow-files, the episode would link to the shadow-file and the shadow-file would link to the real file. Note that the shadow-files are transparent here - you will not notice a difference. | |||
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|valign=bottom|[[Image:Current-multi.png|frame|none]] | |||
|valign=bottom style="border-left:1px solid;"|[[Image:Shadow-multi.png|frame|none]] | |||
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|valign=top|Currently if the file you have has multiple episodes in it, you need to add a generic file for the other episodes if you want to keep your mylist correct. | |||
|valign=top style="border-left:1px solid;"|With shadow-files, you would only add the file you have, and both episodes would be added to your mylist. | |||
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|valign=bottom|[[Image:Current-split.png|frame|none]] | |||
|valign=bottom style="border-left:1px solid;"|[[Image:Shadow-split.png|frame|none]] | |||
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|valign=top|Currently if an episode or movie is released in many files, you would haveto add each of those files to your mylist, and if they are not part of the regular episodes (i.e., listed as "<tt>O1 Episode 1 (Part 1 of 2)</tt>" and "<tt>O2 Episode 1 (Part 2 of 2)</tt>"), you would also need to add a generic file separately if you want your mylist to look like it should. | |||
|valign=top style="border-left:1px solid;"|With shadow-files all files would be associated with the correct episode. | |||
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==Current Workarounds== | ==Current Workarounds== | ||
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;Multiple episodes:The current workaround for split episodes is to add the file to the first episode that it contains, and add [[generic files]] to your mylist for the remaining episodes in the file instead.<br>For some OVAs though, there will be special "Other" episodes added named something like "O1 Episode 1-3" or something like that.<br><small>''[[Files:Multi-episode_files|further information]]''</small> | ;Multiple episodes:The current workaround for split episodes is to add the file to the first episode that it contains, and add [[generic files]] to your mylist for the remaining episodes in the file instead.<br>For some OVAs though, there will be special "Other" episodes added named something like "O1 Episode 1-3" or something like that.<br><small>''[[Files:Multi-episode_files|further information]]''</small> | ||
;Separate subtitles:There are a few different cases of these:<br>'''1.''' One subtitle file for one episode: the file will most likely be added to the episode with a comment telling which RAW(s) it belongs to.<br>'''2.''' Several subtitlefiles in an archive of some sort: The file will be added to a special "Other" listed as something like "O1 Subtitles for episodes 1-5".<br><small>''[[Content:Subtitles|further information]]''</small> | ;Separate subtitles:There are a few different cases of these:<br>'''1.''' One subtitle file for one episode: the file will most likely be added to the episode with a comment telling which RAW(s) it belongs to.<br>'''2.''' Several subtitlefiles in an archive of some sort: The file will be added to a special "Other" listed as something like "O1 Subtitles for episodes 1-5".<br><small>''[[Content:Subtitles|further information]]''</small> | ||
==Other resources== | ==Other resources== | ||