Folicon - v4.4.0 - Revival

🚀 FoliCon v4.4.0

✨ New Features

🖼️ Windows 11–Style Poster Icon Overlay

A sleek new Windows 11–style icon overlay for users who prefer a native Windows look.
Note: Best suited for horizontal posters.

🎮 Multiple Videos for Games

Poster Mode now supports multiple videos per game, rather than just one.
Previously, this functionality was limited to TV and Movie modes.

🔍 Transparency Support in Image Viewer

Image previews (on single-click) now correctly display transparency, allowing for accurate visualization of PNGs and other transparent formats.

---

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Poster Mode – Resolved an exception triggered during parallel icon creation.
  (#239)
• Overly Sharp Posters – Fixed overly aliased posters in Liaher and Faelpessoal overlays.
• Poster Mode Dependency on DeviantArt – Poster Mode now works even when DeviantArt is unreachable.
  Professional Mode will display an error when DeviantArt services are unavailable.
• Professional Mode Progress Bar Stuck – Progress bar now dismisses properly after search errors.
• Performance Enhancements & Library Updates – Improved responsiveness and updated all dependencies to their latest stable versions.

---

🧩 Developer Updates

• Integrated Crowdin for streamlined localization management.
• Migrated to .NET 9, delivering improved stability and performance.

---

⚠️ Known Issue

• DeviantArt Unreachable (Intermittent) – DeviantArt API may time out due to rate limiting.
  The issue is being monitored, and the app will notify users in real time when it occurs.

---

💻 System Requirements

• .NET: Requires .NET 9 or higher
  👉 Download .NET

• WebView2 Runtime: Required (pre-installed on Windows 11)
  👉 Download for other versions

---

🔗 Full Changelog: v4.3.3 → v4.4.0

Folicon - v4.3.3 bugFix release

🐞 Bug Fixes

• fix #217 - Collection folder gives error when searching via poster mode Auto(movies & TV) search

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.3.2...v4.3.3

FoliCon - v4.3.2

✨ New Features

• Multiple videos - Poster mode now lets you see all available videos for the media instead of only a single video.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Professional Mode Search - Modify professional mode to replace removed API with new one (deviantArt revision 20240701)

• Search Window Behavior - Fixed an issue where the search window would appear even if 'ignore ambiguous' was enabled. If no results are found while 'ignore ambiguous' is true, the search result window will no longer be displayed, aligning it with the behavior for multiple results.

• UI Freeze During Icon Download - Resolved a UI freeze that occurred just before the final icon download process.

• Icon Creation Progress Indicator - Added a progress indicator for icon creation immediately following the icon download progress.

• Performance Enhancements - Implemented various performance improvements for a smoother experience.

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2

FoliCon - v4.3.2-beta-1

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Search Window Behavior - Fixed an issue where the search window would appear even if 'ignore ambiguous' was enabled. If no results are found while 'ignore ambiguous' is true, the search result window will no longer be displayed, aligning it with the behavior for multiple results.

• UI Freeze During Icon Download - Resolved a UI freeze that occurred just before the final icon download process.

• Icon Creation Progress Indicator - Added a progress indicator for icon creation immediately following the icon download progress.

• Performance Enhancements - Implemented various performance improvements for a smoother experience.

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2-beta-1

FoliCon v4.3.1 - Precison

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Change approach to filter files extracted by "gallery extraction" feature, Fixes #211

The filtering works by showing only png if a image is duplicate by different types, in some cases you may see blur images, these are ico files, You are free to select them as well.

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.3...v4.3.1

FoliCon v4.3 - Precison

🚀 Release v4.3 - "Precision"

✨ New Features

• Professional Mode image gallery extraction - You can now extract a gallery from Professional mode, where single image wasn't directly available, This gives you more choices in poster selection. Implemented request #202 , See Docs
• Improve sub-folder processing feature
  • Sub-folder processing is now also supported in professional mode.
  • Add option to toggle sub-folder processing while searching

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Auto-focus on Professional Mode Search Bar -Once all posters have loaded, or if the process stops, the search bar in professional mode will be automatically focused.
• No result error - Fixed an issue where a "No result" error was displayed when loading images in professional mode by pagination.
• Total Folders Count - Fixed an issue that incorrectly projected the total folder count.
• Skip all not working - Fixed an issue where the "skip all" option from the search window wasn't working when no result were found.

🔧 Updates

• Package Dependencies - To ensure FoliCon remains reliable and secure, all package dependencies have been updated to their latest, most stable versions.

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.2...v4.3

FoliCon v4.2 - The Pattern Pioneer

🚀 Release v4.2 - "The Pattern Pioneer"

✨ New Features

• [Experimental] Regular Expression Patterns for Sub-folder Matching - FoliCon now supports regular expression patterns for sub-folder matching. This powerful feature enables you to control which sub-folders foliCon scans, offering precise matching capabilities. Please note, this feature is disabled by default, but can be enabled, disabled, or customized with new patterns as per your requirements.
  See https://dineshsolanki.github.io/FoliCon-docs/subfolder-processing.html (Fix #196 )

🔧 Updates

• Package Dependencies - To ensure FoliCon remains reliable and secure, all package dependencies have been updated to their latest, most stable versions.

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.1...v4.2

FoliCon v4.1 - Better search, More details

🚀 Release v4.1

✨ New Features

• Enhanced Collection Search - FoliCon now displays story-line/plots/overview for collections in the poster mode movie search.
• Improved Nested Folder Search - FoliCon has been upgraded to search within nested folders (e.g., Movie collection-> (part1, 2,3)). When you select 'skip all', it will only bypass all titles in the current folder (Movie collection). Please note the tool tip on the 'skip all' button for more information. (#192)

See folicon-docs

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v4.0...v4.1

FoliCon v4.0 - Optimization, Customization, and Enhanced User Experience!

🚀 Release v4.0

✨ New Features

• WebView2 Control - FoliCon has been upgraded to use WebView 2, offering a smoother experience in poster mode and fixing intermittent UI freeze issues when loading videos.

• Performance Optimization - Under-the-hood improvements have been made to enhance performance.

• Plex Standard Naming Recognition - FoliCon is now capable of parsing the year and external id of media from the title. The title must follow TITLE (YEAR) {externalProvider-ID} format, e.g. Chernobyl (2019) {tmdb-87108}. (Refer to pull request #185). Credits to @Soitora for the suggestion.

  • Supports IMDb, TMDb, and TVDB.
  • The year and id are optional, although id is recommended. If only the year is present, FoliCon will use that, but multiple results may still appear.
  • The id is supported only in movie and TV modes, whereas in 'multi' mode, only the year is used.

• Rating Shield Visibility - The rating shield is now hidden by default to reduce visual clutter until it is specifically needed.

• Support for Unicode Characters - Unicode characters U+2236 and U+A789 are now supported and shouldn't result in false searches, while other Unicode characters will be stripped from media titles.

See folicon-docs

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Incorrect Rating Decimals for Auto-Picked Titles - Corrected the issue where ratings would exceed two decimal places for auto-picked titles.
• Collection Search Error - Fixed an error that would occur when including collection folders in movie searches.

⚠️ Important Notice

This version introduces a significant change due to the icon renaming. You will need to manually delete the .ico and desktop.ini files in folders previously processed with an older version of FoliCon, or use this PowerShell script to migrate to the new naming scheme.

Executing the script requires the following:

1. Download the script and place it in the parent folder (such as C://movies).
2. Right-click on the script and select 'Run with PowerShell'.
3. Confirm the prompt to proceed with the folder clean-up.

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.

Full Changelog: v3.13...v4.0

FoliCon v3.14-beta-2

Release v3.14-beta-2

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Collection Search Error - Resolved an issue causing errors when including collection folders in the movie search.

• Icon Visibility for Folders with Unicode Characters - Fixed an issue where the icon would not display for folders with Unicode characters in the name.

⚠️ Important Notice

This version introduces a breaking change due to the renaming of the icon. If you've previously processed folders with an older version of FoliCon, you will need to manually delete the .ico and desktop.ini files or use this PowerShell script to migrate to the new naming convention.

To use the script, follow these steps:

1. Download and place the script in the parent folder (such as C://movies).
2. Right-click on the script and select 'Run with PowerShell'.
3. You'll be asked if you want to proceed with the current folder; enter 'y' to start the process.

Due to this breaking change, next release version would be v4.0

System Requirements

• .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
• WebView2: This application requires WebView2 Control. It is pre-installed on Windows 11. For other operating systems, you can download it here.

Full Changelog: v3.13...v3.14-beta-2