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Browsing The Library

Prismedia has two complementary views of your library:

  • Browse pages show catalog entities: movies, series, videos, images, galleries, comics, eBooks, audio, artists, people, studios, tags, and collections.
  • Files shows watched roots and folders exactly as they sit on disk.

Dashboard​

The dashboard opens with your activity: a Continue Watching row of everything you're partway through (videos, shows, and books), a Recently Watched row, and per-type rows that lead with your most recently added items. It also surfaces library totals, worker state, and update notices.

Dashboard

Movies, series, and videos​

  • Movies are single-file movies in their own folders (see Videos, Movies & Series). They get their own posters and detail pages.
  • Series groups videos into series, seasons, and episodes. Episodes opened from the Videos library link back to their show via a breadcrumb and a series cover in the Details tab.
  • Videos is the flat view of standalone videos.

Videos

All three support grid, list, and media-wall browsing, library-wide search, sort, filters, and bulk actions.

Images and galleries​

Images are loose image files. Galleries are folders of images and animated clips, and they nest. Gallery details show child galleries, image grids, metadata, ratings, tags, linked people/studios, and artwork.

Galleries

Browse images and galleries as Grid, List, or Feed (a full-width column at each item's real shape, with animated items playing inline). Clicking an item opens the universal lightbox.

Comics and eBooks​

The Comics section narrows the Books library to comics and manga; eBooks narrows it to EPUB/PDF books and novels; Books lists everything. See Books, Comics & eBooks.

Book detail with reading progress

Books open in a focused reader with paged/vertical (and PDF scroll) modes, resume state, and chapter/volume navigation.

Audio​

Audio is folder-backed artists, albums, and tracks. Library detail pages show sub-libraries, album-style track lists, cover art, ratings, resume state, and linked metadata. Starting a track opens a persistent player that survives navigation.

Audio

People, studios, and tags​

People, studios, and tags are library entities, not just labels. Their detail pages list associated movies, series, videos, images, galleries, books, and audio from explicit relationships. Library cards carry live reference-count chips, and you can create, delete, sort by usage, and filter for orphaned entries from these pages.

People

Collections​

Collections are simple groupings for browsing and curation — manual, dynamic (rule-driven), or hybrid. See Collections.

Collections

Files​

The Files workspace is the file manager for watched roots.

Files

From Files you can:

  • Open linked catalog entities.
  • Create folders and upload files.
  • Rename and move files or folders.
  • Rescan a root, folder, or file.
  • Exclude paths from future scans and remove exclusions later.
  • Delete files or folders when the media mount is writable.

Files opens with folders collapsed. Use Browse for media metadata; use Files for source-folder control.

Library views, sort, and filters​

Grids sort and filter across the entire collection, not just the loaded page:

  • Sort: Date added (newest, the default), Title (ignoring leading "The/A/An"), Rating, and Random (a stable shuffle across pages, with a reshuffle button).
  • Filter: an adaptive status filter (Watched/Unwatched/In progress for video and audio; Read/Unread/Reading for books), Favorites, Organized, NSFW, Has file, rating thresholds, and Unrated.
  • Views: Grid, List, Feed (images/galleries), and a media-wall toggle.

Each grid remembers its search, sort, view, card size, and toolbar state per page and per device.

Search and command palette​

The dedicated Search page spans every entity type and highlights direct matches first, followed by related media for matched people, studios, and tags.

Search

Press Cmd+K (macOS) or Ctrl+K (elsewhere) to open the command palette from any page. Results are grouped per category with a "See all" link.

Mobile​

Mobile keeps primary browse and operate surfaces reachable from touch-first layouts, with a bottom bar and a swipe-up navigation drawer. Detail pages, grids, readers, lightboxes, Files, and audio playback all avoid hover-only core actions. See Navigation & Mobile Gestures.

Mobile dashboard Mobile videos Mobile files