Core Model
Scryer splits your collection into three behavior categories — movie, series, and anime — called facets. They’re the Movies, Series, and Anime items in the left navigation.
The facet decides how a title behaves: metadata type, episodic handling, default monitoring, rename vocabulary, and facet-specific settings. A library is stored under a facet, but the facet is not itself a folder.
Anime, for example, uses episodic behavior like Series, but can also expose anime-specific policy such as filler, recap, specials, and inter-season movie handling.
Catalog
Section titled “Catalog”When you open the Movies, Series, or Anime overview pages, you’re browsing that facet’s catalog — the set of titles Scryer knows about for the facet and the libraries you can access.
The catalog is a browsing and management surface, not a filesystem library. One catalog view may show titles from multiple libraries if your account can access them.
Movies, for example, can show all movie titles across the movie libraries you can view.
Library
Section titled “Library”A library is a configured collection boundary inside a facet — it owns roots, access permissions, scans, import destinations, and library-level defaults.
You’ll work with libraries in library selectors, user permissions, library settings, scans, and path-related configuration. A catalog can span multiple libraries; a library is one managed boundary inside that catalog.
A Movies catalog, for example, can include a “Main Movies” library and an “Archive Movies” library with different roots and permissions.
Movie Library
Section titled “Movie Library”
Series Library
Section titled “Series Library”
Anime Library
Section titled “Anime Library”
A title is one managed media entity in Scryer. A movie is a single title; series and anime titles contain seasons, episodes, specials, or related segments.
You’ll work with titles everywhere: in catalog tables, poster grids, title overview pages, Wanted, Calendar, and History.
A monitored series title, for example, can create wanted items for missing or cutoff-unmet episodes.
Title Overview
Section titled “Title Overview”Open any title and you land on its title overview — the detail page with metadata, monitoring controls, local files, episodes where applicable, history, and title-specific actions.
You can reach a title overview from catalog rows, calendar entries, wanted rows, and global search results.
Opening a series title overview, for example, lets you inspect seasons and episode-level status.
Movie Title Overview
Section titled “Movie Title Overview”
Series Title Overview
Section titled “Series Title Overview”
Anime Title Overview
Section titled “Anime Title Overview”
Global Search
Section titled “Global Search”Need to find or add a title from anywhere in the app? Global search is the app-wide search field in the Scryer header. It searches existing catalog titles and uncataloged metadata matches in parallel, then lets you open a title overview or start the add-to-catalog flow without navigating through a facet first.
Searching for a title from the header returns both cataloged results and uncataloged metadata matches grouped by facet.
Wanted Item
Section titled “Wanted Item”A wanted item is a piece of work Scryer has determined is missing, pending, or below the configured cutoff. You’ll find wanted items under the Wanted navigation group.
Scryer produces wanted items from catalog state, monitoring settings, quality profiles, and existing media state — they’re not a general-purpose search tutorial.
A monitored episode that’s missing from disk, for example, can stay in Wanted Items until it’s resolved or ignored.
Cutoff Unmet
Section titled “Cutoff Unmet”Cutoff unmet is the state for a monitored item that exists locally but doesn’t satisfy the cutoff in its selected quality profile. You’ll find these items under Wanted > Cutoff Unmet.
Cutoff unmet is a kind of wanted follow-up — it ties together quality profiles, title monitoring, and the current local file state.
A monitored movie, for example, can leave the missing list but stay in Cutoff Unmet until it satisfies the configured profile cutoff.
Pending
Section titled “Pending”Pending is the waiting state for wanted work Scryer isn’t ready to continue yet. You’ll find it under Wanted > Pending.
Pending relates to delay profiles, provider state, and in-progress operations, and it’s separate from missing and cutoff-unmet state.
A monitored episode, for example, can be pending because the configured delay profile is still holding it.
Release
Section titled “Release”A release is candidate metadata Scryer evaluates against your configured policies to make decisions such as allowed, rejected, delayed, or preferred.
You’ll see releases in decision history, interactive review surfaces, and activity records. The docs use the term only for Scryer’s evaluation model.
A candidate can be rejected, for example, because it doesn’t satisfy the selected quality profile.
Import
Section titled “Import”An import is how Scryer takes a completed local item, matches it to a known title, and moves or renames it into the configured library location.
You’ll handle imports in the per-facet Import pages and in Activity. The Import menu and pages only appear when Scryer has work that needs your review.
A completed item with an ambiguous match, for example, can require manual review before it’s placed in a library.
History
Section titled “History”History is an audit-style record of decisions, operations, imports, and title activity. Scryer has multiple history views because each answers a different question.
Activity History focuses on operational import and activity records. Wanted History focuses on wanted-state and decision history.
Use Activity History when you’re troubleshooting an import; use Wanted History when you’re reviewing why a title or episode changed state.
Wanted History
Section titled “Wanted History”
Monitoring
Section titled “Monitoring”Monitoring tells Scryer to keep evaluating a title or episode according to the configured policy. Unmonitored items remain in the catalog but don’t drive the same automated work.
You’ll find monitoring controls in add-title flows, catalog lists, title overviews, and bulk edit dialogs.
A monitored movie, for example, can produce wanted or cutoff-unmet work; an unmonitored movie is retained as a catalog record without the same ongoing evaluation.