Taiga makes life easier for anime enthusiasts

1. Make sure Taiga is installed to its default directory (C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Taiga). If you have it installed under a protected directory such as Program Files, Windows may prevent Taiga from saving its settings and other data.
2. If there's a security application on your system, try whitelisting Taiga. It might be blocking Taiga from working properly.
3. Try running Taiga as administrator.

This feature requires using the Discord desktop client (i.e. it won't work if you open Discord in a regular web browser).

Display current activity as a status message option at Discord desktop client's Activity Settings → Activity Privacy must be enabled. But do not add Taiga as a game, or it will show up when you're not watching anything.

In Taiga, make sure you have Tools → Enable auto sharing and Settings → Sharing → Discord → Update rich presence options enabled.

Note that the delay time at Settings → Recognition affects automatic sharing too.

Rich presence updates may take an additional 15 seconds to appear, due to Discord's rate limit.

The process consists of two distinct operations: Media detection and filename identification.

First of all, Taiga checks all windows to see if there are any media players (or web browsers) running, with help from Anisthesia. When it finds one, it goes on to use various methods to retrieve the filename of the video (for web browsers, it's the page title).

This is where Anitomy comes in. This piece of software, designed specifically for Taiga and similar applications, is able to parse anime video filenames and extract their elements. It uses advanced techniques, rather than simply applying regular expressions or ignoring everything inside brackets.

Here's an example filename: [TaigaSubs]_Toradora!_-_01_[720p].mkv

And here's what Taiga sees:

• Release group: TaigaSubs
• Anime title: Toradora!
• Episode number: 01
• Video resolution: 720p
• File extension: mkv

Once Taiga has this information, it goes on to look up the anime title (in this case, Toradora!) in its database. This database consists of all the titles the active service provides (e.g. Romaji titles, English titles, synonyms) for your anime list, as well as cached search results. Taiga does lots of smart things so that it doesn't trip over capitalization, punctuation and different numbering schemes. If available, Taiga looks up the name of the parent directory too, so that it's able to identify something like X:\Anime\Toradora!\01 - Tiger and Dragon.mkv.

When Taiga finds a single exact match (e.g. Toradora! → Toradora!), it's done. This is what happens most of the time. When there are multiple matches that are equally likely, or when there are no direct matches, recognition fails. In these cases, Taiga displays a list of similar titles on the Now Playing page. You can click on a title to add the current title as an alternative title for that anime, after which it will be recognized. In other cases, you may need to manually add alternative titles via the Anime Information dialog. This is the primary method for resolving recognition issues.

Note that when you scan your library folders for available episodes or check your RSS feed for new releases, the process works just the same. Taiga parses each filename and tries to identify them.

It's almost the same system that is used by foobar2000 and Mp3tag. The basic idea is as following:

Variables are replaced by their corresponding values. If you're watching the third episode of Toradora!, %title% - %episode% will appear as Toradora! - 3.

Functions allow you to set conditions or modify things. Here's some examples:

• $ifequal(%episode%,1,First episode!,Another episode!) will output First episode! if you're watching the first episode of some series.
• $substr($replace(Aisaka,s,b),2,4) will output baka, replacing the s with a b, and then returning the first 4 characters starting from the 2nd one (zero-indexed).
• #$replace(%title%, ,) will output the anime title as a hashtag (e.g. #OnePunchMan).

Click the Add... button in the Edit Format dialog to see a list of available functions and variables.

Admittedly, these strings become pretty complicated once you start combining functions. If you have a better solution in mind that'd provide the same level of customizability, let us know.

Before checking for new torrents, you may set up some filters in order to automatically select the ones you're interested in and discard the others. Each filter consists of one or more conditions, and an action to be performed on torrents that match those conditions, such as, "if the video resolution is less than 720p, discard the torrent". It's possible to limit a filter to one or more anime in your library.

Discard and Select actions work the way you'd expect, whereas Prefer is a bit more complicated: If it's a general filter, torrents that don't match the filter are discarded. If it's a limited filter, torrents that match the filter are selected, and torrents that don't match the filter are discarded.

Keep in mind that:

• No torrents are selected by default.
• Filters are processed from top to bottom.
• It's not possible to select previously discarded torrents.
• It's possible to discard previously selected torrents.

There's more than one way to achieve what you want with filters. For instance, you can either select everything on your currently-watching list and then go about discarding bad fansub group names and other keywords, or you can just create a new limited filter for each anime and choose a fansub group and video resolution for it. The latter will give you more control over each title.