Features
Entertainment Library Synchronizer (ELS) has a variety of basic and advanced features
that may be used in a variety of ways.
Basics
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ELS is both a desktop application, the Navigator, and can be used as a command line tool.
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Views a collection as a set of logical libraries and titles that may span multiple storage devices.
- Navigator may be used on:
- A workstation for collecting & creating new content.
- A data/media server, e.g. Plex server.
- A back-up for either a workstation or server.
- Together these modes support a variety of scenarios.
- ELS Navigator displays two collections, a publisher and a subscriber.
- A publisher is a workstation or a data/media server.
- A subscriber is a data/media server or a back-up.
- Each has two tabs, one for the logical collection and another for the system the collection is on.
- Directories and files may copied, moved, deleted, renamed, etc.
- Local files may be opened, viewed, played, etc.
- ELS command line may be used to execute back-ups and may be automated with a scheduler.
- Built-in updater.
Advanced
• Operations
ELS uses a publisher/subscriber paradigm and can operate in a variety of ways.
- Most Common
- Local Publish
- Remote Publish
- Subscriber Listener
- Advanced
- Hint Status Server
- Publisher Terminal
- Publisher Listener
- Subscriber Terminal
- Hint Server force quit
- Subscriber Listener force quit
Built-in Tools. External tools will be supported in 4.1.
- Duplicate Finder
- Empty Directory Finder
- Junk Remover
- Operations
- Renamer
- Sleep tool
All the Operations are in one program.
• Jobs
Any number Jobs may be defined for manual or automated execution.
- User-definable Jobs are a sequence of Tools put into Tasks.
• Security
- Blacklist and whitelist to avoid hack attempts against listener Operations.
- All remote communication is encrypted from the initial “handshake”.
• Hints
Hints are used to coordinate manual changes (deletes, renames and moves) in collections.