Buttons & controls

What every button, list and letter in Kuraya does. Hover any button in the app to see its name.

New here? Start with the Setup window, copy a few movies into your Inbox folder and press Process Inbox 📥. Then right-click a movie → Scrape Movie.

The top toolbar — left

Small icons next to the search box.

🔍	Search box	Type any part of a title, DVD-ID, actress, studio or genre. `space` = all words must match, `,` = any of them, `+` = genre AND genre. The ⓘ next to it explains the syntax; the clock icon shows your recent searches.
🖥️	Log	Opens the live log (also `Ctrl`+`L`). Useful when you report a problem.
🛡️	Doctor Guard	Shows the background guard. Green = all fine; a number = issues it found. Click to see them and fix the safe ones.
▦	Task Console	Every job that runs in the background (subtitles, converter, metadata, guard). Tick a box to run that job, untick to stop it. Auto OFF means nothing starts by itself.
▶	Resume scrape	Only appears when you minimised a scrape — reopens it where it stopped.
⏷	Taste filter	Build a "keep list" from your favourites. When active (red), movies outside your taste are marked as delete candidates.
📺	Tube	Search the tube sites inside Kuraya, play in the built-in player and keep favourites.
🔎	Identify unknown clip	Pick any video file — Kuraya finds out which film (DVD-ID) it is.
📂	Local & LAN browser	Open any drive or network share and play movies straight away. Shows only movies; All movies lists every movie in all subfolders, Not in app hides the ones already in your library.

The big buttons — middle

The main jobs, always in the centre of the toolbar.

🆕	New Releases	The newest films from the movie sites, with the ones you own marked. Press again to go back to your library.
🔄	Scan Library	Reads all your library folders and the Inbox from disk again. Use it after you copied movies in with Explorer.
CC	Scan Burned Subs	Finds movies whose English subtitles are burned into the picture.
📋	Pre-Inbox	The waiting room before the Inbox: joins multi-part movies (CD1/CD2), removes duplicates and lets you check everything before it moves on.
🕘	Trash / History	Undo a recent delete, replace, rename or move while it is still in the trash.
📥	Process Inbox	Organises new files in your Inbox: finds the DVD-ID, checks for duplicates and moves each movie into the library.
👥	Media Tools	Actor photos and bios, metadata refill and the Movie Sorter (genre rules, synonyms, blacklists).
🩺	Doctor	A full health check of the library: missing covers, broken files, leftovers, wrong names. Shows what it found and fixes it on request.

The top toolbar — right

Small icons on the right.

❓	Help	What every button does, Troubleshooting, Report a problem (saves a log report on your Desktop) and Check for updates.
⚙️	Settings	All options, grouped and searchable: folders, scrapers, subtitles, the player, the look.
🔍	Check Duplicates	Finds the same film more than once (by DVD-ID, file content and sound) and lets you keep the best copy.
🧹	Cleanup Duplicates	Removes duplicate rows from Kuraya's list (not your files).
🗑️	Clean Cache	Repairs Kuraya's list quickly: wrong flags, double rows and entries whose folder is gone. Fast, no disk rescan, your files are not touched.
❓	DVD-ID review	Only appears when some file names could not be recognised. Click to type the right DVD-ID.

How the Task Console takes turns

Every background job has a box. The badge on the box says what it needs: GPU (graphics card), NET (internet) or CPU.

▶	Auto ON / OFF	OFF = nothing starts by itself (only what you start by hand). ON = the ticked boxes run in the background.
GPU	One GPU job at a time	Transcribe + Translate, Video Converter and the Burned-sub Detector share the graphics card. Only one runs; the others wait in line and their boxes turn grey. Long-press a grey box to force it on.
NET	Internet jobs run alongside	Metadata Backfill and Idle Genre Re-scrape use the internet, not the graphics card, so they run at the same time as a GPU job.
CPU	Doctor Guard	Checks the library in small steps and steps aside on its own when something heavier is busy.
⏸	You always come first	While you scrape or the Pre-Inbox is working, transcription and the internet jobs pause and continue afterwards.
⏳	Video Converter waits	The converter only starts when no movie is waiting for subtitles any more, so subtitles are never delayed by converting.
%	The percentage	How much of your library still needs that job. Run the box with the highest number first.
■	Stop	Finishes the movie it is working on, then stops. Nothing is cut off half-way.

In what order are movies transcribed?

1	Your own choice	Right-click → Transcribe + Translate jumps the whole queue.
2	Newly scraped	Movies that just came through the Pre-Inbox / Inbox — always, even with Auto OFF.
3	Favourites	Movies you marked ❤️.
4	The rest of the Inbox	Only when Auto is ON.
5	The library	Movies with no subtitle, newest first. A movie that already has an English subtitle is never redone automatically — right-click → Transcribe + Translate if you want a new one.
✓	Then the GPU is free	When no movie is waiting for subtitles, the graphics card is free for the other jobs, like the Video Converter.
↻	Translating	While the next movie is transcribed on the graphics card, the previous one is translated over the internet at the same time — so the queue keeps moving.

Skipped on purpose: movies with no audio or no speech, movies that already have a downloaded or extracted English subtitle (those are never replaced), and titles blocked by the content filter.

The second row — filters and views

Combine them: e.g. Source = Inbox + Badge letters = "E — No English".

	Source	Which movies to show: All, all libraries, only the Inbox, the Pre-Inbox or the duplicates area.
	Flags	Movies you marked: fanart mismatch, marked for deletion, playback error, no sound, foreign subtitles, bad English subtitles, wrong disc.
	Content	Needs scraping, needs renaming, complete movies, uncensored with burned subs, censored movies not yet checked for an uncensored version, minor-flagged (review).
	Badge letters	Filter by the letters on the cards: has / missing video, fanart, poster, NMP file, burned subs (also by language), transcript (T), English made by Kuraya (E), downloaded English (D), uncensored (U), locked (L).
	View	Fanart (wide covers), Poster (tall covers), Favourites, Actors or Series.
	Sort	Title, ID, actress, library, date, random, recently added / viewed, favourited, series. The ↓ next to it flips the direction.
	Card size / theme	The slider changes the card size; the theme button switches dark and light.

The letters on every movie card

Green = present, red = missing. Hover a letter to see the files behind it.

V	Video	The video file is there.
F	Fanart	The wide cover is there.
P	Poster	The tall cover is there.
N	NMP	Kuraya's information file (title, cast, genres…) is there.
B	Burned	Subtitles are burned into the picture.
T	Transcript	A Japanese or Chinese subtitle made from the audio.
E	English	English subtitles made by Kuraya.
D	Downloaded	English subtitles you downloaded.
U	Uncensored	The movie is uncensored.
L	Locked	Kuraya will not change this movie automatically.

Right-click on a movie

Everything you can do with one movie.

▶	Play Movie	Plays it in Kuraya's own player (subtitles load automatically).
🔄	Scan This Movie	Reads just this folder from disk again.
✏️	Quick Edit	Change the title, genres and the sort genres (g1–g4) in one small window.
🌐	Scrape Movie	Asks the movie sites about this film and shows every answer side by side — pick the best cover, title, cast and genres.
🧪	Check Which Scrapers Have This Movie	Quick test of which sites know this DVD-ID.
💬	Edit / Add Subtitle	Attach a subtitle file you have, or make one: Transcribe + Translate turns the movie's audio into English subtitles.
🔧	Repair Video	Fixes a file that will not play or seek properly.
✂️	Scan for Start Ad	Finds an advert glued to the start of the movie so it can be cut off.
🛠️	NMP Re-Creator	Rebuilds the information file from what is in the folder.
ℹ️	View Movie Details	All information about the movie on one page.
📚	Show Series	Every film of the same series — which you own and which are missing.
📁	Open Movie Folder	Opens the folder in Explorer.
🖼️	Fanart tools	Download fanart from the internet, search manually, or make a poster from the fanart.
📦	Sort into V2 folder	Moves the movie to Studio \ genres \ DVD-ID — the same place its badge shows.
📅	Change Date Added to Today	Makes it show up under "Recently added" again.
🙈	Hide from Library	Removes it from Kuraya's list but leaves the files on disk.
🗑️	Delete Folder & Files	Deletes the movie for real — Kuraya always asks first.

Working with many movies

Select first, then right-click.

☑️	Select several movies	Click the tick box on a card, or `Ctrl`/`Shift`-click. The right-click menu then works on all of them.
🌐	Bulk Scrape Selected	Scrapes all selected movies in one go.
✏️	Bulk edit	Quick Edit, metadata, genres or genre & location for many movies at once.
📏	Fix names to 255 rule	Shortens folder and file names that are too long for Windows.
🔓	Find Uncensored / Eng-Sub Versions	Searches for a better version (uncensored or English-subtitled) of the selected movies.
⭐	Favourites, lock, flags	Add to / remove from favourites, lock or unlock, mark uncensored / censored, flag for review.
📦	Move / sort / hide / delete	Move to another folder, sort into the V2 layout, hide or delete several movies at once.

Setup, background jobs and tools

	Setup (first start)	Choose your folders and download the free helper tools (FFmpeg is required; the others are optional and each says what it is for). Open it again from the welcome screen.
	Task Console boxes	Transcribe + Translate makes English subtitles for movies without them. Video Converter shrinks big files to HEVC (it checks picture, sound and length before replacing). Metadata Backfill fills missing information. Idle Genre Re-scrape improves genres while you do nothing. Doctor Guard checks the library in small steps. The % on each box shows how much is still to do.
	DeepSeek key	Without a key Kuraya makes free English subtitles with Whisper. With a DeepSeek key (about 3 US cents per movie) the English is much better. Paste it in Setup → Tools or Settings → API Credentials.
	Browser extension (Edge / Chrome)	Optional helper for scraping: it passes the Cloudflare check of movie sites you open in Edge to Kuraya. Open `edge://extensions` (Chrome: `chrome://extensions`). Switch on Developer mode. Click Load unpacked and choose the Browser extension folder inside your Kuraya folder. Keep Edge open while you scrape — the extension hands Kuraya the "I am not a robot" pass of the sites you visit.
	Duplicates folder	For DVD-IDs that clash. Some different movies share the same DVD-ID (studios reuse codes). When the Inbox finds such a pair and you choose Keep both, Kuraya moves both movies into the Duplicates folder, so neither one overwrites the other or gets the other's cover, title or subtitle. Check them there (Source → Duplicates), give each the right ID and scrape them again.
	Movie Sorter	In Media Tools. Series Paths and Sort show where each movie belongs and move it there; Categories, Synonyms and Blacklist come set up already — only change them if you want different genre rules.