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Activity feed

The Activity page (/activity) lists every metadata change across your whole library -- manual edits, provider refreshes, rule fixes, and reverts -- newest first.

Open the Activity page

Click Activity in the sidebar, or View all activity at the bottom of the Dashboard's recent-activity rail.

Read an entry

Each entry shows the artist, a source badge (Manual, Scan, Import, Revert, Provider, or Rule), a value label beside it (see below), and a relative timestamp. The current version records no Import changes, so that badge appears only on older entries. Click the entry to expand it and see the field's old and new values side by side.

Where a value came from

Each entry says two separate things:

  • The badge says what started the change. Manual means someone started it from Stillwater (an edit, a refresh, or a pull from Emby or Jellyfin), not that they typed the value.
  • The Value label says what supplied the value, for example "Value: set by a user", "Value: from Last.fm", "Value: from the NFO file", or "Value: restored an earlier value".

The label is left out only when it would repeat the badge, such as on a Revert or Rule entry. Entries that show Value source not recorded are changes where Stillwater did not record what supplied the value: every change made before value sources were tracked, and a few changes where it cannot be known, such as a merged list from several providers. Older entries are not filled in after the fact, so this label on an old entry is permanent. French and Japanese show these labels in English.

Undo a change

Entries for trackable fields carry an Undo button (hidden on revert entries themselves, since you can't revert a revert). Undoing asks for confirmation, then restores the field's prior value and adds a new "Revert" entry at the top of the feed -- the original entry stays in place as a record of what happened.

Filter

Click Filters to open the flyout, which has two facets:

  • Change Type -- the field that changed (Biography, Genres, Styles, Moods, Type, Gender, and other trackable fields), plus a synthetic "Rule fix" entry that surfaces automated repairs the rule engine performed (filesystem, image, and NFO fixes).
  • Trigger Source -- Manual, Scan, Import, Revert, Provider, or Rule. The Manual filter also lists values a provider supplied through an edit, since the badge records what started the change, not who wrote the value.

Each is a standard include-list of checkboxes (not tri-state); select one or more values per facet and they combine with an AND across facets.

Filter by date

The date bar above the feed lets you set a From and To date and click Apply to narrow the feed to that range. Clear appears once a date filter is active and resets it.

Pagination

The feed loads a page of entries at a time with a "Showing X of Y" counter at the bottom; scroll to the bottom to load more.

See also

  • Edit an artist for the per-field prior-values popover, a scoped alternative to reverting from the activity feed.
  • Dashboard for the live-updating recent-activity rail this page's history feeds.