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title: feat: ignore a staging folder for good
status: closed
labels: []
created: 2026-09-14
closed:
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Junk folders and releases somebody is not ready to deal with keep coming back in every album list. intake ignore adds a folder name to <root>/ignore.txt, beside staging, archive and library, and scan, the album list and a batch all skip it.

Names rather than paths, because a folder called "Various Artists - Singles" that turned out to be a mess should stay ignored whatever happens to staging in between.

The file is a plain list with comments and is meant to be hand-editable; adding and removing rewrite it sorted so it stays readable.

intake ignore with no arguments lists what is ignored, --remove takes names back off the list, and --json gives the list to a script. Ignoring never touches the folder: it stays in staging exactly as it was.