Author Archives: Todd Hill

Have been working on ELS 4.0 since September 2021. Version 4 is a major leap that includes a purpose-built desktop application, the ELS Navigator, on top of the existing ELS back-up tool along with many new capabilities such as tools … Continue reading →

Entertainment Library Synchronizer (ELS) is a back-up tool for home media systems. ELS views media spanning multiple hard drives the same way modern media systems do – on a logical library basis, such as movies or TV shows. ELS combines … Continue reading →

The Corionis Service Manager (CSM) is a small Windows tray application that monitors and manages a list of user-selected Windows services. The selected services may be started, stopped, the start-up type changed, etc. Most people who regularly monitor and manage … Continue reading →

ELS-Plex-Generator is a Plex-specific add-on tool for Entertainment Library Synchronizer (ELS), available at https://github.com/Corionis/ELS, that generates the publisher library JSON file required for ELS. ELS-Plex-Generator queries a Plex Media Server (PMS) directly using the PMS REST interface, typically on port :32400, … Continue reading →

Stomp is a command-line utility that simply truncates, or clears, the contents of a file. Originally written for use with a log file monitoring tool to clear log files during software development. Stomp ignores most exceptions. If a file is … Continue reading →

The Corionis Service Manager (CSM) is a small Windows utility tray application that monitors and manages a list of user-selected Windows services. The selected services are monitored and may be easily started, stopped, etc. Most people who need to monitor … Continue reading →

“setgo” is a command-line utility that allows the user to change the current directory using a short easy-to-remember name. Each “go” command is prefixed with a dash “-” so all “go” commands are unique and do not conflict with existing … Continue reading →

“setgo” is a command-line utility that allows the user to change the current directory using a short easy-to-remember name. Each “go” command is prefixed with a dash “-” so all “go” commands are unique and do not conflict with existing … Continue reading →