Hi everyone. Does anyone know of a guide or software to convert jpeg files into CBZ format? I download a lot of manga but most of the time the files are packed in a zip and they are all jpegs of each page of the manga. This makes it a bit of a pain to read so I would rather organize them and just make the whole volume into one CBZ to read comfortably. Thank you to all who take the time to comment.

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    You can just change .zip to .cbz either manually via a filebrowser or a script (cbz are essentially just zips).

    I think .cbz can only contain images, no subfolders, so maybe you need to make a .cbz per chapter or do a lot of remaming to be able to put them in one directory.

    Cbr is the same but for .rar files (which are not open source?).

    I think there is a program for adding metadata to manga like Comictagger (which does not work too well for manga) but I can’t remember the name …

    • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Looks like I was wrong about the subfolders! Just tested it and it looks like you can just zip a bunch of folders called chapter 1, 2, 3, etc, rename to .cbz and at least Komga and YACreader seem to just go through all of them when reading. Very cool!

  • nofunberg@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    It’s just a zip file with a different file extension. Zip a stack of jpegs with filenames that will list them in reading order when sorted alphabetically and then change the extension.

  • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    that’s all CBZ is – a set of image files zipped up and the file extension changed to *.cbz (CBR is the same thing but RAR compressed and *.cbr file extension)

  • FrozenTrout@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Sure! So, “.cbz” and “.cbr” files are literally just a folder of images in zip or rar files respectively, with the file extension changed so they will open in a comic reading app instead of being unzipped/unrared when you click on them. So as long as the filenames of the zipped images are in the correct alphabetical order, all you have to do is change the “.zip” at the end of the filename to “.cbz” (or “.rar” to “.cbr”).