joebrady Wrote:also, i see the bubbles, but the build still says 2809...

fekker Wrote:Image Magick (32bit) - http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.5.0-8-Q16-windows-dll.exe

Image Magick (64bit) - http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.5.0-8-Q16-windows-x64-static.exe

New build 2813 - fixes music display of media images and some gui tweaks
(I guess nobody was using those as it didn't display them)
http://www.mediafire.com/?mwnnua2rn4f

joebrady Wrote:if you're talking about showing the images at the bottom, yea, I noticed, just figured you hadn't gotten there yet...

I still see only one media image showing at the bottom...although all the images are downloaded.

Halibutt Wrote:I'm too lazy to browse through the entire thread, so I'll just say the program didn't work and I decided to give it another try - this time installed the latest test version. My problem with the previous version was that it ran just fine for movies, but apparently the XBMC ignored the new information and new pictures. The problem was most likely due to my XBMCs settings, no idea which one though.

An example: movie Sahara. XBMC mistakenly scanned it as some porn/documentary/whatever. I deleted all the files in the movie folder except for the movie itself, updated the info in MIP and all seemed fine - except for the fact that in XBMC nothing changed, had to change all manually (yeah, I updated the library, restarted XBMC and my computer several times before doing that - to no effect). I will check if this works now.
Cheers

fekker Wrote:Yup, that's the one.. fixed in 2813 for display.. for some reason 2812 didn't update the main gui text with the build number (odd) . 2813 does

kiboy6 Wrote:OK, so I'm just getting into XBMC and Media Info Plus. I've had a simple HTPC setup for a while, just using my phone as a remote file opener using Salling Clicker, but I've now decided to take the plunge into a proper aesthetically pleasing HTPC setup.

I'm a little confused as to the steps to take to make this as slick as possible.

I have loads of separate folders of media files - many DVDs in ISO / img format mixed together with video_TS folders. Then there are other folders with various avi content.

Out of the box XBMC unsurprisingly leaves me with a lot of imcomplete / wrong data. So question 1: Is there no way to manually edit the image and info per library item in XBMC? I guess in any case that would be more laborious than using MIP so onto my main question:

Can anyone describe a simple workflow to most easily get all my stuff a) showing up correctly and b) updating correctly as files are added in XBMC.

This is the understanding I have right now, but please correct me if I'm wrong:

1.) It seems as though folder organization (something I've never paid to much attention to in the past) is vital for smooth running of XBMC. Is that correct? So step 1 should be to organize all media folders either entirely with subfolders for each movie/show
or entirely with individual files - Folders with mixed content will be problematic right? Or can I leave them as they are and tell MIP to scan them twice, once with each method?

2.) Then run MIP on selected folders - This will put all the juicy images / info for each item together in the item's folder in a way XBMC will read, right?

3.) Open XBMC then scan each folder for relevant content - do I still select the default (ie IMDB for movies) scraper? Will XBMC automatically give priority to the info gathered by MIP over new info scraped online?

4.) Once I've done all this and it's all looking pretty, what's the best method to add new media into XBMC. Ie if I add a new movie to a folder already processed by XBMC should I run that new movie through MIP and then tell XBMC to rescan the folder? What's the easiest way to keep XBMC updated with new items in pre-existing folders?

5.) Finally for music, if I have artwork and all info already embedded in ID3 tags for my entire itunes music collection, would I still gain from running it through MIP? Would this provide me with better artist images than the predominantly black and white ones XBMC seems to be grabbing from AMG by default? And if running my "itunes music" folder through MIP, do I need to let it copy everything to a new music folder for some reason?

Thanks so much for any advice guys I really want to make sure I understand what I'm doing before I embark on reorganizing my large media collection for XBMC.

kiboy6 Wrote:Thanks a lot for the informative reply

Couple of Qs:

1)If i still plan on using itunes sometimes as well as XBMC what are the disadvantages of modifying the existing itunes music folder as opposed to creating a new music folder? I have plenty of HD space but worry it will be more work of itunes and XBMC are using different folders.

Quote:2.) Will MIP automatically scan whatever artwork has already been DLed by itunes, or previously manually embedded into my ID3s? In other words, will MIP grab whatever artwork itunes is currently using (whether located in itunes' artwork folder or in the ID3 of the tracks themselves) and give it precedence over any newly scraped album covers?

Alternatively, I could use another tool (itsfv) to embed all the artwork into the ID3tags and let XBMC take it directly from there. But i think MIP will give me prettier pictures right? And better artist pics than the mostly black and white AMG ones?

Quote:3.) is there any way to have XBMC unobtrusively update movie folders automatically without me having to tell it to update each time?

Thanks so much - I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into your awesome tool and how lucky I am that a new version is being released as i type!

fekker Wrote:Fanart resize for xbmc are in 2807 as well for music fanart.
I'll add a compress option for fanart images, with a selectable amount of compression. I should prob add the xbmc resize for fanart to movies and shows as well.