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- harry3001 - 2010-01-28
billyad2000 Wrote:The episodeguideurl is added to tvshow.nfo files.
ie.
<episodeguideurl>http://thetvdb.com/api/(APIKEY)/series/75682/all/en.zip</episodeguideurl>
is this non-default behaviour? i cant remember seeing an option for it and my nfos come out like: http://www.mediafire.com/?zyv0nur1oj0 or http://www.mediafire.com/?y2nyyxf2xnt
also, didn't gen1 prompt you when you add a tv show without a nfo already in the folder? it was a pain to have to go through each one manually selecting tv show selector then right clicking scan for new eps...
some comments - ingeon - 2010-01-30
Awesome program.
-I ripped my own movie dvd`s and i would like to keep my filenames the same if possible.
Example: Under movie main browser "bee movie_gtv.avi shows as "Bee Movie Game (2007)" and "300_gtv.avi" as "Division 4 (1969)" etc. when scraped.
A tab/drop down name selector would be nice. To click on the IMDB/Change movie tab and go to the website every time gets rather tedious.
-Maybe even something similar for tv shows, cause i messed up and had to delete all my nfo&tbn files, and then do one show at a time, waiting for it to scrape before moving to the next. Ends up being an extremely long process.
I used http://www.epnamer.com http://www.tvrenamer.com before Media Companion,thinking since it gets the names from tvdb etc. it might hopefully speed up the matching/scraping selection process, but it currently doesn`t work that way.
Some shows do not scrape right. Example is Naruto "http://thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=78857&lid=7" i believe it could be due to tvdb having Aired Order&DVD Order&Absolute Order.
-A multi-selection lock/unlock status function would be handy when 'search for new episodes' is used for all shows, or maybe a tvshow batch scraper wizard. It would be nice to do the movie&tv show selector and once a person thinks the names look right/good, scrape them all at once.
-XBMC exports the actors to 'tvshow\.actors' It would be nice if MC has the option. I actually think XBMC should have a option to import actors (manually set actor folder), cause it would reduce actor copies.
-I also support the idea for a linux version.
command line option - goonie - 2010-01-31
billyad2000 Wrote:There is a basic command line functionality available for movies:
"\media companion.exe sq"
Tried running media companion with the sq at the end and it does not recognize the external command. Something I'm missing?
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Companion\media companion.exe sq"
- bugoy8 - 2010-02-02
Great job on this tool.
Question for TV shows. After initial install, I found all my show folders locked. When I click on "Search for new Episodes", get a message stating that the dirs or folders are locked.
I've been doing the following for every show:
- Unlock folder
- Search TV Show Selector
- Scrape
- Right click on the show -> Search for New Episodes
Then when I run a succeeding update via the "Search for new Episodes" button, changes will only be applied to the unlocked folders.
Does this sound right?
For the first update after install, cant I mass update?
- therain93 - 2010-02-04
Bengualas Wrote:It would be great to add support for movie sets. Everytime I edit a movie nfo file, I lost the set tag...
Great app!
Another request for this feature...the program has come a long way from 3.098. Keep up the great work!
- billyad2000 - 2010-02-05
therain93 Wrote:Another request for this feature...the program has come a long way from 3.098. Keep up the great work!
Build 3.198 added support for sets.
I've updated the first post to link to this build.
The best way to stay up-to-date with what is happening with Media Companion is to check the forum, the link is in my sig.
- riccardoroma - 2010-02-05
one question. I've downloaded this great software. Now i've organized my tv series very well. Can i connetc my drive trough xbmc ? or xbmc ovverride my catalogue ?
Sort by Certification - Cheekyboy - 2010-02-05
I'd just like to say how great this app is, its proving to be a godsend. Any chance of a small featurette please. Can I have a filter by movie certification, it would be great to work out what ones are kid suitable.
Thanks again for the great work
- BLKMGK - 2010-02-05
I'd like to be able to enter paths for it to scan manually. Using the included "browser" it doesn't find either NAS on my network but I can enter paths to directories in the XML config file and it sees them. However for TV shows I cannot get it to start at a top level and parse down by modifying the config, the parsing is apparently done in your settings dialog which doesn't work since it insists on using the browser. If you could fix this and allow for manually input paths I'd appreciate it otherwise the TV functionality is useless to me.
Thanks!
- billyad2000 - 2010-02-06
riccardoroma Wrote:one question. I've downloaded this great software. Now i've organized my tv series very well. Can i connetc my drive trough xbmc ? or xbmc ovverride my catalogue ?
As long as you have given XBMC permision to access the drive then you can connect it to your drive.
As long as media has the nfo files, XBMC will scrape from them.
- billyad2000 - 2010-02-06
Cheekyboy Wrote:I'd just like to say how great this app is, its proving to be a godsend. Any chance of a small featurette please. Can I have a filter by movie certification, it would be great to work out what ones are kid suitable.
Thanks again for the great work
I considered this, I myself would find it useful. The problem is that there are simply too many standards. MC allows you to scrape certs from more than 30 countries, all of which have different standards.
There is a possibility of using a combobox type system which simply adds every different rating in a users collection, which would work ok if someones collection only had for example UK or US certs. Unfortunately not all movies return certs even for the UK and US and I have a feeling that most people would have a rather large list.
- billyad2000 - 2010-02-06
BLKMGK Wrote:I'd like to be able to enter paths for it to scan manually. Using the included "browser" it doesn't find either NAS on my network but I can enter paths to directories in the XML config file and it sees them. However for TV shows I cannot get it to start at a top level and parse down by modifying the config, the parsing is apparently done in your settings dialog which doesn't work since it insists on using the browser. If you could fix this and allow for manually input paths I'd appreciate it otherwise the TV functionality is useless to me.
Thanks!
http://billyad2000.darkbb.com/feature-requests-f4/ability-to-type-path-name-please-t972.htm
- steve1977 - 2010-02-06
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- Cheekyboy - 2010-02-07
billyad2000 Wrote:I considered this, I myself would find it useful. The problem is that there are simply too many standards. MC allows you to scrape certs from more than 30 countries, all of which have different standards.
There is a possibility of using a combobox type system which simply adds every different rating in a users collection, which would work ok if someones collection only had for example UK or US certs. Unfortunately not all movies return certs even for the UK and US and I have a feeling that most people would have a rather large list.
Yea I understand the problem, oh for some consistency eh? Maybe just a sort by cert field then please. That would at least group similar ones together so I could browse/edit them. Another useful one would be to sort by folder if possible please as I put all the kids films in their own folder once identified.
It really is a crackin program, I've nearly finished my TV series collection too. One useful extra in that dept would be the ability to identify a particular episode via the inbuilt browser and then scrape the details, with or without the episode number. That would be very useful when dealing with specials that have been artificially assigned episode numbers to keep them in cronological order (only fools and horses for instance) as currently I hade to find the "special number" rename the file, scrape, rename the files back, and then edit the xml to reset the episode number and season. I'm sure purists might argue its not good practice but I'm sure I'm not the only one to do it
Thanks for all your hard work
Adding new Episodes? - DaGnome - 2010-02-08
Love the program, it's probably the most efficient way I've found to add my TV show collection... however maybe I'm just missing something but I can't seem to figure out how to add a NEW Episode.
I would assume that I should only need to drop the new episode in the proper folder, named appropriately, and then click the "Scan For new Episodes" button.
It looks like it's trying to find them but never does.
The only 'fool proof' way I've been able to manage to get it to pick up new episodes is to remove the folder, Exit MC2, Reopen it up, Readd the folder and 'scrape new show'. Then it picks up all the old and the new.
Am I missing something? I've checked the locked feature to be sure it isn't locked, and sure enough it IS scanning the folder or appears to be.. but no indication that it found any new episodes, nor does it place them in the listing.
My first thought was that TVDB was down again, but even then I'd expect some sort of error message, and it then wouldn't work when I readd the folder either...
I'm stumped.