Media Companion Gen2 - Manage your Movies, Shows, NFO, and more (Open Source VB.NET)

(2012-03-27 21:42)HueyHq Wrote:  I have just been in to try this out. I have the exact same directory structure as you, so yours should work perfectly as well.
The first thing to check are the settings in Media Companion.
Ensure that in the TV Preferences that all the poster/fanart settings are correct - I have all 'Download' boxes checked, and the season-all.tbn set as banner (but that's just my preference).
Then in the show folder check that MC has indeed scraped a fanart.jpg, a folder.jpg, a season**.tbn for each season, and a season-all.tbn (if not 'none' in settings), and that they are all OK.
In XBMC, you may need to clean out the database. First try Clean Library... from System Settings -> Video, and if that doesn't work, you may need to start again by going into Video -> Files, then right-click your TV Show folder and select Remove Source, then re-add it.
Try those ideas out and let us know how you got on.

Thanks for that. I tried the "Clean Library" but it didn't do anything.

I can confirm:

# Media Companion has all the "download" options checked in preferences
# I can see the fanart.jpg, a folder.jpg, season**.tbn files


From a Media Companion point of view, it shows "Season 1", "Season 2" and "Season 3" each with there own posters. So I think Media Companion is correct. I just think its XBMC doing something weird.

I can't get Media Companion to create a folder.jpg even with the following setting:


What am I doing wrong?

(2012-04-02 00:28)kevdawg Wrote:  I can't get Media Companion to create a folder.jpg even with the following setting:

What am I doing wrong?

Without actually trying it, I seem to remember I'd get a 'folder.jpg' when I didn't have this selected; maybe the logic has been reversed? If you get a chance before I do, could you try it with this un-checked to see if it makes a difference? Cheers.

(2012-04-01 14:57)ff9b034cd2 Wrote:  Thanks for that. I tried the "Clean Library" but it didn't do anything.

I can confirm:

# Media Companion has all the "download" options checked in preferences
# I can see the fanart.jpg, a folder.jpg, season**.tbn files


From a Media Companion point of view, it shows "Season 1", "Season 2" and "Season 3" each with there own posters. So I think Media Companion is correct. I just think its XBMC doing something weird.

Hmm, this has me a bit stumped. What version of XBMC are you using? Is there a chance there is a residual setting in advancedsettings.xml? Maybe PM me with a zip of the files of a single show that is giving you problems (preferably with no large files!) so I can make sure everything is in order. I also assume you are using a late copy of Media Companion too!

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(2012-03-29 15:24)AntiFish Wrote:  

(2012-03-29 15:05)KeithLM Wrote:  AntiFish, I think the problem is that XBMC is not going to reread your nfo files. If I'm not mistaken, once the show is in the XBMC database, the nfo file is ignored. So updating them to say that a show has been watched will not update your library. You will have to remove the watched shows from the library and then re-add them for updates from Media Companion to show up.

I removed the source folder, cleaned the library, added the source again. Same issue- Shows watched in XMBC are marked watched, shows I've marked in Media Companion as watched still show up as unwatched.

The tag used in the NFO is <playcount>, which I assume was used in XBMC back in the XBox days! This may well have changed since, so it might be worth looking at the XBMC code and updating if required. It's a small point that's always kinda bugged me, so I will have a look into it when I get the chance.

(2012-04-02 00:42)HueyHq Wrote:  

(2012-04-02 00:28)kevdawg Wrote:  I can't get Media Companion to create a folder.jpg even with the following setting:

What am I doing wrong?

Without actually trying it, I seem to remember I'd get a 'folder.jpg' when I didn't have this selected; maybe the logic has been reversed? If you get a chance before I do, could you try it with this un-checked to see if it makes a difference? Cheers.

Tried what you mentioned. No luck. I even found the wizard that will let you force a rescrape of posters but still no luck. Any other ideas? In the meantime I will keep trying and post here if I find anything.

(2012-04-02 01:29)kevdawg Wrote:  Tried what you mentioned. No luck. I even found the wizard that will let you force a rescrape of posters but still no luck. Any other ideas? In the meantime I will keep trying and post here if I find anything.

The picture for 'folder.jpg' is just a copy of the thumbnail .tbn file with a different name. If the thumbnail is there, but folder.jpg isn't, there is something going wrong in MC.

(2012-04-02 01:39)HueyHq Wrote:  

(2012-04-02 01:29)kevdawg Wrote:  Tried what you mentioned. No luck. I even found the wizard that will let you force a rescrape of posters but still no luck. Any other ideas? In the meantime I will keep trying and post here if I find anything.

The picture for 'folder.jpg' is just a copy of the thumbnail .tbn file with a different name. If the thumbnail is there, but folder.jpg isn't, there is something going wrong in MC.

You're right. I hope it gets fixed. Mostly so that in explorer, the movies folder looks a bit prettier.

(2012-04-02 01:05)HueyHq Wrote:  

(2012-04-01 14:57)ff9b034cd2 Wrote:  Thanks for that. I tried the "Clean Library" but it didn't do anything.

I can confirm:

# Media Companion has all the "download" options checked in preferences
# I can see the fanart.jpg, a folder.jpg, season**.tbn files


From a Media Companion point of view, it shows "Season 1", "Season 2" and "Season 3" each with there own posters. So I think Media Companion is correct. I just think its XBMC doing something weird.

Hmm, this has me a bit stumped. What version of XBMC are you using? Is there a chance there is a residual setting in advancedsettings.xml? Maybe PM me with a zip of the files of a single show that is giving you problems (preferably with no large files!) so I can make sure everything is in order. I also assume you are using a late copy of Media Companion too!

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Thanks mate, PM sent.

Thanks for your help!

Hi Team,

Quick question, Is there currently support for TV shows spread across multiple drives?

i.e.
E:\Tv Programs\The Simpsons\Season 2\

X:\Tv Programs\The Simpsons\Season 3\

I have tested and assuming there isn't at this stage, unless i am missing a setting somewhere.
If there isn't support, i will add a feature request with more detail on codeplex.

Cheers
Paybac

(2012-04-02 02:17)kevdawg Wrote:  

(2012-04-02 01:39)HueyHq Wrote:  

(2012-04-02 01:29)kevdawg Wrote:  Tried what you mentioned. No luck. I even found the wizard that will let you force a rescrape of posters but still no luck. Any other ideas? In the meantime I will keep trying and post here if I find anything.

The picture for 'folder.jpg' is just a copy of the thumbnail .tbn file with a different name. If the thumbnail is there, but folder.jpg isn't, there is something going wrong in MC.

You're right. I hope it gets fixed. Mostly so that in explorer, the movies folder looks a bit prettier.

Tested with Latest version of MC, MC 3.435b, and this is working. Same ticks in boxes 'All Movies in Folders' and 'Create folder.jpg for each folder'

folder.jpg is created.

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(2012-04-06 04:39)Paybac Wrote:  Hi Team,

Quick question, Is there currently support for TV shows spread across multiple drives?

i.e.
E:\Tv Programs\The Simpsons\Season 2\

X:\Tv Programs\The Simpsons\Season 3\

I have tested and assuming there isn't at this stage, unless i am missing a setting somewhere.
If there isn't support, i will add a feature request with more detail on codeplex.

Cheers
Paybac

Hi Paybac

Currently MC does not handle split locations for TV Shows. While it will work, you will have double listing of the split Show, with each copy of the Show showing episodes in both locations