Media Companion Stable & Beta Release with Frodo support

(2012-04-18 15:44)trpltongue Wrote:  As I mentioned in the other thread, I think MC is a great program. I've only been testing for a couple days but I've been very impressed. I'm curious about the trailer download comment. I saw the checkbox for downloading trailers, but MC didn't seem to download any for my test setup of about 30 movies (all new releases so trailers are definitely available). I'm also going to enter a "bug" in codeplex around automatically monitoring media folders and scraping when a new folder is added.

There isn't a download trailer option in MC, only a "Add movie trailer URL to nfo" option, as far as I'm aware. That does exactly what it says on the tin, it puts something similar to

Quote:<trailer>http://pdl.stream.aol.com/pdlext/aol/brightcove/us/moviefone/trailers/2011/missionimpossibleghostprotocol_10037190/missionimpossibleghostprotocol_trlr_01_720p_dl.mov</trailer>

inside the NFO file. Some skins (at least Neon for sure, it may be all skins now or baked into XBMC core) give you the option to press down inside the Movie library and it will stream that file.

(2012-04-18 08:49)vbat99 Wrote:  Music is a large undertaking, being able to pick from id3 tags or the file-name, and getting it right is not a small task.

But, It has been mentioned before, and may see its way into MC.

That's the part that I wanted to challenge. Bringing in a full music tagger with ID3 tags is so much work that I would not suggest MC to go this route. There are plenty of others out and getting this right will indeed take ages.

What I was suggesting i something much simpler only focusing on artists rather than albums or even tracks.

Thoughts?

Does Media Companion support automatic scrapping of new TV shows (not just new episodes) via command line?

For music use mediamonkey. Very powerful app. Tags, renames, organizes.

(2012-04-18 15:44)trpltongue Wrote:  As I mentioned in the other thread, I think MC is a great program. I've only been testing for a couple days but I've been very impressed. I'm curious about the trailer download comment. I saw the checkbox for downloading trailers, but MC didn't seem to download any for my test setup of about 30 movies (all new releases so trailers are definitely available). I'm also going to enter a "bug" in codeplex around automatically monitoring media folders and scraping when a new folder is added.

Yeah, I'm a bit vague about trailers because I have never used that feature - there has always been someone else around to handle those questions!
As far as I'm aware, by checking the box for trailers, I think it makes a button appear on the main page that says 'Download Trailer'(?), tucked away in the middle there somewhere. I'm afraid it is a manual thing, but it does give you precise control over what trailers you want!
There is also something about adding a link to trailers in the .nfo file, but I'm not sure if XBMC does anything with that or not.
Post back your findings 'cos I'd be interested in how it works. If it doesn't work, then I will finally need to familiarise myself with trailers!

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(2012-04-18 15:50)IAmNotAUser Wrote:  There isn't a download trailer option in MC, only a "Add movie trailer URL to nfo" option, as far as I'm aware. That does exactly what it says on the tin, it puts something similar to

Quote:<trailer>http://pdl.stream.aol.com/pdlext/aol/brightcove/us/moviefone/trailers/2011/missionimpossibleghostprotocol_10037190/missionimpossibleghostprotocol_trlr_01_720p_dl.mov</trailer>

inside the NFO file. Some skins (at least Neon for sure, it may be all skins now or baked into XBMC core) give you the option to press down inside the Movie library and it will stream that file.

@IAmNotAUser: Thanks for that, I thought that was the case somehow!

(2012-04-18 16:21)steve1977 Wrote:  That's the part that I wanted to challenge. Bringing in a full music tagger with ID3 tags is so much work that I would not suggest MC to go this route. There are plenty of others out and getting this right will indeed take ages.

What I was suggesting i something much simpler only focusing on artists rather than albums or even tracks.

Thoughts?

Personally, I would like to see music added to MC, and I would LOVE to undertake the project; it would really culminate a range of interests for me, and be a very satisfying challenge! But, in all reality, who's got the time?! MC takes a lot of our time to maintain as it is, and we are all volunteers as is the nature of open-source! And I think it would need to be a team effort to make it float.
So, I'm saying all or nothing!
BUT, I hear what your saying about something simpler than a full-blown music manager

(2012-04-18 21:46)bry- Wrote:  For music use mediamonkey. Very powerful app. Tags, renames, organizes.

I used MediaMonkey once, but it confused the hell out of me! I just wanted to do something simple quickly but only got halfway and gave up! I've tried several music managers but ended up keeping none of them. My vision of music for MC is simplicity, ie. point to media, find what info is available from 'net, allow some tweaking, with a few other options like renaming. Much like MC is at the moment!
Whaddaya reckon?! (Being aware that this is some time in the future!)

(2012-04-18 21:37)jwdempsey Wrote:  Does Media Companion support automatic scrapping of new TV shows (not just new episodes) via command line?

No, it doesn't.
I'm a bit undecided on the feasibility of this one. On the one hand, Media Companion (or more correctly, TheTVDb API) has become fairly good at selecting the correct show first time, but there is the occasion that some user correction is required.
So what I am saying is, yes, it would be possible to do so, but is it worth the aggravation of increased number of posts complaining about how mc_com doesn't select the correct show every time*! At least using the GUI allows the user to do so before scraping all the wrong episodes.


(*Answer: no!)

Good to know. Thank you.

Hey

Just a quick question regarding movie sets.

I went to the table view to batch tag all movies into sets. However those movies which did not belong to a set had -none- tagged into .nfo.
Now in my XBMC library I have 100's of movies put into a set marked -none-.

Is there a way to remove these tags without individually editing the .nfo as that will be way too laborious!

BTW, the latest release is the nuts! great program people, keep up the great great great work!

Thanks in advance for any help offered!

Oh no - this has raised it's ugly head again! I'll have a look at it in the days to come, and see if I can suggest something.
Failing that, I will put in a tool that goes over all the NFO's and fix it up
Now don't go thinking you're special! - I recently discovered that the NFO doesn't update its media info when I upgrade or change a media file, so I want to do something similar anyway!