[Ashaneil]

Cool thanks. Wife is going out of town next week so I can start ordering stuff.

BTW, in another post, Choque asked you about media manager. I want to organize my media library. Right now, it is organized as follows:

\TV_Shared\
--- \Movies\
------\English\
---------\Movie Title (xxxx)\
--------- MovieName.mkv
--------- folder.jpg --> does XBMC download / populate this?
--------- fanart.jpg --> does XBMC download / populate this?
--------- movie-trailer.avi --> does XBMC download / populate this?
------ \Spanish\
---------\Movie Title (xxxx)\
--------- MovieName.mkv
--- \Music\ (empty for now. don't know how to organize it)
--- \Music Videos\
------ Music Video 1.avi
------ Music Video 2.avi
------ Music Video 3.avi...
--- \Pictures\
------ \Vacations\
--------- \2004\
------------\Amsterdam\
--------------- \picture01.jpg
--------------- \picture21.jpg...
--- \TV Shows\
------ \Chuck\
--------- Chuck s01.e01.avi
--------- Chuck s01.e02.avi
------ \Stargate\
--------- Stargate s01e01.avi

Lot of this is a very manual process. Is there a better way of doing this or automating it? I looked at the Media Companion and Media Info Plus but I am not sure if they are still being actively developed. Any suggestions?

[eskro]

i organize movies this way:

D:\MOVIES\Star Wars - A New Hope (1977)\Star Wars - A New Hope (1977).mkv
D:\MOVIES\Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)\Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).mkv

So each movie has its own folder...
its better this way trust me...
always put the movie's year like i did...
then let the Scraper download the movie infos for you....
those info will be stored on XBMC's movie database....

So why those fanart.jpg and folder.jpg and .NFO files?
because some users, like me, like to have the movies infos stored in
their respective folders... and doing so, it free's up disk space too
since infos and images will be on stored on your media drive and not OS drive...

Theres applications that can create all those files for you automatically,,,
i use one called XBMC NFO EDiTOR...
this app can scan my library and list all the movies i have...
and then all is left to do in order to make the app create those files for me,
is to double-click on a movie thats in list, and then click SAVE!
after doing so, when i go to a movie folder, i'll see all those files in it
along of course with the movie file too!!

but that application can only handle movies for now....
for TV SHOWS theres a similar application called 'Ember Media Manager'..
this will do the same thing as i described you....
but the app looks different of course
so for TV SHOWS, organize this way, works great:

D:\TV SHOWS\X-MEN - Animated (1985)\Season 01\S01E01.episode name.mkv
--------------------------------------------------\S01E02.episode name.mkv
-------------------------------------------------- \S01E03.episode name.mkv

D:\TV SHOWS\X-MEN - Animated (1985)\Season 02\S02E01.episode name.mkv
--------------------------------------------------\S02E02.episode name.mkv
-------------------------------------------------- \S02E03.episode name.mkv

D:\TV SHOWS\X-MEN - Animated (1985)\Season 03\S03E01.episode name.mkv
--------------------------------------------------\S03E02.episode name.mkv
-------------------------------------------------- \S03E03.episode name.mkv



hope this helps

[Ashaneil]

You, my friend, are awesome. Thanks for all your help. Time to place the order. Guess I will start playing with Live to get familiar with the interface. Don't think I can wait for the parts to arrive

[eskro]

no problem!