[MAC] ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X!

ViMediaManager

ViMediaManager is a media manager for Mac OS X, allowing you to gather, store, and manage information, extra art, trailers and television tunes for your movie, television and anime collections, and can be used on it’s own, or in combination with XBMC, YAMJ or Boxee.

This is my try at building a media manager for Mac OS, since the Mac platform has been seriously lacking any good apps in this department, and I felt like filling that hole, keeping in mind the Mac's passion for ease-of-use while still building a very powerful program with a really clean user interface.

Latest release: ViMediaManager v0.7α6 (Mar 31, 2013) (Anime section isn't ready yet)
Requirements: Intel Mac OS X 10.5 and an active internet connection.

Features

With ViMediaManager you can:

• Manage your movie, television and anime collections.
• Download media metadata from TheMovieDB.org, IMDb.com, TheTVDB.com, RottenTomatoes.com and AniDB.net in your language*.
• Get trailers, posters, fanart, banners, clearart, character art, disc art, logo’s, thumbnails, extra thumbs, extra fanart, trailers & theme songs for your movies and series from the aforementioned sources, Youtube.com, HD-Trailers.net, televisiontunes.com and Fanart.tv.
• Create or update NFO metadata files. NFO metadata can be edited within the application and the file is saved with the media.
• Extra art chooser for downloading and choosing images to use for posters, backdrops, etc.
• Extra media chooser for downloading trailers and television tunes.
• Shows television and anime airing status, and next episode air date information thanks to TVRage.com.
• A feature-rich episodes manager that displays all known television and anime episodes, allowing you to keep track of which episodes you've already watched, and to edit and save NFO metadata with the episode files.
• Set manager for creating and editing movie sets/collections.
• Automatically rename files and folders according to highly customisable preferences.
• Keep your collections clean and organised.
• Find more to watch with recommendations from RottenTomatoes.com, TheMovieDB.org and IMDb.com.
• …and more!
  

* Local language only available on items for which the respective database provides localised information.


Links

Official website: http://mariusth.channelwood.org/vimediamanager/

Old release: ViMediaManager v0.5.4.dmg (Sep 3, 2012)
ViMediaInfo: ViMediaInfo.zip (Just a quick GUI app for mediainfo I made to show any video file's information in a user friendly display)

• User Manual
• Changelog
• Roadmap & Ideas
• Nightly releases
• Nightly releases RSS Feed
• Nightly notes & translation tools
  

Socialize

• Facebook: ViMediaManager
• Twitter: @ViMediaManager
  

Screenshots



Frequently Asked Questions?

If you have any questions that aren't answered below, found bugs or have feature requests, feel free to make a post in this thread, or send me an email at vimediamanager@gmail.com.

How do I do this? or how do I use that?
Thanks to Jim Worrall, we now have a User Manual!

If you still have questions after reading that, don't be afraid to ask!

Some of my movies aren't showing up in the list, what's up with that?
ViMediaManager needs your files to be in a certain structure to be able to work with them:

Movies Root Folder
- - Movie Title Folder
- - - - Movie File
- - Movie Title Folder
- - - - Movie File

But don't worry, you won't have to restructure your movies by hand, just select the 'Tools' menu and choose the 'Put Movies Into Folders' option, which will automatically place all movie files it finds in the 'root' folder inside their own folders.

Does your app show studio/network logo's?
Yes it does, but you'll have to download them separately from this thread: (or similar threads)
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=100652
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99554
Once you've downloaded these, navigate to:
Create a new folder named "Studios" and put the images directly into this folder.

The app doesn't start or shows some very abnormal behavior, how can I reset the application?
You can reset the app by removing the preferences files which are located here:

For ViMediaManager v0.5.x:
For ViMediaManager v0.6.x and up:
And the application support folder can be found here: (or just the XML files directly within this folder)

Throwing away these items into the trash will reset the app to it's 'factory' settings.

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★ Tips & Tricks! ★

Search
While in a manual search dialog, you can use ID's instead of names for lookup.
You can put the IMDb ID into the search field. for example: "tt1234567"
You can prefix a Database ID with "id:" (without the quotes) for example: id:1234 (TMDB ID's for movies, TVDB ID's for TV shows)
For anime, you can prefix an anidb.net ID with "anidb:" (Again, without the quotes), note that it's still a good idea to also include the corresponding MovieDB or TVDB ID in the extra ID field.

Preview Images
While the previewing window for downloading images is open, you can use the arrow keys to quickly move to the next or previous image.

Movies inside RAR files
Movies that are RARred will not be recognized as movies!

Debug Mode
To enter "Debug Mode", hold the [ALT] key at the app's start up.
What debug mode does:

1. Disables reading NFO files to fill the lists with movie/tv/anime status.
   (This should make the app load faster and possibly crash less)
   

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Let me know what you think!

Hi

i was so HHHHHHaaaaapppyy when i saw that , finally a manager for OS X.

However , after installing and setting up the preferences, it crashes.

this is the report if it can help you :

http://pastebin.com/ddbN2tWE

Hopefully we can fix this , i am so anxious in testing this out :-)

Cheers

DrP

Well that's off to a rocky start ^^;
I'll have a look at it!

It could be that it's not reacting well to an old NFO file if you ever created one using another Media Manager?
Remove the preferences under your ~/Library/Preferences/com.vidalvanbergen.xml to try again and using a test folder with just a movie in it.

Maybe its just me but my 2 xbmc dont see the poster.jpg in filemode. Why didnt you choose folder.jpeg?

I had been thinking along the lines of a poster being called poster.jpg sounding reasonable, but I haven't been using file mode a lot, and if you refresh a movie's information using the saved NFO file, I think it shows up in file mode with the assigned poster, and I believe that the Poster.jpg is more commonly used, specifically when showing the movie info panel.

But if a folder.jpg is actually the more common method, I think i can switch to that.

Damnit...If I had seen this about five days ago I could have saved about $150 bucks! (I bought a netbook just for Ember and the Renamer and all that)

anyways, I was wondering if you could add one little bit of functionality - Would it be possible for it to look at your tv shows and check off which ones are missing in the seasons for you? I'm not sure how hard that would be to code but something like this would be very helpful to most/all/ok just me of us here.

I'll be checking this out tonight after class and I'll definitely be dropping you a line.

It doesn't support episodes just yet, but i'll write it up!

Ok nice! Same goes for banner.jpeg must be named folder.jpeg to show up under filemode for tv series. Maybe you can have an option to choose all off them?

Thank a bunch for this. Just downloaded and trying it out. Looks great.

A question - It seams that the metadata fetching is being done by file name. Is there a way to use folder names? They tend to be much cleaner in my case.