Media Companion Stable & Beta Release with Frodo support

The developers of Media Companion would like to advise of the latest stable release Media Companion V3.500

From the great work started by Billyad2000, Media Companion has gone open source with many developers shaping MC into the Movie and TV Show scraper we all love.

Many Thanks go to HueyHQ, AnotherPhil, StormyKnight, Heath to name a few.

Latest Beta and release notes:
New Release MC3.5663b
Download Link

To Reduce duplication of the same information. See
Revision History for current release and previous release fixes and features

Requirements: Windows OS, XP, Vista and Win 7.
Dot Net 4.0
Internet Connection:

Now scrape all the nfo's, posters and screenshots/fanart to be placed with your TV Shows and Movies.

Be in control of all the data with your video files, and confirm the images, synopsis etc are correct before XBMC MediaCentre adds them into the Library.

Media Companion Currently supports Movies and TV Shows.

Movie Features include.

• Scrape movie information from IMDB using the inbuilt scraper
• Save artwork in Dharma/Eden, Frodo or Both format
• Download movie posters from any of IMDB, TMdb, IMPA, and MPDB.
• Download movie backdrops from TMdb.
• Download movie trailers from IMDB.
• View and edit all obtained data.
• Include 'ExtraThumbs' (For skins that support this function, Movies need to be in individual folders)
• Search and browse movies using a selection of filters and searches.
• Export to HTML movie details & artwork, with customizable templates.
  

TV Show features include.

• Save artwork in Dharma/Eden, Frodo or Both format
• Automatically download information for TV Shows and episodes from TVdb.
• Download actor images from either TVdb or IMDB.
• Download and select poster for Show and individual seasons.
• Download episode screen shot.
• Create screen shot if download is not available.
• Automatically rename episodes.
• Display episodes missing from your collection.
• Display episodes in aired date order (so you can see where the specials fit in)
• Export to HTML TV details with customizable templates.
  

Also included is mc_com.exe, a command-line option to scrape your Movies and Tv Shows.


Great for putting into batch jobs, or adding to Sickbeard post-processing script.



Please post any questions here and we will endeavor to assist. If there is an issue you may be best to log the issue on codeplex Media Companion on Codeplex - Issue Tracker

Awesome!
As I wrote in the other thread for the older version, is there a way for MC3 to create a "extrafanart" folder and save multiple or all 1920x1080 fanart to it? This folder is used by some XBMC skins for displaying random fanart.

Thanks!

(2012-04-18 01:07)d3maxt Wrote:  Awesome!
As I wrote in the other thread for the older version, is there a way for MC3 to create a "extrafanart" folder and save multiple or all 1920x1080 fanart to it? This folder is used by some XBMC skins for displaying random fanart.

Thanks!

Hi d3maxt

This isn't available in this release of MC, but could be added as a new feature. I'll note this on the codeplex site for HueyHQ or StormyKnight to flag as a feature.
http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/workitem/429

Fee free to check the codeplex site and join.

Cheers

Rob

(2012-04-18 01:13)vbat99 Wrote:  ...I'll note this on the codeplex site for HueyHQ or StormyKnight to flag as a feature.
http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/workitem/429...

Changed to feature.

(2012-04-18 01:30)HueyHq Wrote:  

(2012-04-18 01:13)vbat99 Wrote:  ...I'll note this on the codeplex site for HueyHQ or StormyKnight to flag as a feature.
http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/workitem/429...

Changed to feature.

Thanks! Probably the easiest way would be on the fanart tab to right click on the desired fanart and just have another line there (in addition to save fanart as...) to save the image as extrafanart\extrafanartX.jpg inside the selected movie folder (x obviously would go up in number).

What about trailer download? Also, any plans to see basic music functionality shortly (artist info and art, artist, no album related info to keep things simple)?

(2012-04-18 03:03)steve1977 Wrote:  What about trailer download? Also, any plans to see basic music functionality shortly (artist info and art, artist, no album related info to keep things simple)?

Doesn't it already do trailer downloads?
I think we want to get the movies and TV shows right before we venture into music. But you're right, I think music will round it out as a "media" companion! Probably when we get into v3.600 territory, or may even qualify as a v4.0 release!

I know this is a long shot, but is there any possible way you may think about adding a music section to media companion, that would scrape band pics, and album art from last.fm or all music?

Thanks

(2012-04-18 08:40)guyonphone Wrote:  I know this is a long shot, but is there any possible way you may think about adding a music section to media companion, that would scrape band pics, and album art from last.fm or all music?

Thanks

(2012-04-18 03:19)HueyHq Wrote:  

(2012-04-18 03:03)steve1977 Wrote:  What about trailer download? Also, any plans to see basic music functionality shortly (artist info and art, artist, no album related info to keep things simple)?

Doesn't it already do trailer downloads?
I think we want to get the movies and TV shows right before we venture into music. But you're right, I think music will round it out as a "media" companion! Probably when we get into v3.600 territory, or may even qualify as a v4.0 release!

See reply by HueyHQ.

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.

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.