2012-06-28, 17:26
Complete noob to XMBC, please excuse my ignorance!
Situation: I am planning to move my Movies/Shows from my current PC to my new HTPC. I am planning on going 100% XMBC on the HTPC, however the current PC is WMC with Media Browser metadata. All of my movie folders have .xml and .nfo files scattered about, as well as banner.jpg and folder.jpg files for the thumbnails. I have XMBC setup on the current PC as well (for practice, I guess you could say), and have let XMBC grab it's own metadata as well.
Question 1 - When I move the folder structure and movie files to the new HTPC, will it be safe to remove all of the .jpg / .xml / .nfo files from the movie folders themselves? I am assuming yes because XMBC keeps all of it's data central in the AppData area of my Windows profile, but would rather take word from someone more experienced.
Question 2 - Is there a way to move the XMBC metadata / settings over to the new PC so I don't have to scan / fix my library a second time when it is on the new PC? The folder structure will not have the same drives - it will be going from D:\ to E:\.
Hope that makes sense!
Situation: I am planning to move my Movies/Shows from my current PC to my new HTPC. I am planning on going 100% XMBC on the HTPC, however the current PC is WMC with Media Browser metadata. All of my movie folders have .xml and .nfo files scattered about, as well as banner.jpg and folder.jpg files for the thumbnails. I have XMBC setup on the current PC as well (for practice, I guess you could say), and have let XMBC grab it's own metadata as well.
Question 1 - When I move the folder structure and movie files to the new HTPC, will it be safe to remove all of the .jpg / .xml / .nfo files from the movie folders themselves? I am assuming yes because XMBC keeps all of it's data central in the AppData area of my Windows profile, but would rather take word from someone more experienced.
Question 2 - Is there a way to move the XMBC metadata / settings over to the new PC so I don't have to scan / fix my library a second time when it is on the new PC? The folder structure will not have the same drives - it will be going from D:\ to E:\.
Hope that makes sense!