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Hi guys, I have just made the switch from Win MC 7 to XBMC 11. My problem is that my initial movie scan with The MovieDB scraper didn't display thumbs/poster & fan art for around 20% of my movies so I decided to try another scan with IMDb. Now that scan has completed, it is only displaying 3 of 489 movies in the Video section.
Could you guys please advise how can I resolve this & get back the original data without losing the info that I already have if it's not already too late?
If I do have to start over again, what would be the most user friendly Movies & TV scaper add-ons to use?
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Use Universal scraper. It uses information from imdb, tmdb etc.
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For movies: Universal scraper
For TV: Thetvdb scraper
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Your scraper returning almost no results is indicative of not so much a scraping issue, but just a general naming problem throughout. Pick up theRenamer.com its a simple drag & drop utility that uses the IMDB and TVdb as references... and renames the files to standard with the (year) and throws it inside a folder of the same name.... just like XBMC likes. Scraping after that will be 100% because it uses the same scrapers!
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How the movies are stored? Put the movies in individual folders with folder name as moviename (year).
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2012-09-03, 16:57
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-03, 16:58 by littledread1.)
I have just tried the Universal scraper on a few individual files & it has worked so far in identifying movies that MovieDB could not, is it possible to re-scan my Movies folder without losing the data that I already have? or do I have to start over?