2016-03-06, 02:30
I would like to finally make some sort of order in my movies collection, which is in total chaos at the moment.
First, now I have thousands of movies scattered across a bunch of disks. Pretty much all of them have been scrapped using EMM. The problem is, that only a fraction of all the movies (mostly the latest ones) have been scraped using the current version of EMM. The rest - with various EMM versions, going back years and years ago. What I would like to do is to update/re-scrape all of them with the latest version.
Questions:
1) Does EMM support and recognize old format nfo files (created with old versions of EMM) or does it ignore them? I mean I have tons of movies which still have meta files named as movie.nfo.
2) I'm quite OK with deleting all old format nfo meta files and re-scraping the info for all old movies. Would that be the easiest solution?
3) How does EMM handle old image files? I still have loads of movies with fanart.jpg and poster.jpg, folder.jpg or even movie.tbn named files. Contrary to nfo files, I would very much like to keep the old image files, because all of them were painstakingly hand-picked. I could write a simple script to rename all images from the old to the new file naming format, eg: fanart.jpg -> filename-fanart.jpg and poster.jpg|folder.jpg|movie.tbn -> filename-poster.jpg. Would that be the easiest solution?
4) Maybe there is some other, better/easier way to do this? Once again, I want to re-scrape and update all movie nfos to the current info and file format. But at the same time, I would like to keep all old art images, as they have been manually picked.
Second, I would like to know the best and easiest way to re-scrape and update movie nfos in the future. The difference is, I would like to lock and keep the movie title and original title. I have some movies that have multiple versions, like different cuts, also I use english titles for most of the foreign movies. I would like to keep those.
Questions:
1) Is it possible to re-scrape and update all the info for the movies, but keep the titles and original titles?
2) If so, what is the best/easiest way to do that?
3) I would like to do this on a monthly basis. Is there any way to filter on last updated?
4) When does EMM update the nfo? I mean, actually write all the info to the nfo file?
Thanks in advance for any help.
First, now I have thousands of movies scattered across a bunch of disks. Pretty much all of them have been scrapped using EMM. The problem is, that only a fraction of all the movies (mostly the latest ones) have been scraped using the current version of EMM. The rest - with various EMM versions, going back years and years ago. What I would like to do is to update/re-scrape all of them with the latest version.
Questions:
1) Does EMM support and recognize old format nfo files (created with old versions of EMM) or does it ignore them? I mean I have tons of movies which still have meta files named as movie.nfo.
2) I'm quite OK with deleting all old format nfo meta files and re-scraping the info for all old movies. Would that be the easiest solution?
3) How does EMM handle old image files? I still have loads of movies with fanart.jpg and poster.jpg, folder.jpg or even movie.tbn named files. Contrary to nfo files, I would very much like to keep the old image files, because all of them were painstakingly hand-picked. I could write a simple script to rename all images from the old to the new file naming format, eg: fanart.jpg -> filename-fanart.jpg and poster.jpg|folder.jpg|movie.tbn -> filename-poster.jpg. Would that be the easiest solution?
4) Maybe there is some other, better/easier way to do this? Once again, I want to re-scrape and update all movie nfos to the current info and file format. But at the same time, I would like to keep all old art images, as they have been manually picked.
Second, I would like to know the best and easiest way to re-scrape and update movie nfos in the future. The difference is, I would like to lock and keep the movie title and original title. I have some movies that have multiple versions, like different cuts, also I use english titles for most of the foreign movies. I would like to keep those.
Questions:
1) Is it possible to re-scrape and update all the info for the movies, but keep the titles and original titles?
2) If so, what is the best/easiest way to do that?
3) I would like to do this on a monthly basis. Is there any way to filter on last updated?
4) When does EMM update the nfo? I mean, actually write all the info to the nfo file?
Thanks in advance for any help.
