2008-08-21, 03:22
Hi,
I knocked up a little app to assist with 2 distinct problems:
1. A friend wanted an easy way to get his home movies into the video library.
2. My file/folder structure for music videos wouldn't work in the Library.
So I created a basic app to solve those 2 problems, and thought I'd share it in case anyone else finds a use for it. Obviously this is no XBMC Media Companion. It is just a tool to easily and quickly get video files into the Library that cannot be scraped from websites.
Select a directory, check whether you want to do a recursive search or not.
Then there's basically 2 modes:
1. Movies
This will create a basic nfo, with just the <title> (taken from filename) and the <genre> (which the user inputs in the textbox). So, you could have 'Home Movies' as the genre, and the title just as the filename. All your home movies will show up under the genre 'Home Movies' in the Library.
Similarly, you can do the same thing for documentaries, music concerts etc.
2. Music Videos
My music vids layout of:
Artist\
----->Song.avi
wouldn't work with the scraper, so I added this in. There's 2 modes.
1. Take the artist name from the parent folder.
2. Take the artist name from the filename (In this mode, artist is grabbed from the string before a dash '-', and song from after i.e. Artist - Song.avi)
Both of these modes will create basic nfo's containing only Artist and Title values.
As mentioned, this tool is intended to quickly create basic nfo's for video's that cannot be scraped. If you want additional info in the nfo, at least this will cut out some of the work. If anyone actually uses it and has an issue, or has a suggestion for something that can be added, I'll look into it. Otherwise it will stay as is, because it's fulfilled it's purpose for me.
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I knocked up a little app to assist with 2 distinct problems:
1. A friend wanted an easy way to get his home movies into the video library.
2. My file/folder structure for music videos wouldn't work in the Library.
So I created a basic app to solve those 2 problems, and thought I'd share it in case anyone else finds a use for it. Obviously this is no XBMC Media Companion. It is just a tool to easily and quickly get video files into the Library that cannot be scraped from websites.
Select a directory, check whether you want to do a recursive search or not.
Then there's basically 2 modes:
1. Movies
This will create a basic nfo, with just the <title> (taken from filename) and the <genre> (which the user inputs in the textbox). So, you could have 'Home Movies' as the genre, and the title just as the filename. All your home movies will show up under the genre 'Home Movies' in the Library.
Similarly, you can do the same thing for documentaries, music concerts etc.
2. Music Videos
My music vids layout of:
Artist\
----->Song.avi
wouldn't work with the scraper, so I added this in. There's 2 modes.
1. Take the artist name from the parent folder.
2. Take the artist name from the filename (In this mode, artist is grabbed from the string before a dash '-', and song from after i.e. Artist - Song.avi)
Both of these modes will create basic nfo's containing only Artist and Title values.
As mentioned, this tool is intended to quickly create basic nfo's for video's that cannot be scraped. If you want additional info in the nfo, at least this will cut out some of the work. If anyone actually uses it and has an issue, or has a suggestion for something that can be added, I'll look into it. Otherwise it will stay as is, because it's fulfilled it's purpose for me.
Download