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Yea, thats my only recommendation...If you have say "Chuck" logo that you want to change, change it now before you load up Night otherwise it's a pain to change later
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Ok thanks. I thought it would be easy, just (manually) replace TV Shows\Chuck\logo.png with a new logo.png. But thanks, will check my logos first!
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Someone was mentioning about being a logo whore. They should look into Ember Media Manager. They just upgraded and now have a new add-on for XBMCStuff where you can auto download the Landscape, Logo and ClearArt as well as the Posters, Fanart and Info.
The EMM guys just keep on going. I'll probably send in some money to them since they are busting their butts keeping up with EVERY request that goes into them.
If you haven't checked EMM (Ember Media Manager) out yet, you really should! Just ask anyone on these forums who use it.
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I think EMM is crap, I still use MIP myself.
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I don't even get why you need a media manager, and I have about 1700 episodes from various tv-shows and about 500 movies. Why are you guys using it so I might get an idea?
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Agree with Handa. Never understood the need. Do have XBMC Web Media Manager but more for fun, to be able to see what media I have without having to sit in front of my TV.
I am not sure what the benefits are of having fanart and movie info in the same folder as the movie/tv show itself (that is what media managers like Ember do right?).
But now that Night supports TV Show logos (wich are in the root of tv shows) and extra fanart, maybe XBMC will also store all fanart and info like this in future versions.
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XBMC didn't used to handle media quite as well as it does these days. I rarely ever need nfo files for movies but more often than not I use MIP for my tv series.
The major benefit of still using a media manager is downloading fanart/thumbs/info for media and having a permanent copy locally.
If for any reason I'd need to re-scrape my 2800 movie library or 23,000 episode tv library I already have this info and don't need to re-download it or in a worst case scenario it's there incase one of the database sites is down or has become defunct.
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mcborzu
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I like EMM for movies and MIP for episodes. I perfer media managers especially for Movies:
1. Helps speed up scanning, dont have to connnect to the internet for each item
2. Spend time to setup it up perfectly once and don't have to again
3. Many of the first scrapes for Studio are unknown, I can pick the correct studio
4. Just find it more comfortable and quicker to check for errors and picking the best fanart from the computer rather than going thru each item 1 by 1 on the couch
5. extrathumbs
6. You can set things up exactly like you want, I like to search by genre but by default the genre field is way too vague with 5-7 genres I like to trim it to 1-2 genres
XBMC does a fine job but if you want things to display exactly how you want and want to control over how it ends up displaying go with a Media Manager
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