Movie Organising Software

SoundEng

SoundEng

SoundEng

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Hi all,

Just setting up my WHS 2011 atm and I was wondering what the best software to organise movies for XBMC is? I just want to get it looking like everyone elses where you just scroll through the movie covers and it all works and looks perfect :p

Now the problem I think that I will have is, when I originally ripped my movies, I ripped them to .avi for SD and .mkv for HD. I have had a look at the mymovies software but that seems to only work well with Video_TS folders :l

So is there a piece of (preferably free) software that will pull meta data off the internet for the movies I have? Like iTunes does for songs I suppose...

cheers :)
 
I've found XBMC's own internal scrapers quite effective, but you could also give Media Center Master a shot - it was originally designed with WMC/MediaBrowser in mind, but the latest versions work well with XBMC as well. You need to pay for some advanced features, but the basic metadata gathering functionality is free.

There's also the recently-revived Ember Media Manager, which I haven't tried but seems popular in the XBMC community.
 
I use Media Centre Master here and it works well in free mode, you just need to cluck the make XBMC metainfotmation option and your sorted :)
 
I'm using media centre master too. I rage every time I use it because its so slow, and there are a few annoyances (eg if you have an unknown/unscrapeable film it will prompt you for an imdb code, but it doesn't do this for television shows :mad:), but its overall a good program.
 
cheers guys, tho while googling I came across a program called media companion which is completely free and does exactly what I want it to!

Next question:

Is there a similar piece of software I can use for my music collection? One that will download album artwork and organise into folders? etc? itunes really annoys me with this and never does it properly.

cheers :)
 
I've never found any automated process to be worth a damn with album artwork, at least if you're remotely fussy about quality - in fact, iTunes is probably one of the better (or should I say "least bad") solutions.

Your best bet unfortunately is to do it by hand - set up your filing system as \album artist\album\## title , and save each album cover as "folder.jpg" in the relevant folder (hint: keep a backup copy as "cover.jpg" or whatever, as Windows has a habit of stomping all over "folder.jpg" in certain circumstances).

This is a good place to start, and if that doesn't have what you want try here. It can be a daunting task though, admittedly, if you're starting from scratch with a big music library.
 
Have you looked at the naming format for iXBRL? I think from memory you just need the year at the end in []'s and it picks it up pretty easily. If you want movies and tv shows separately then just have them in sub folders. Give it a try and I'm sure you will be surprised.
 
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