2012-03-04, 21:52
Munch Wrote:A sensibly reply. However not 100% of the stuff I download and watch are movies or series. Where does my other media go? Also how often does xbmc scrape it's folders? Only on start up? Because I never shut xbmc down. So will it scrape.
Anyway I am looking at other solutions. To supplement xbmc. This this the kind of stuff I am requesting to be built into xbmc so no need for 3rd party applications will be needed. I am still working on a method but I am thinking something like this.
1. RSS Downloads to download folder not scraped by xbmc.
2. Tv Rename or something similar to move and rename files to a series folder that is monitored and scraped by xbmc
3. Similar app for Movies
4. Similar app for other Files.
5. A app or individual apps to maybe scrape and generate nfo files for series movies and other types(A friend of mine has actually written this app already and it runs as a windows service. Works allot better than any other scraping app out there and is the only app to do documentary episode numbering correctly. He uses Media Browser though but intends to enhance it for xbmc too. The app also moves and renames files. So far it only works for series and documentaries but he intends adding movie support too. He might release it to the internet when it's feature complete.)
In a ideal world step 2-5 would be done by xbmc but it only does a partial job. And the interface is designed the idea of only Movies and Series and not custom points.
you are aware that the devs have stated they prefer a "core" + "addons" approach to XBMC moving forwards yes?
There is an addon that can make XBMC update the library at set intervals or see below.
1,2,3 & 4 are already covered by god knows how many different free apps, can you not just pick one or 3 to do what you want e.g. sabnzb, sickbeard, couch potato, headphones etc, etc, etc? They can even tell xbmc to update the library once the file has been renamed and moved to where it needs to go.
5. Bar the nfo file doesn't xbmc already do this for music, films, tv shows?
What other media do you need info scraped for that isn't included in these? Also is there a website & scraper combo for this missing media? If not who will pay for the domain, hosting, design / build the site, api and scraper?
Just my 2p's worth.