2014-12-05, 00:01
This spans several pieces of software, but since Kodi is what ends up being the consumer/displayer of the data, it made the most sense to post here.
Basically I am trying to "enrich" my current metadata environment and trying to understand all the components that feed into it.
Currently I have sabnazbd+ downloading content that is queued up and then organized via either sonarr (nzbDrone) for TV series or couchpotato for movies.
In sonarr I have metadata format for Xbmc enabled with it set to include everything that sonarr can include.
In CP, likewise i have the Xbmc format enabled though with fewer than all the options selected.
I just installed OpenElec w/ Kodi on my new ChromeBox, so metadata/scraper configurations there are completely the defaults.
Some of the things I know I'm missing are things like the actor headshots that you can see in the cast info screen for a given title... as well as I would like XBMC to kind of "shuffle" through multiple fanarts for a given show over time (so I'm not always seeing the same image every time I select that show, if this can be done for covers and such that would be awesome too, but less concerned there as a cover is a cover generally).
Meanwhile, in looking into a lot of this via forum searches and such here, I'm not sure what the real "optimal" way to manage all this data is...
Should I have CP/Drone getting metadata or should I leave it completely up to Kodi?
Should I have both doing different things?
How do programs like Ember Media Manager and such complement these? Or are they pure replacements where I should turn off metadata in the CP/Drone and Kodi worlds and just manually gather metadata via Ember (and would I do this after the video has been added to the library of Kodi or before?
Just looking for some thoughts on OVERALL metadata management across multiple programs that seem to have a lot of overlapping functionality here and are thereby making it kind of difficult to asses what the most logical approach to all of this is.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts....
Basically I am trying to "enrich" my current metadata environment and trying to understand all the components that feed into it.
Currently I have sabnazbd+ downloading content that is queued up and then organized via either sonarr (nzbDrone) for TV series or couchpotato for movies.
In sonarr I have metadata format for Xbmc enabled with it set to include everything that sonarr can include.
In CP, likewise i have the Xbmc format enabled though with fewer than all the options selected.
I just installed OpenElec w/ Kodi on my new ChromeBox, so metadata/scraper configurations there are completely the defaults.
Some of the things I know I'm missing are things like the actor headshots that you can see in the cast info screen for a given title... as well as I would like XBMC to kind of "shuffle" through multiple fanarts for a given show over time (so I'm not always seeing the same image every time I select that show, if this can be done for covers and such that would be awesome too, but less concerned there as a cover is a cover generally).
Meanwhile, in looking into a lot of this via forum searches and such here, I'm not sure what the real "optimal" way to manage all this data is...
Should I have CP/Drone getting metadata or should I leave it completely up to Kodi?
Should I have both doing different things?
How do programs like Ember Media Manager and such complement these? Or are they pure replacements where I should turn off metadata in the CP/Drone and Kodi worlds and just manually gather metadata via Ember (and would I do this after the video has been added to the library of Kodi or before?
Just looking for some thoughts on OVERALL metadata management across multiple programs that seem to have a lot of overlapping functionality here and are thereby making it kind of difficult to asses what the most logical approach to all of this is.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts....