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RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - LittleNemo512 - 2021-05-09

(2021-05-08, 18:31)bugwelle Wrote:
(2021-05-08, 16:57)LittleNemo512 Wrote: I have <thumb> tags in my NFO for episode thumbnails that got scraped but can't remove.  They also don't show up as a thumbnail on the episode.

Hi, what do you mean "Can't remove". Could you explain what you mean in a bit more detail? Smile
Yea.  For TV shows I don't want a thumbnail.  So I'll delete the NFO file for all the episodes of a season and the TVshow.nfo.  Rescrape with all artwork turned off.  Save.  And it still puts a <thumb> tag with a url to TMDB.  I don't want any episode thumbnails and want Kodi to handle thumbnail generation.  How can I stop it from adding a <thumb>"tmdb url"<thumb>?  It doesn't seem like it's possible because I've done everything I can think of unless it has something to do with how the scraping is setup without some UI option to change.


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - bugwelle - 2021-05-09

(2021-05-09, 05:10)LittleNemo512 Wrote:
(2021-05-08, 18:31)bugwelle Wrote:
(2021-05-08, 16:57)LittleNemo512 Wrote: I have <thumb> tags in my NFO for episode thumbnails that got scraped but can't remove.  They also don't show up as a thumbnail on the episode.

Hi, what do you mean "Can't remove". Could you explain what you mean in a bit more detail? Smile
Yea.  For TV shows I don't want a thumbnail.  So I'll delete the NFO file for all the episodes of a season and the TVshow.nfo.  Rescrape with all artwork turned off.  Save.  And it still puts a <thumb> tag with a url to TMDB.  I don't want any episode thumbnails and want Kodi to handle thumbnail generation.  How can I stop it from adding a <thumb>"tmdb url"<thumb>?  It doesn't seem like it's possible because I've done everything I can think of unless it has something to do with how the scraping is setup without some UI option to change.

Ah, now I get it. Indeed, the "Thumbnail" checkbox only disables the download of the thumbnail image but not the `thumbs` tags.
That is not possible at the moment.

I've opened an issue to keep track of it here: https://github.com/Komet/MediaElch/issues/1322


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - bugwelle - 2021-05-10

MediaElch v2.8.12 - Coridian

The next stable version 2.8.12 is here!

Blog Post: https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-blog/posts/mediaelch-v2.8.12/
Documentation: https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-doc/download.html

What's new?
I've fixed three bugs that made MediaElch crash. I'd like to thank Alexander Weber for helping me to find and fix these issues.
One of them existed even before v2.8.8, the other two were introduced in v2.8.8.

Furthermore, the AllMusic scraper is fixed and scrapes reviews again.

Where can I download MediaElch?
Stable releases can be downloaded from https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-doc/download.html
We have a download-mirror on https://mediaelch-downloads.ameyering.de/releases/v2.8.12/ instead of bintray. The latter has shut down.
The former is my own server. So please be patient if the server is not reachable. :-)

For Linux distributions we provide repositories for Ubuntu (.deb) and openSUSE (.rpm).
For Windows we also provide a Chocolatey package.
The repositories will take a few days to get the latest version.

Where can I get help?
For general question use Kodi forums, e.g.

- [English] https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=136333 (this thread)
- [German] https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thread/14560-MediaElch-MediaManager-for-Mac-Linux-Win/?pageNo=1

If you find a bug, please open an issue on https://github.com/Komet/MediaElch/issues

Changelog
Check out the full changelog at https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-doc/release-notes.html


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - Kallita - 2021-05-11

(2021-05-10, 09:13)bugwelle Wrote: MediaElch v2.8.12 - Coridian

The next stable version 2.8.12 is here!

Blog Post: https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-blog/posts/mediaelch-v2.8.12/
Documentation: https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-doc/download.html

What's new?
I've fixed three bugs that made MediaElch crash. I'd like to thank Alexander Weber for helping me to find and fix these issues.
One of them existed even before v2.8.8, the other two were introduced in v2.8.8.

Furthermore, the AllMusic scraper is fixed and scrapes reviews again.

Where can I download MediaElch?
Stable releases can be downloaded from https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-doc/download.html
We have a download-mirror on https://mediaelch-downloads.ameyering.de/releases/v2.8.12/ instead of bintray. The latter has shut down.
The former is my own server. So please be patient if the server is not reachable. :-)

For Linux distributions we provide repositories for Ubuntu (.deb) and openSUSE (.rpm).
For Windows we also provide a Chocolatey package.
The repositories will take a few days to get the latest version.

Where can I get help?
For general question use Kodi forums, e.g.

- [English] https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=136333 (this thread)
- [German] https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thread/14560-MediaElch-MediaManager-for-Mac-Linux-Win/?pageNo=1

If you find a bug, please open an issue on https://github.com/Komet/MediaElch/issues

Changelog
Check out the full changelog at https://mediaelch.github.io/mediaelch-doc/release-notes.html

Thanks for the update..... Will go Punish it now.
Me


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - shedrock - 2021-05-11

@bugwelle - Thanks for the hard work and the latest update. I have been meaning to mention this for quite a few years now, but always did stuff manually. Here are a list of issues that I've found using ME.

1 - When an allmusic album ID is inserted into the NFO file, KODI reject it from a scan. I then have to go into the NFO file and manually remove it.
2 - The reviews '&quot;' does not get parsed when viewing it from the KODI interface. As a matter of fact, no HTML is parsed in the LODI interface when viewing the reviews, artist inof (date, location etc...).
3 - Not all reviews are being scanned from allmusic. I manually searched the album / artist review, and it was available from allmusic.

Regards,

Shedrock


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - bugwelle - 2021-05-11

(2021-05-11, 00:28)shedrock Wrote: ...

Hi,

thank you for your feedback! Regarding 1 + 2, I have to look into it. For 2: What's inside the NFO? Is it &amp; or &amp;amp;? Smile

For 3: We load the album from MusicBrainz. If they don't have a link to AllMusic, then we don't load it from there. Undecided
AFAIK, that's also how Kodi does it.


Regards,

Andre


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - shedrock - 2021-05-11

(2021-05-11, 08:27)bugwelle Wrote: thank you for your feedback! Regarding 1 + 2, I have to look into it. For 2: What's inside the NFO? Is it &amp; or &amp;amp;? Smile
Here is a link to one of the NFO file for an album I scraped.

https://mega.nz/file/1Th3hSaT#8zoJQ2Bl18p_4kxwjsIlPU3HI0uKR57CSZIh6chQA2w

Hopefully this helps.

Regards,

Shedrock


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - bugwelle - 2021-05-11

(2021-05-11, 16:43)shedrock Wrote:
(2021-05-11, 08:27)bugwelle Wrote: thank you for your feedback! Regarding 1 + 2, I have to look into it. For 2: What's inside the NFO? Is it &amp; or &amp;amp;? Smile
Here is a link to one of the NFO file for an album I scraped.

https://mega.nz/file/1Th3hSaT#8zoJQ2Bl18p_4kxwjsIlPU3HI0uKR57CSZIh6chQA2w

Hopefully this helps.

Regards,

Shedrock

Thanks! Smile

Please give me a few days. I'll try to look into it on the weekend but can't promise anything. Smile


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - shedrock - 2021-05-11

(2021-05-11, 16:52)bugwelle Wrote: Please give me a few days. I'll try to look into it on the weekend but can't promise anything. Smile
No problem at all. Thank you very much.

Regards,

Shedrock


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - captain_FLUORESCENT - 2021-05-14

(2012-07-17, 20:24)Komet Wrote: MediaElch is a MediaManager I created to manage my collection of movies, tv shows, concerts and music. It's build to generate nfo files. Posters, thumbnails, screenshots, fanarts and actor images will be stored along movies and tv shows. Built with Qt MediaElch is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Features
  • Download information from internet databases
  • Multiple Scrapers supported
  • Edit Movies, TV Shows and Concerts/Music Videos
  • Import new movies, tv shows and concerts into your collection
  • Manage Movie Sets
  • Bulk edit genres and certifications
  • Compatible with Kodi
  • Can handle NFO (xml) files
  • Cross Platform (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows)
  • Support for images from fanart.tv
  • Integrated trailer downloader
  • Integrated TV Themes downloader
  • Compatible with “Movie Set Artwork Automator“
  • Compatible with “TV Tunes Addon“
  • Music library scraping
  • Bulk scraping of movies and tv shows
  • Custom movie and tv show scraper

More information http://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch

Downloads
Latest Release: 2.4.1 (2016-03-20)
Prebuilt binaries for OS X, Ubuntu Linux and Windows can be found at the downloads page

Changelog for older and upcoming versions can be found at http://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch/download
I noticed in the latest update of MediaElch for Mac -Catalina- (2.8.12 Coridian), that the icon of the menù are different and less intuitive; the graphic is very thin and I cannot understand the reason of this change.
Can it be reverted to previous icon sets?


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - bugwelle - 2021-05-14

(2021-05-14, 09:50)captain_FLUORESCENT Wrote:
(2012-07-17, 20:24)Komet Wrote: MediaElch is a MediaManager I created to manage my collection of movies, tv shows, concerts and music. It's build to generate nfo files. Posters, thumbnails, screenshots, fanarts and actor images will be stored along movies and tv shows. Built with Qt MediaElch is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Features
  • Download information from internet databases
  • Multiple Scrapers supported
  • Edit Movies, TV Shows and Concerts/Music Videos
  • Import new movies, tv shows and concerts into your collection
  • Manage Movie Sets
  • Bulk edit genres and certifications
  • Compatible with Kodi
  • Can handle NFO (xml) files
  • Cross Platform (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows)
  • Support for images from fanart.tv
  • Integrated trailer downloader
  • Integrated TV Themes downloader
  • Compatible with “Movie Set Artwork Automator“
  • Compatible with “TV Tunes Addon“
  • Music library scraping
  • Bulk scraping of movies and tv shows
  • Custom movie and tv show scraper

More information http://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch

Downloads
Latest Release: 2.4.1 (2016-03-20)
Prebuilt binaries for OS X, Ubuntu Linux and Windows can be found at the downloads page

Changelog for older and upcoming versions can be found at http://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch/download
I noticed in the latest update of MediaElch for Mac -Catalina- (2.8.12 Coridian), that the icon of the menù are different and less intuitive; the graphic is very thin and I cannot understand the reason of this change.
Can it be reverted to previous icon sets?

Hi,

just copy&paste from GitHub:

The reason for this change is that we now use SVG vector images. We use vector images as they make usage on High DPI display possible.

Also, the origin of those icons is unclear (neither I nor @ Komet can find them on the internet anymore) and the new ones have a better license (LGPL3).
I want to avoid third party icons that we can't find the origin of.
And because we can't find them anymore, we can't find higher resolution versions of them. So we can't prepare for better High DPI display support. Undecided

I can understand that the icons are too thin for you. I'll see how we can improve that.

Please let me know what icon(s) you find especially un-intuitive and I'll see how we can improve that.


Regards,
Andre


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - Bungee_G - 2021-05-30

Hello, @bugwelle I would like to know if it is possible to link a movie to a tv show with MediaElch ?

Thanks


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - bugwelle - 2021-05-30

(2021-05-30, 13:51)Bungee_G Wrote: Hello, @bugwelle I would like to know if it is possible to link a movie to a tv show with MediaElch ?

Thanks

At the moment that's not possible. There's an open feature request for that: https://github.com/Komet/MediaElch/issues/502

Regards,
Andre


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - Bungee_G - 2021-05-31

(2021-05-30, 14:47)bugwelle Wrote:
(2021-05-30, 13:51)Bungee_G Wrote: Hello, @bugwelle I would like to know if it is possible to link a movie to a tv show with MediaElch ?

Thanks

At the moment that's not possible. There's an open feature request for that: https://github.com/Komet/MediaElch/issues/502

Regards,
Andre
Okay thanks


RE: MediaElch - MediaManager for Mac/Linux/Win (with music library scraping) - hammersmith - 2021-06-04

when i scrape my tv shows, about half of them have a blue star to the left of the shows and half don't.
what's with the blue star?
both blue starred and non-blue starred shows work fine with kodi set to scan for local content.
how to do i resolve this?