2008-08-14, 23:37
A few thoughts on movie scraping (haven't tried tv yet):
1) Why not store a list of "alternative" thumb urls in the .nfo so that to change the thumb after the initial scraping doesn't require hitting "rescrape thumbs"? Does having unrecognized xml tags in the .nfo cause problems for XBMC? If not, it would make it much faster for me to correct thumbs (some come up with an alternative language from what I use).
2) Have you ever considered incorporating a very simple file renamer? For instance, have a "movie pattern" (something like "%t (%y) %r" which translates to "track (year) runtime)") which would change the file names for movies? Even without anything complicated like trying to organize into directories (just rename files in existing directory) would be helpful. Something similar for tv shows would also be helpful. It wouldn't be useful for people who organize all of their movies into individual folders, but it would be helpful to some (including me).
3) When you scan a folder (hit the plus icon), does it search for missing thumbs and/or missing fanart even if the nfo is there?
1) Why not store a list of "alternative" thumb urls in the .nfo so that to change the thumb after the initial scraping doesn't require hitting "rescrape thumbs"? Does having unrecognized xml tags in the .nfo cause problems for XBMC? If not, it would make it much faster for me to correct thumbs (some come up with an alternative language from what I use).
2) Have you ever considered incorporating a very simple file renamer? For instance, have a "movie pattern" (something like "%t (%y) %r" which translates to "track (year) runtime)") which would change the file names for movies? Even without anything complicated like trying to organize into directories (just rename files in existing directory) would be helpful. Something similar for tv shows would also be helpful. It wouldn't be useful for people who organize all of their movies into individual folders, but it would be helpful to some (including me).
3) When you scan a folder (hit the plus icon), does it search for missing thumbs and/or missing fanart even if the nfo is there?