2012-08-31, 03:17
(2012-08-30, 09:13)st graveyard Wrote:(2012-08-30, 06:09)Kokonutcreme Wrote:(2012-08-29, 22:25)chippie Wrote: I think in all honesty it depends on how big your library is, for small collections it is really not hard to just scrape with XBMC and make sure the correct movies, posters and fanart have been picked up, but for me at least (relatively large collection), I prefer to have complete control over my library and so make sure it is all ship shape prior to scraping it in to XBMC.
+1, Each movie I have is in it's own folder that contains, nfo file, thumbnail, fanart, extrafanart folder, extrathumbs folder, plus movie collection thumbnails, logo, clearart and disc image files where available. I like my movie posters to have a clean look and to be as high res as possible so I'll select them from themoviedb.org as well as the best fanart, if I don't like anything, I'll do a google search and find one that way. But I like to be in control of the look of my library so if I have to re-scrape a source, I don't have to do any manual touch ups, which is time consuming for a large library.
Hi Kokonut,
I agree with you and that is for me as well the only way to go. I do this with movies, tv shows, games ... It is more work, but it pays off. Quick question, off topic. One thing I still need to 'learn' are movie sets (collections), which I also like to save the content of on my local drive. Can you perhaps pm me and explain your dir structure and what you store for your movie sets? And which tool you use for this? Also, do you store actor images locally?
Thanks,
Grave
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