2012-01-06, 22:05
First off, thank you so much for reviving this amazing program. In my trials it was head and shoulders the best media manager I could find (and still is).
I have a few questions and would be very appreciative of any help anyone could offer:
1) Whats the best way to install this new version. I had an older (I believe 32bit version, there was folder created in the Programs x86 folder upon installation on my Windows7 64bit HTPC) and I have very meticulously organized almost everything. I downloaded the new file (from bodricks site), extracted it to my download folder and clicked on the embermediamanager.exe file assuming it would install over my old install. I realize that was an incorrect assumption. The new instance works great (scraped ALL my tv shows and movies) but is missing thumbnails and info on many movies. I thought EMM saved these files to their folders and then read what was there. All of the applicable files ARE in the correct folder (the movies name) they just don't seem to be reading. Also the old Ember Media Manager folder in my Programs x86 directory is loaded with the fanarts from before. I just don't want to redo all this work and I'm sure all of these issues would be taken care of if I knew just a little bit more about the best way to install the new version over the old. (Sorry this is such a n00b question).
2) This is an issue I was having with the older version of EMM that has seemed to carry over: Very inconsistent implementation of SortTitle. I use this a couple of ways and would love it to work ALL the time. I have EMM put the foreign title of a foreign film in as its title and its English title for SortTitle (ex: "Wo hu cang long" for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"). Often this works, displaying "Wo hu cang long" but sorting it in the list under "C". But it doesn't work for ALL my foreign films and NEVER works for my second implementation. This second use is an alternate to movie sets. I label all the Planet of the Apes films correctly (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, etc) but label them in SortTitle chronologically (i.e. Planet of the Apes 1, Planet of the Apes 2, etc). After I put in these changes and save it NEVER sorts the way I want. If I right click and edit movie, my SortTitle is still in there and if I look at the NFO I can see <sorttitle> populated, but it just doesn't seem to take.
3) For TV Shows, I would love to be able to have the ability to save BOTH a banner image AND a poster sized thumbnail. This is so I could switch between views in XBMC. I already have a poster sized picture in the specific TV Shows folders with the All-Seasons picture, I would just like to copy that picture inside the file and rename it to folder.jpg or whatever the alternate format that XBMC recognizes is. Sorry for not having more specific details, I'm at work and don't the programs in front of me.
Thanks again everyone and sorry for the long post.
I have a few questions and would be very appreciative of any help anyone could offer:
1) Whats the best way to install this new version. I had an older (I believe 32bit version, there was folder created in the Programs x86 folder upon installation on my Windows7 64bit HTPC) and I have very meticulously organized almost everything. I downloaded the new file (from bodricks site), extracted it to my download folder and clicked on the embermediamanager.exe file assuming it would install over my old install. I realize that was an incorrect assumption. The new instance works great (scraped ALL my tv shows and movies) but is missing thumbnails and info on many movies. I thought EMM saved these files to their folders and then read what was there. All of the applicable files ARE in the correct folder (the movies name) they just don't seem to be reading. Also the old Ember Media Manager folder in my Programs x86 directory is loaded with the fanarts from before. I just don't want to redo all this work and I'm sure all of these issues would be taken care of if I knew just a little bit more about the best way to install the new version over the old. (Sorry this is such a n00b question).
2) This is an issue I was having with the older version of EMM that has seemed to carry over: Very inconsistent implementation of SortTitle. I use this a couple of ways and would love it to work ALL the time. I have EMM put the foreign title of a foreign film in as its title and its English title for SortTitle (ex: "Wo hu cang long" for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"). Often this works, displaying "Wo hu cang long" but sorting it in the list under "C". But it doesn't work for ALL my foreign films and NEVER works for my second implementation. This second use is an alternate to movie sets. I label all the Planet of the Apes films correctly (Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, etc) but label them in SortTitle chronologically (i.e. Planet of the Apes 1, Planet of the Apes 2, etc). After I put in these changes and save it NEVER sorts the way I want. If I right click and edit movie, my SortTitle is still in there and if I look at the NFO I can see <sorttitle> populated, but it just doesn't seem to take.
3) For TV Shows, I would love to be able to have the ability to save BOTH a banner image AND a poster sized thumbnail. This is so I could switch between views in XBMC. I already have a poster sized picture in the specific TV Shows folders with the All-Seasons picture, I would just like to copy that picture inside the file and rename it to folder.jpg or whatever the alternate format that XBMC recognizes is. Sorry for not having more specific details, I'm at work and don't the programs in front of me.
Thanks again everyone and sorry for the long post.
