2008-07-05, 09:58
To address some of posted suggestions.
1, I agree that this feature is neccessary and it will be added soon, along with the ability to remove folders.
2, A duplicate search would not be quite so easy. Unless the files names were identical. I suppose it would be possible to check other file attributes such as file size and date for possible matches.
I do sympathize with you, I have 1300 movies spread over a dozen folders on 6 hard disks and i found using this prog that I had about 20 duplicate movies. This program does make it easy to see what movies I do have so I should not have a problem with getting the same movie anymore.
At the moment MovieposterDB thumbs can be scraped very quckly. For example the movie "300" returns 132 images in about 3 seconds on my connection (10Mb)
I have considered adding partial trailer support in that existing trailers could be played from within the app. Im not sure about the automatic download for trailers for the simple reason of scraper accuracy. Downloading 100s of large files with only some being correct seems like a waste of bandwidth to me.
Could you please expand on your other problem please. I've just tested the program and with a file named "movie.trailer.avi" it is ignored by the program. No nfo file was created.
Another thing that I would like some user input on
I am thinking of creating an expanded actor details that would work as follows. A folder would be selected by the user. As Movies are added to the DB then if the actor file doesn't already exist then an nfo file would be created by the program "actor name.nfo" as well as "actor name.tbn". These would all be stored within the same folder.
This would allow the nfo file to the actor biography that could be scraped from IMDB. The actor tbn could also be stored locally as opposed to the current system which stores the thumb url (if available from IMDB) and downloads it realtime, each time the movie/actor is selected. It would also allow tbn files to be created for actors on IMDB with no thumbnail.
Let me know.
flipped cracker Wrote:found another spelling error. when hovering over the scan folders button, it has an "ans" instead of "and".The typo will be fixed in the next release
other features i'd like to see:
1) it'd be nice to be able to see what folders have already been added. i know i can open the xml file, but something in the program would be nice.
2) it'd also be nice if it could search for duplicates. i have my movies in 3 different folders (i really need to get a bigger hard drive) and there is potential to duplicate movies. i try to go through them, but i have 535 currently, and it's not easy spotting dupes.
1, I agree that this feature is neccessary and it will be added soon, along with the ability to remove folders.
2, A duplicate search would not be quite so easy. Unless the files names were identical. I suppose it would be possible to check other file attributes such as file size and date for possible matches.
I do sympathize with you, I have 1300 movies spread over a dozen folders on 6 hard disks and i found using this prog that I had about 20 duplicate movies. This program does make it easy to see what movies I do have so I should not have a problem with getting the same movie anymore.
kricker Wrote:This is one nice tool. The only thing I would like to see so far is a way to tell what size the image I am downloading is, and the ability to download more than one, so I can switch thumbnails easily later if I wanted to.I can't see any problem adding nfo as to the image resolution and size(KB), but i'm not sure how I would implement multiple image support. Media folders could end up getting very cluttered.
At the moment MovieposterDB thumbs can be scraped very quckly. For example the movie "300" returns 132 images in about 3 seconds on my connection (10Mb)
bionic1234 Wrote:Fantastic tool billyad2000 - really has the potential to help organize movie folders - thanks for sharing.
Question - spiff recently added local trailer support for XBMC scraper (putting -trailer at the end of the file before media extension), do you think that you will be adding this into your Media Companion tool?
Tried version 1.1 from your signature and it sets up two nfo files in the movie folder rather than one nfo file linking to local trailer
I have considered adding partial trailer support in that existing trailers could be played from within the app. Im not sure about the automatic download for trailers for the simple reason of scraper accuracy. Downloading 100s of large files with only some being correct seems like a waste of bandwidth to me.
Could you please expand on your other problem please. I've just tested the program and with a file named "movie.trailer.avi" it is ignored by the program. No nfo file was created.
Another thing that I would like some user input on
I am thinking of creating an expanded actor details that would work as follows. A folder would be selected by the user. As Movies are added to the DB then if the actor file doesn't already exist then an nfo file would be created by the program "actor name.nfo" as well as "actor name.tbn". These would all be stored within the same folder.
This would allow the nfo file to the actor biography that could be scraped from IMDB. The actor tbn could also be stored locally as opposed to the current system which stores the thumb url (if available from IMDB) and downloads it realtime, each time the movie/actor is selected. It would also allow tbn files to be created for actors on IMDB with no thumbnail.
Let me know.