UMM is in function alot like the other media managers out there.
Here are some key differences
- MIP was a dev team of 1, with lots of folks helping to test and providing feedback.. UMM is a team of devs, with some super talented folks working on the many facets of things
- UMM will have plugins and addon's to support a bunch of features using mono addin's
- UMM will have a UPNP server to stream the data to multiple Media Centers (that will be coming later)
- UMM will support Movies, TV Shows, Music, Home Videos, Games, Emulators, Music Videos and more.
- UMM has a server option with a remote client, allowing you to manage your media in many different ways
- UMM uses XBMC scrapers, allowing a huge amount of options for where to get the metadata and images
- UMM is cross platform and works under Windows and Linux, OSX will work correctly, but has some weird issues right now and is hard to do development without having a Mac to test it under.
- UMM supports a bunch of different media centers, including XBMC (and it's spinoff's), YAMJ, Freevo and more.
- UMM will support multiple database options, including mysql, sqlite, and others
- UMM may support MKV wrappers of media that embed the information into the mkv file, making a single file with all the metadata and images.
- UMM is modular and supports many different interfaces, from a web UI, to windows forms, native linux, and others thank's to SOAP and remoting options.
- MIP's code was a mess, UMM's is much much cleaner and more organized, I'm still guilty of some bad code
, but I'm learning and we have professional grade tools that help keep things in line.
hikaricore Wrote:I realize that UMM is the thing now and that MIP is pretty much old hat but I'm probably going to keep using it until I can't.
At this point I only have one issue. One of my series is setup in such a way that there are 2 seasons in DVD order but only 1 in aired order.
Now I've used season nfo files to force dvd ordering but mip refuses to make nfos for them.
Any simple workarounds before I make the files by hand?
It could be that the tvdb info is not coming back correctly, or the dvd info is missing. As a test, please load that show with some fake files in UMM as it'll show you what information is available from the tvdb at the episode level.
You can also use UMM to generate the files, a ui is still way easier then manually creating them. UMM doesn't support DVD order yet, but it does allow scraping by episode id (the tvdb unique id for the episode)
OR
.. just tell me the show and which you have dvd and which you have aired orders for and i'll see how it looks from the data (i'm still trying to figure out how to handle the dvd order in UMM, suggestions are more then welcome)
Here's the latest build of UMM
SVN Build: 1.0.0.574 - fixed season 0 not being loaded
I've uploaded the 574 build to Sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/universalmc/files/