2010-01-20, 11:00
Round 2 of the test builds are up on http://www.mediafire.com/embermm
Includes:
> Improved filters
> Improved show detection
> Support for single files with multiple episodes/seasons
> GUI and code optimizations
> All reported bugs fixed (hopefully)
> Misc tweaks and changes
Once again, please delete your database and settings file, even if you tried the last test build.
Not there yet... just trying to make sure all shows are detected and loaded correctly before moving on to editing/scraping/renaming/etc.
1> Hopefully fixed in the latest test build. If not, I added more error logging so if it does happen again we should know why (I can't reproduce this).
2> Clicking the "Update Library" button scans for both movies and tv. If you click the little arrow on the right, it will drop down a menu so you can select the exact source to update. I haven't yet added only all movies or only all tv, but I'll get to that tomorrow.
3> If the shows were all listed in a treeview, there would be no elegant/easy way to display whether each item contains the proper files (if it has a poster, fanart, nfo).
4> Not yet. Haven't gotten as far as editing yet. lol And I disabled the refresh button for tv shows because at this point it doesn't do anything.
5> Season posters are detected already and loaded to the db.... I just haven't gotten around to displaying them yet. Didn't add season fanart detection because according to the wiki, XBMC doesn't support this.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Keep in mind these are early test builds. Don't expect them to have full functionality. I'm not concerned with feature requests at this time as I'm taking things step by step... and right now I'm only on the first step: loading TV Shows. Once we make sure everything is loading correctly, we can move on.
Includes:
> Improved filters
> Improved show detection
> Support for single files with multiple episodes/seasons
> GUI and code optimizations
> All reported bugs fixed (hopefully)
> Misc tweaks and changes
Once again, please delete your database and settings file, even if you tried the last test build.
jondr13 Wrote:Also regarding tv shows, I cant right click on the show, the season or the episode to edit the info like you can on the movies. Is this something that will be added in the final release?
Not there yet... just trying to make sure all shows are detected and loaded correctly before moving on to editing/scraping/renaming/etc.
bob_loblaw Wrote:Thanks for that. I searched for "test release" which didn't return any relevant matches, but was obviously the wrong term to use.
Grabbing it now.
Edit: OK, had a quick look. A couple of comments follow.
* Couldn't get the TV source to add using the name "TV". It took a few goes but finally worked using "Television". The dialog would just vanish unless the name seemed long enough or verified.
* When clicking 'Update Library' to get the shows to appear, nothing loaded, except the first poster and fanart of the first movie in the list (I expected just TV to be updated since I was in the TV Shows tab).
* I'd love to see the Shows -> Seasons -> Episodes in a collapsible list (like in Windows Explorer) rather than mimicing the Media Info Plus way. Maybe with odd/even shading between shows or seasons to make it stand out, or bold for each TV show. Will obviously need collapse/expand all buttons. I think this way would work better but since I haven't seen it in action it's just speculation, but I think it would be an improvement. If people already store their shows in that way, why not list them like that?
* When viewing an episode's information, can I edit it manually? I clicked "refresh" to get the stream info up but can't see any way to save it.
I realise this is a test release and it's early on so maybe some of these features aren't yet implemented. In XBMC, seasons can have separate thumbs (either a folder.jpg [in the season directory] or seasonNN.tbn [in the show directory]) as well as separate fanart.
One other other thing: If you could somehow get together with the "Mediarenamer" guy (http://code.google.com/p/mediarenamer/), I would almost never need to use anything but your app for managing my media! If you could have it monitor a directory (recursively), rename and move them, scan for info then update XBMC, I would love you forever. But that is a lot to ask.
1> Hopefully fixed in the latest test build. If not, I added more error logging so if it does happen again we should know why (I can't reproduce this).
2> Clicking the "Update Library" button scans for both movies and tv. If you click the little arrow on the right, it will drop down a menu so you can select the exact source to update. I haven't yet added only all movies or only all tv, but I'll get to that tomorrow.
3> If the shows were all listed in a treeview, there would be no elegant/easy way to display whether each item contains the proper files (if it has a poster, fanart, nfo).
4> Not yet. Haven't gotten as far as editing yet. lol And I disabled the refresh button for tv shows because at this point it doesn't do anything.
5> Season posters are detected already and loaded to the db.... I just haven't gotten around to displaying them yet. Didn't add season fanart detection because according to the wiki, XBMC doesn't support this.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Keep in mind these are early test builds. Don't expect them to have full functionality. I'm not concerned with feature requests at this time as I'm taking things step by step... and right now I'm only on the first step: loading TV Shows. Once we make sure everything is loading correctly, we can move on.