garyi Wrote:Yea I am trying very hard with Media Info Plus real hard. I finally got it to load my music, took about forty minutes, got perhaps 6 fanart back drops before it crashed again, and I just thought why? Why do this to yourself gary? Another forty minutes to load the music for what, probably another crash.
I have the movies bit sorted because lets face it, its dead easy, the icons for the tv shows was not the end of the world but I only have around 10 tv shows anyhow. The music thing I have given up on completely in order to get a library worth looking at its going to take weeks and weeks of labour, and you are right I don't have the patience.
And lets not even think about those games, probably fair to say you didn't 'purchase them' so theres a load of time on torrent sites pissing around getting the things to work etc etc. Oh the humanity!
Fair enough to you though, you had the patience.
I think the problem for you at the moment is you are starting out with a huge library.
For myself all my media is already sorted. Everytime I change my xbmc setup I just import my already sorted media and its there with no hassle.
If you start with nothing and just add a few films, a few tv shows and a few music albums it would take you minutes. If lets say each week you BOUGHT yourself a new game or a new music cd etc and ripped it it would be in your library in seconds because not a lot to do.. So you see for me updating my media is painless and takes no time at all.
To create a foundation with a LOT of media you have to put effort into it. Basically if you want good results you needto spend some times yes.
I might be able to sugest something to help you here though..
Music... I have about a tb of music on my file server and I still have not got it all into my xbmc library. Reason is I will only add probably 10-20 ablums a week when I can be bothered. I do not use MIP for my music I do it myself.
Basically all I do for my music is this..
- New band I dont have in library..
- Find fanart for that band ( google search ) grab resize etc to 1920 / 1080 and save as fanart.jpg in bands dir.
- Find poster image for band ( google search ) a smaller image and resize to 512x512
- Use Album Art Downloader to find album art for new album.. Save album art as folder.jpg in the album root.
- xbmc...update music library
it will take about 2 minutes to add an album. Yes I know initially its a pain if you have a large collection but the end results are worth it because once its done you never have to do it again.