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Scrapers are working well for me 99% of the time, however these are some titles I have that I would like to add as Movies, in my Movies Library view, that are not "official releases" and not findable by any scraper of any type anywhere. The current result is - they do not appear at all. (except in the Videos list).
How can I add a title with a custom name of my own choosing, with a generic (or custom) "box" icon, to my Movies Library?
Even for a title where there are multiple discs this is often a problem as there is only one scraper title - so no distinction.
Yes one can go to The Movie Database and add titles - but what if it's your own personal home movie for instance or something?
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igirl
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Thank you! That's exactly what I think I've been missing. I'll give it a try and hopefully resolve those few annoying titles that are unscraped.
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You can save yourself some time if your movies are all in folders as you can use
movie.nfo
movie.tbn
fanart.jpg
movie-trailer.mov
Save you having to rename them all the time it also means if you do a few at once you can rename them in bulk as they all have the same name
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I currently have a redundant set of movies on different drives - 2, 2TB drives with directories of all Video_TS folders at root level - Another "main" drive with one directory of the same titles - all M4V/H.264 at root level (no folders). My goal was to leave the VTS drives as backups/or critical viewing and only use the H.264 drive as the main daily use one.
Other than being messy and more time consuming for custom NFO files - from what I can gather putting these files at root level along side the title (and all the other titles on the disc), should work just fine?
moviename-fanart.jpg
moviename.tbn
moviename.NFO
Out of approx. 500 titles, only about 25-30 won't get scraped properly - so it's not like I have to do every one. Creating 500 folders with titles to match the 500 M4V files inside on the other hand is a lot more work. OR - only create folders for the M4Vs that need manual "scraping", and let the rest sit at root level. Then these should work - movie.nfo movie.tbn fanart.jpg
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Oh yeah, what you want to do will totally work - I've just been really anal about organising everything in sub-folders! It'll just dump the NFO's and JPGs in the big folder and name them according to your filenames...
Jim