MediaBrowser

Got MCM installed. Set it to scan my movies directory's. So far so good. It pulled the proper cover art for The Night Before Christmas and I added Shrek that it pulled that without any problems. I didn't have to clear the image cache. The Backdrop for Night Before Christmas works as well.

I think the over all fuctionality of MB is doing what I want it to do. With a little tweaking along the way this has turned out better than I had hoped for.

Thank you for all of your help. I think if it wasnt for DemonSeed's response to my first post I probably would have stayed with My movies. But I am glad that I made the switch.

glad you got everything sorted, i convinced most of my friends to use mediabrowser,
and they all feel the same, for a long time i was thinking i need to sort my movies out and ,i wish i could remember information ie pg ratings .then one day i saw a website with a book about setting up mediabrowser ,then i noticed there was a stickie here on 7f after that my collection has never looked better ,and even when i browse by year (occasionally) i have a set of oscar icons with the year on them
we just got a new laptop and ive been learning to set up network and accsess my movies, then i thought i would see if i could use mediabrowser with the network, so i installed MB on the lappy and went to configurator and set the movies file to the network and wow! it works

I am glad that it works over the network. That was one of my main reason for finding a third party program to store meta data locally. So when I hook up my clients that they will all access the same meta data information. I am going to try and redo my server today with a fresh install and get everything reconfigure and setup my 1st client. I Also want to configure playstate as well. I show a link on the knownledge base that should allow me to do that.

For the network setup did you just map a network drive or are you using the UNC?

boohbah said:

when i say network that is .. my homegroup.
then i aimed the configurator so it reads the same movie file on desktop , ive only set it up once so my knowledge depends on my recollection...unlucky!
but, i think when you click add in the config then there is a homegroup tab and then i added videos as that is where i store all my movies from the external. i have no movies on the lappy.
good luck

My thought was to avoid using homegroups. I used it a few times and it would randomly disconnect. So I was going to setup just a standard "work" location network without the use of homegroups. Once I get things setup I will post something more regarding my setup. Thanks for the help.

NOTE TO SELF: When coping a folder / directory ensure that you did infact copy it and not just creat a shortcut to it on your thumb drive.....

So that is my dumb move of the week. Dont think i can top that one this week. I was making a (well I thought I was) backup of my download directory on my Server so that I could do a fresh install but I didn't loose my notes and downloads that I had aquired for this project(My install .exe's, all my notes, icons, ect). I honestly thought I had copied the directory but it seems that Windows only created a shortcut to the downloads directory on my thumb drive. I should have caught it. GO ME!!!! Well at least with a little time not all is lost. I will just have to search for everything again.

Figured I would share so I could brighten someone else's day.

Been there...done that....burned a disc and was amazed how much room was still left.