Windows 7 - Media Center- Setup Movie Library

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YAMMM works via the folder name you place each movie in... for example if you have a folder called "Movies" and inside that you create folders for each movie, the folder names are the names that may need to manipulate. For example: "Fast & Furious 5" or "Fast Five"...

Currently YAMMM doesnt support TV series, but I believe the developer Mikenho was working on it. Mikenho, any news on the updates or upcoming beta???

I have over 3TB of media and yes sometimes MC/YAMMM get slow/sluggish!

Again, Mikenho is working on it!

I have manipulated the folder names that still doesnt not put the movies together or in the correct order any other suggestions???

Can you send a screenshot of your movie folder/drive showing the folders and structure you are using?

YAMMM works best when you place each movies files into seperate folders. Example: lets say we are talking about the movie The Longest Yard. There are 2 of these movies, the original 1974 version with Burt Reynolds, and the more recent version with Adam Sandler in 2005.

In order for YAMMM to properly ID the movie and get the correct movie metadata into the correct folder, you need to name these folders... Moviename (YEAR), so in our example... The Longest Yard (1974) or The Longest Yard (2005). Once YAMMM is setup, it will actually rename either of these folders to Longest Yard, The (YEAR). If you need help configureing YAMMM, let me know.

Honestly, I find that YAMMM works 95% of the time perfectly! It automatically remanes the folders from the database @ imdb.com, adds movie art, metadata, etc. Occasionally, YAMMM will auto name a folder incorrectly, but the majority of the time its a gem! ...and there are workarounds for the occasional YAMMM hiccups! But lets get you working properly first!

i have no problem with yammm nameing films properly i just want to know how to get my films in media centre to appear together and in order iv added an attachment which shows 2 fast 2 furious as the second movie in my collection the other fast and furious films are dotted arround the other f titled movies and in the pic as well the batmans are pretty much together but not in the right order of old to new and i have all the jamesbond films too and there not in the right order either this is what i need help with if u can help it be appreciated

i know you are happy to use the media center movie display but.....
in mediabrowser you put all the movies from one boxset in one folder and when you click it you see all the five fast and furious in the right order, there are nice boxset icons and in the mediabrowser forum you can request that a certain movie box set can be made. ,you can have thae movie posters as you do in media center but also thay can be in a dvd box ,the best money i ever spent on a plug-in.
also you can have icons displaying for movie genres ,

here is a few screens of my set up, look for the bourne trillogy boxset ,



then the next is it open



and then the individual folder open.



anyhow ,you may want to have a try of it before ruling it out as its free,

hey man thanks for your imput on the media browser personaly im not keen on it because everythime ive used it i have had nothin but problems so i would prefer help on the media centre front only any suggestions

ok no prob.

YAMMM puts the movies in alphabetical order... that's it!

hey guys (specaily boobah) i have to come back with my tail between my legs lol media centre 7 with the xbox360 is just too slow looke great and plays everything thrown at it but takes 10 minutes to fully load everything and browser movement is realy slow.

So i decided to give media browser another chance as i said before i always have bother with it so if u cud help that would be great iv got a xmas get together movie night comin up soon and need help

media browser looks great and browser movement is a dream a lot faster than wm7 on the xbox360 but for some reason it keeps sayin cannot play movie or something like that when tryin through the xbox but on the pc smashin all these movies work fine on the wmc7 on the xbox so nothings changed except from using media browser is there a step to step tutorial so that i can get it to work properly and look amazing and how do you get the boxset art to work aswell that was previously mentioned in a post please help sorry for being so stubborn guys

Hi. Thanks a lot for the guide. I have followed its steps and got most of my movies tagged in WMC (Windows 7), but I still have a few issues:

1. The information downloaded for the movies are: poster image, title, year, genre (only one for each movie), and a short synopsis. There's no detailed synopsis, cast+crew, or ratings.
2. Some movies even lack year or genre.
3. A few movies lack any info. DVDID is not downloaded for these even.

Here is a sample of the contents of the DVDID of one tagged movie by yammm:


It looks quite short, isn't it? Is there any way to fix that? and also get untagged movies to download its info?


Thanks!