Yammm - Yet Another Media Meta Manager

[Digger]

As for multiple files for the same movie you could do a torrent search for AVI Joiner, it's super fast & there's no noticable join (video/audio wise). I can sen a PM if you want it, it's helped my loads

yea, well... that kinda goes back to my statement about the will power, time and more hdd's If i'm gonna tackle that so called problem or task, i'm gonna hit them all at once, which, i may find myself very busy. Have used aviJoiner in the past, i do like also.

My only problem now is that in MC, when viewing the "Movies" if there is a two part movie, it shows both parts. I guess the workaround is to either join the two, or does that create playlist for multi files do the trick of the same?

 

[mikinho]

yea, well... that kinda goes back to my statement about the will power, time and more hdd's If i'm gonna tackle that so called problem or task, i'm gonna hit them all at once, which, i may find myself very busy. Have used aviJoiner in the past, i do like also.

My only problem now is that in MC, when viewing the "Movies" if there is a two part movie, it shows both parts. I guess the workaround is to either join the two, or does that create playlist for multi files do the trick of the same?

If you enabled hiding the files when creating a playlist is does the trick on Vista. On W7 RC1 it shows the hidden files so it actually makes the matter worse. I have 2 other ideas for getting around this but I'm waiting to see if they fix this in RTM prior to making those changes.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I think it creates a playlist and treats it as a single movie

update: never mind LOL

 

[Digger]

I think it creates a playlist and treats it as a single movie

update: never mind LOL

well yes you ARE correct orbital. I just came here to post on this. As with one instance, yammm joined both files, and created just one. This was on my first try by putting two cd parts in same folder that originally were in a cd1 cd2 folder. Now every time after i did this, it now creates the [1 of 2] tag. I'm not sure if how it was done was due to how or when both parts were in the same dir, at the same time, both renamed to this.movie.cd1 and .cd2 respectively. The one merged and got the folder.jpg almost instantly, with a refresh. I'm still trying to replicate the first time scenario results. Currently i have do not the check in create playlist for multi files. Only Rename movie files and ignore nfo.

 

[Orbital Shark]

There is a batch file that can be run that reads a movie title & creates a folder of the same name & moves the movie file into it. DemonSeed provided a download for it View attachment file2folder.zip

The only drawback in your case would be any file with a CD1 or Part1 prefix will be put into it's own seperate directory

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Handy if you have all/lot of files in 1 directory like i used to

 

[mikinho]

There is a batch file that can be run that reads a movie title & creates a folder of the same name & moves the movie file into it. DemonSeed provided a download for it View attachment 13164

The only drawback in your case would be any file with a CD1 or Part1 prefix will be put into it's own seperate directory

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Handy if you have all/lot of files in 1 directory like i used to

Note sure how it comes to DemonSeed's batch file (haven't looked at it) but the below command will do it as well.

FOR %i IN (*.*) DO (IF NOT EXIST "%~ni" MD "%~ni") & (MOVE "%i" "%~ni")

 

[Digger]

Mikinho,

another question. Example, i have the movie Great Expectations, now this movie has been redone many times, tho this is the 1998 version, yammm wants to default back to 1946 version and folder.jpg. Is there a syntax with dates that will have yammm choose the correct version of a movie? another example is the new Halloween movie by rob zombie, and the new friday the 13th thats coming out in near future. Just wonder about how you have configured things to recognize what from what.

 

[mikinho]

Mikinho,

another question. Example, i have the movie Great Expectations, now this movie has been redone many times, tho this is the 1998 version, yammm wants to default back to 1946 version and folder.jpg. Is there a syntax with dates that will have yammm choose the correct version of a movie? another example is the new Halloween movie by rob zombie, and the new friday the 13th thats coming out in near future. Just wonder about how you have configured things to recognize what from what.

If you rename the folder to Great Expectations (1998) it is designed to use the date provided for matching. If it is reverting back to the 1946 let me know, I may have inadvertingly broke that when I was optimizing some regular expressions.

The way matching works for mutliple "exact" matches is:

1- Check if a year is present in the folder name, if so use that for matching first.

2- If no year is present then take the "most" popular of the two. The popular ranking is a score value given from The Movie DB.

I was thinking of adding an option to check the video runtime and compare it to the supplied runtime as a third check, thoughts?

 

[Digger]

If you rename the folder to Great Expectations (1998) it is designed to use the date provided for matching. If it is reverting back to the 1946 let me know, I may have inadvertingly broke that when I was optimizing some regular expressions.

The way matching works for mutliple "exact" matches is:

1- Check if a year is present in the folder name, if so use that for matching first.

2- If no year is present then take the "most" popular of the two. The popular ranking is a score value given from The Movie DB.

ahh i see, thanks for the clarification. So for title and "correctness" with movie as far as what version and what if part of a movie ... is recognized first by folder name (year), and by filename if part of a series or cd1,2 ect? Can you specify a little more in the heirarchy of the "resolution query" for the lookup info? if you can understand my babble there, lol.

secondly, nevermind my drunken sailor comment about the one movie that "appeared" joined. I happen to have been doing a batch of movies at the time that i thought was two seperate cd's arc'd, when the ONE was actually already "pre-joined" beforehand and i didnt notice.

I was thinking of adding an option to check the video runtime and compare it to the supplied runtime as a third check, thoughts?

I'm not so sure how accurate that would be as user independant rip settings. Tho it couldnt hurt as having another reference to re-check by.


Could you also explain the "Bin Fix" ? I just unwrapped a few old svcds, 2 and 3 cds. It recognized the one with just spaces in the title, info'd up just fine, poster as well, renamed all three. So i didnt understand quite what you meant by "bin fix" earlier

 

[mikinho]

Could you also explain the "Bin Fix" ? I just unwrapped a few old svcds, 2 and 3 cds. It recognized the one with just spaces in the title, info'd up just fine, poster as well, renamed all three. So i didnt understand quite what you meant by "bin fix" earlier

Right now it renames .bin and .cue files properly but the problem with this is that a .cue file is really a helper file. It contains the filename of the associate .bin file. The same thing happens with .dvd and .iso files. A .dvd file contains additional information on the image.

So when renames "Donnie-Darko.dvd" to "Donnie Darko (2001).dvd" and "Donnie-Darko.iso" to "Donnie Darko (2001).iso" it breaks the link between the two. For most image mounting tools this won't matter as you can mount directly from the .bin or .iso file but I'm still putting a fix in place.

 

[Orbital Shark]

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Thread description has been changed & slight update to 1st post.

 

[Digger]

Mikinho,

I just wanted to post here, and give you some credit for your work. I've tested out other MM's and other plugins lately, and well, yours for me seemed to work "out of the box" the best so far. I have seen other MM's with nice ideas and such, but they dont seem to work for me, atleast on the first go around with them. With yours i had no problems, other than my own "user" related issues. Yours works like it says, and has no problem with loading up media dirs. I have had problems just with getting a MM to recognize what i have media i loaded up on it.

If you can get that TvEp and a mature metadata grab, along with the other changes, your app is hands down the overall best. No crashes, bug-outs etc. Small in footprint as well that i like, easy on the resources.

Keep up that hard work Mikinho!!

 

[mikinho]

Thanks for the kind words Digger, I'm glad Yammm has been useful to others. I will definitely get the TvEp and other features in place soon (has to be before my wedding on the 20th )

I unfortunately won't be releasing any big updates today as I'm having some problems either my RAID Controller Card or one of the hard drives so I have some troubleshooting to do there. I also have some welding I want to get done (building a trellis)

 

[DemonSeed]

You are linked to me and I am linked to you!

We have a very simulator goal in mind, Getting everyone Else's HTPC as cool as ours!

Later
DemonSeed

 

[Digger]

Thanks for the kind words Digger, I'm glad Yammm has been useful to others. I will definitely get the TvEp and other features in place soon (has to be before my wedding on the 20th )

I unfortunately won't be releasing any big updates today as I'm having some problems either my RAID Controller Card or one of the hard drives so I have some troubleshooting to do there. I also have some welding I want to get done (building a trellis)

Congratz!

So i guess this is goodbye then, lol, just kidding. Good luck with everything. Hope you have some good weather that day

Seriously tho, i left that comment because i had in mind the fact that ALOT of ppl are going to "migrate" to 7 and the Media Center and on down the line for the future. And tho i fooled around with alot of other plugins and meta-fetchers, yours came "simple based" (if thats even a term) and easy to use and get going/understand. Not that the others were terribly difficult, i didnt feel like i was putting together some IKEA furniture before i got to actually use it, if you understand me there, lol. I think this is a very big key, especially with so called MC amateur/novice ppl like myself whom never cared to use MS anything, but now almost have to with the MC and extenders.

I was never the one for the fancy eye-candy collection, text based did me just fine. So thanks for moving me a little closer to the 21st century, hehehe. that sums it up best


One question for yammm, why is the "Library settings" greyed out? Doesnt auto-check for changes yet?

 

[mikinho]

One question for yammm, why is the "Library settings" greyed out? Doesnt auto-check for changes yet?

I haven't finished the changes for that yet....that will be published tonight. I was waiting to setup a NAS to test with. It auto-checks for changes but most NAS devices do not support file change notifications so I added a polling option in addition to monitoring for changes. I didn't want to make the settings enabled until I could test to ensure they worked properly. They do so I'll be enabling tonight

 

[Orbital Shark]

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New version available. Please see the link on the 1st post.

 

[foreversilent004]

how does the file2folder batch file handle new movies i download? do i have to run the batch file every time i add a new movie?

 

[Orbital Shark]

You should not need to, Yammm should detect the video (once copied/moved to the monitored folder) and create a directory & move the file to it. I'll run a test scenario, and see if it actually does, if not then a simple fix is to run the file2folder each time but it only takes seconds.

 

[Digger]

another explanation.... you only need the file2folder.bat if you have a folder\ with alot of movies that arent already in their own named folder as the movie. This is all that file2folder does. It will also move any other associated file into the same folder with it with the same main name, like an .nfo file, or moviename-front.jpg (as an example). This is not a database type program like yammm. Yammm is the second step in the process after you have your movies in their own movienamed folder.


edit: sorry, yaMMM ... hehe