Yammm - Yet Another Media Meta Manager

hey mikinho,
first of all as with most other people, i would love to say great program i love the idea of what you have developed, it is what people in microsoft who are getting paid should be thinking of!
secondly, i am having major troubles getting yammm started, i have installed it to the letter of your guide online, added the appropriate folders, ticked the correct boxes etc, and was wondering if you would be able to shed some light on why i am having this problem.
my movie locations are structured as so:
L:\Movies\Feature Movies
the movies are not in seperate folders, they are all .avi files and are all located in the "feature movies" parent folder.
some of the naming includes:
A Bug's Life
A Clockwork Orange
A Goofy Movie
A Mighty Heart
they do not have the year stamp on them but i was under the impression that yammm did the renaming for you.
do i need to disable the firewall or anything like that (i run no anti virus program) and what am i doing wrong!
any help would be much appreciated.
regards
nic

sorry scratch that, it seems that the movies needed to be in each individual folder.
awesome program tho
thanks heaps mikinho!

Hi Mikinho!

Great program mate, looking forward to v1.2 I had a couple of questions if you get a spare couple of minutes to answer...

I currently use my movie collection over a network like I assume a lot of people do - I store all of my movies on a Win XP machine and use a seperate Win7 machine as a media center that just looks at the movies on my main PC - my question is pretty basic, which machine do I need to install YAMMM on? I currently have it installed on the XP machine and it goes through my library & renames the folders, downloads folder images, I think it gets all of the correct metadata but when I view the folder from the windows 7 machine I only get the folder images - it can't seem to access the synopsis etc.

I assume if I had everything stored on the same windows 7 machine it would all be working perfectly but the network sitting in the middle is complicating things :)

What do I need to setup on the Windows 7 machine (or share from the xp machine) for the movie library to find the metadata?

Wow, this is a long post... lol.

mikinho said:

You can choose to go a couple different routes:

I should probably mention that the windows xp PC that holds all of my movies is turned on 24x7 but the Win7 machine is only turned on when needed - does this affect which option you'd recommend?

I assume if I installed YAMMM on the Win7 machine it wouldn't be able to do the folder renaming & poster art unless I allowed it write access to the movie collection on my XP machine (I'm pretty nervous about allowing write access to anything across a network - it's saved me from dealing with a couple of virus outbreaks over the years...), but if I install it on the XP machine it would only be able to update the DvdInfoCache folder on the Win7 machine when it happened to be turned on - unless it can detect when the share is available and update it on the fly...

Am I heading in the right direction?

it worked great mikinho, went through and edited movie names as appropriate.

1 more thing to note, there was some conflict as i already had album artworks to accompany the movies, so when viewing in WMC the program did not know to use the movie file or jpeg as they were named exactly the same.

oh and another question, i have not been able to get yammm to dl the synopsis of any of my movies, the XML file is very basic it only comes up with 3 or 4 lines, and off the top of my head i know the second line says the movie titile and the third line says something like this "YAMMMMID00023 - A23119a"

do i need to manually adjust these and enter in the synopsis or am i doing somthing wrong?

cheers

nic