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[BcSoceror55]

Yeah you have to use the imagesbyname folder to get icons on those folders.

If you don't already have the imagesbyname folder in your MB ProgramData you'll need to create it.
You can read up on it What is the ImagesByName folder and how does it work? - Media Browser Community Tracker

Thank you yet again. That is what I wanted. Originally missed renaming the Icons to Folder.png so didn't work at first but once I caught that mistake everything seems to working great.

Now I get to work on importing all of my Movies. and tweaking anything else I came across. Thank you for all of you help. I was originally going to use my movies for cover art. But now that I have MB setup it is a lot nicer then MyMovies.

 

[blotsome]

I had the issue about loosing the image cache. Anyway, after manually going through it again, and sometimes pressing the reload button, the images all reloaded and haven't vanished since. So I'm not concerned with that anymore, but I do have a new oddity. If MB can't find cover art, it just gives the default "film strip" icon, right? So how come when I loaded the cover art in MB in the bedroom it didn't find a few covers. Then when I loaded MB in the living room (different computer, same networked media drive), it found some of those covers, but then couldn't find a few that the bedroom found. Trying to force reload the images doesn't do anything because it isn't a blank icon, but instead the film strip icon. It's very odd. For example, bedroom found cover art for "Let the Right One In (2008)", but not "Once Upon a Time in Norway (2007)", but the living room did just the opposite (didn't find the former, but found the latter).

 

[DemonSeed]

lol, you got me on that one. I have no clue.
Sounds like a cache problem, and maybe one has internet providers turned on and the other not, but I'm only guessing.

 

[SledgeDG]

Thank you yet again. That is what I wanted. Originally missed renaming the Icons to Folder.png

I believe it has to be folder.jpg
At least here folder.pngs wouldn't show up, no matter how many time I'd refresh.

-DG

 

[DemonSeed]

I believe it has to be folder.jpg
At least here folder.pngs wouldn't show up, no matter how many time I'd refresh.

Sorry DG but, No, that's not right. You can have ether folder.jpg or folder.png in a folder and MB will display ether.
By default MB will display jpg over png but even that is configurable.

 

[SledgeDG]

Thanks for the correction, demonSeed...I shall go through my config again

 

[DemonSeed]

I shall go through my config again

It's in the MediaBrowserXml.config residing in "C:\ProgramData\MediaBrowser\MediaBrowserXml.config"

And just so I was clear, You can have both/ether folder.jpg and folder.png residing in the same folder.
By default the jpg will be displayed instead of the png.
The option to change it is...

<PNGTakesPrecedence>True</PNGTakesPrecedence>

 

[BcSoceror55]

My images are a combination of .png and .jpg. Both work for me.

I am now going to attempt to change the Main background image within media center. But this raised a question. Is there a way to default the start of MCE to MB? Not to the Main strip MB Icon but actually default it to load to the main menu within MB?

Also I am going to be loading some TV series for the Wife. I love lucy to be exact. Since we got the boxset I would imagine that I could load them to my normal DVD library. But I am going to put them in my TV Library. I assume that the Meta data would be pulled the same for what I am loading right now. But I also have plans for a DVR. So is there anything particular that I should know about in order to get meta data for TV shows?

Again thanks for all the help.

 

[DemonSeed]

Is there a way to default the start of MCE to MB? Not to the Main strip MB Icon but actually default it to load to the main menu within MB?

Yes, on install you have to option to create a desktop or startmenu shortcut. You can use one of them or pin it to your taskbar and launch directly into MB.

I assume that the Meta data would be pulled the same for what I am loading right now. But I also have plans for a DVR. So is there anything particular that I should know about in order to get meta data for TV shows?

When ripping your shows I suggest doing it in a mkv or avi format and rip each episode individually. MB will pull up all the metadata for each episode as well as the seasons and series.

The recommended folder setup for MB TV Shows is like so....
"F:\TV Shows\Bones"
"F:\TV Shows\Bones\Season 1"
"F:\TV Shows\Bones\Season 1\Bones 01x01 - Pilot.avi"

You can have your episodes named in a number of formats.
Bones 01x01 - Pilot
Bones s01e01 - Pilot
Bones 1x01 - Pilot
Bones 101 - Pilot

Specials

As of Media Browser 2.2.2 (codename Thunderblade) there is support for TV Series Specials.
To use Specials support, do the following:

• Create a folder in the series folder called “Season 0”.
• On the TVDB Website, lookup the information about your series.
• Place all your specials in the “Season 0” folder.
• Number the episodes the same way they are numbered in TVDB.

Media Browser will display “Specials” as the name of the folder and pull all the metadata if using Internet Providers.
Example:
To get Specials for the TV Series “Fringe”

D:\Series\Fringe\Season 0\
0x01 - Unaired Pilot.avi
0x02 - Access All Areas.avi


On the topic of DVR, here is a awesome thread to learn all the easy tricks to have commercial free dvr's in MB http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/1962/how-to-integrate-recorded-tv-in-media-browser

 

[SledgeDG]

right click on your desktopp, go to NEW/Shortcut and put in

C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe /nostartupanimation /entrypoint:{CE32C570-4BEC-4aeb-AD1D-CF47B91DE0B2}\{FC9ABCCC-36CB-47ac-8BAB-03E8EF5F6F22}

Obviously change the drive letter to reflect your installation.

-DG

 

[BcSoceror55]

right click on your desktopp, go to NEW/Shortcut and put in

C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe /nostartupanimation /entrypoint:{CE32C570-4BEC-4aeb-AD1D-CF47B91DE0B2}\{FC9ABCCC-36CB-47ac-8BAB-03E8EF5F6F22}

Obviously change the drive letter to reflect your installation.

-DG

Thank you SledgeDG. That did exactly what I need it to do.


DemonSeed, I will have to play around with your suggestions for the TV library. I am also going to have to spend some time reading up on DVR link you posted.

Thanks for all the help. Hopefully one day I can return the favor.

 

[BcSoceror55]

So I have attached 4 screen shots. Its what I have so far. I am just getting the hang of everything. So most of this will get redone at some point in time once I get further into customizing. I have to work on configuring TV shows still. Folder is there but haven't put anything in it yet to test. I have had a few issues with the wrong cover Art being pulled. One currently still giving me a issue is The Night Before Christmas. It is coming up as a western movie for some reason. I installed YAMMM and it pulls the same Cover Art for it as well. I guess I will have to just go out and get my own and put it into the folder.

Fun part of all this is once I get this all figured out I am going to Wipe the system and redo it all since I have installed and remove a lot different items. I want to make sure everything a get a good clean install for the final project. I also now need to setup and configure my first client and working on setting up shared playstate using this article.

How to share Playstate and/or Display settings between computers - Media Browser Community Tracker

Well i am rambling at this point in time. Thats again for all the help. Just wanted to update you on my progress.

 

[DemonSeed]

I have had a few issues with the wrong cover Art being pulled. One currently still giving me a issue is The Night Before Christmas. It is coming up as a western movie for some reason. I installed YAMMM and it pulls the same Cover Art for it as well. I guess I will have to just go out and get my own and put it into the folder.

I looked at the moviedb and see why it's pulling a western.
There is not a good poster for the night before christmas, so I went and found the book cover and cleaned it up some for you. You can get it here.

As for the info, you need to edit the xml in the movie folder and change the <TMDbID> to <TMDbID>39894</TMDbID> then refresh yammm and it should pull the right info for the movie. If not you can still go to the Movie on the DB and edit in the info your self

 

[boohbah]

try media center master for meta data , i only use it for my movies data, once i sorted all my files its easy to stay on top of,
when it gives you the wrong data(rarely!) i put in a title i made up. it wont recognise it and gives you the option to enter the imdb number then you can find it manually ,failing thats if its a coverart you can find one in google images and name it folder and put it in the root folder of the movie
what i do personally is just drag the movie over to MCM manually and wait for it to start looking be sure to only have the movie name and year, not file type
MCM here
Media Center Master official website

 

[BcSoceror55]

try media center master for meta data , i only use it for my movies data, once i sorted all my files its easy to stay on top of,
when it gives you the wrong data(rarely!) i put in a title i made up. it wont recognise it and gives you the option to enter the imdb number then you can find it manually ,failing thats if its a coverart you can find one in google images and name it folder and put it in the root folder of the movie
what i do personally is just drag the movie over to MCM manually and wait for it to start looking be sure to only have the movie name and year, not file type
MCM here
Media Center Master official website

I will give MCM a try. I wanted to use a 3rd party program to store the meta data locally. Since I will be adding Multiple clients that will all access the same Movie Library, I figured having the meta data stored locally was the best route to go.

I have removed Yammm and I am installing MCM as I type.

I

looked at the moviedb and see why it's pulling a western.
There is not a good poster for the night before christmas, so I went and found the book cover and cleaned it up some for you. You can get it here.

As for the info, you need to edit the xml in the movie folder and change the <TMDbID> to <TMDbID>39894</TMDbID> then refresh yammm and it should pull the right info for the movie. If not you can still go to the Movie on the DB and edit in the info your self

I was able to use the image that you provided and that solved the problem. I also went in and changed the TMDbID as well. The only thing is now, is the main picture has changed, but the backdrop that comes up with I highlight the movie is still the old image. I know that it is MB doing this but not for sure how to change that. Should I just disable MB's meta data function for the moment? Renable it after I use MCM to get all of the Meta Data?

 

[DemonSeed]

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I know that it is MB doing this but not for sure how to change that. Should I just disable MB's meta data function for the moment? Renable it after I use MCM to get all of the Meta Data?

No, you'll need to add a backdrop.jpg to the movie folder then delete the image cache and it will be fixed.

 

[SledgeDG]

I'm glad, the shortcut worked for you
BTW: I found out that on imdb queries they check the year as well, so in difficult cases, it makes perfect sense to put the year in the title like The Lost World (1992) or The Professional (1994)

-DG

 

[boohbah]

BcSoceror55 when you drag a movie to MCM make sure it is the folder you drag ,or it can hang !

 

[DemonSeed]

I found out that on imdb queries they check the year as well, so in difficult cases, it makes perfect sense to put the year in the title like The Lost World (1992) or The Professional (1994)

-DG

Yep, exactly right!

I forgot to say that.

 

[boohbah]

I'm glad, the shortcut worked for you
BTW: I found out that on imdb queries they check the year as well, so in difficult cases, it makes perfect sense to put the year in the title like The Lost World (1992) or The Professional (1994)

-DG

also dont put the year in brackets as it can(MCM) overlook names and dates in brackets