MediaBrowser

[DemonSeed]

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

lol, sorry again, but that's incorrect! That is in fact the perfect way to have it. Anything inside of ( ) will always be used as the (year) anything inside of [ ] [will be ignored]

 

[BcSoceror55]

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.

 

[boohbah]

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

lol, sorry again, but that's incorrect! That is in fact the perfect way to have it. Anything inside of ( ) will always be used as the (year) anything inside of [ ] [will be ignored]

oops, i knew it was something like that, thanks for correction, typed before brain engaged!
thanks deemon

 

[boohbah]

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.

 

[BcSoceror55]

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]

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

 

[BcSoceror55]

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.

 

[BcSoceror55]

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.

 

[SledgeDG]

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

 

[Hondajt]

Couple questions.
1.) How easy does it uninstall, and how completely does it uninstall?
2.) Will it rewrite any of my media's information?
3.) Will it work on x64 or do I install to x86?

 

[DemonSeed]

Couple questions.
1.) How easy does it uninstall, and how completely does it uninstall?
2.) Will it rewrite any of my media's information?
3.) Will it work on x64 or do I install to x86?

1.) it is very easy to remove, and it does leave behind it's programdata folder with all it's settings.
2.)NO, Never!
3.)it will install on x64 OS but is x86 app

 

[Hondajt]

1.) it is very easy to remove, and it does leave behind it's programdata folder with all it's settings.
2.)NO, Never!
3.)it will install on x64 OS but is x86 app

thank you! +rep!

so it basically just makes the images for the data (album art, movie covers) bigger? Or does it retreive more data than normal? Is it just a visual thing, or is there more to it?

Sorry for the horrible wording, it's early and I'm in class, lol.

 

[DemonSeed]

In a nut shell....
MediaBrowser will take your media collections and present them in a wonderful information rich, visulay pleasing manner.

It is EXTREMELY customizable, easy to setup, hard to put down, and fun for the entire family!
sales pitch end...

lol, basically all I can say in the end is try it. Once you do, you'll be hooked just like the rest of us!

 

[BcSoceror55]

In a nut shell....
MediaBrowser will take your media collections and present them in a wonderful information rich, visulay pleasing manner.

It is EXTREMELY customizable, easy to setup, hard to put down, and fun for the entire family!
sales pitch end...

lol, basically all I can say in the end is try it. Once you do, you'll be hooked just like the rest of us!

I agree with DemonSeed. Give it a try. Its not hard to get it up and running. It does take some time when you get into fully customizing it. But I just started using it about a week or so ago and I am hooked. I was using my movies but I am glad that I made the change. Use the knowledge base on Media Browsers Main web page. There is a lot of information there. Plus everyone on here has been extremely Helpful.

 

[lionking]

Hi

I was given a script on page 104 of this forum (#1037) to get my intro into all my movie folders, but cant seem to get it to work, to be honest not really sure how to use it.

Please can someone help?

Thanks

 

[SledgeDG]

I don't use it but I took a look
so I assume you never changed it, right?
open it with notepad or just right click it and go to EDIT and change the following lines to reflect your system:

'change ("D:\test") to where your movies are located
'change "D:\trailer\trailer.mov" to the path and name of your trailer clip
'you can run this from any location, even your desktop.

Good Luck

-DG

 

[DemonSeed]

That thing is no longer valid.


Trailers are not handled in the same way anymore in MB so that script is doing something MB wont use.

 

[SledgeDG]

Yeah...THAT would've been a nice information to have

 

[lionking]

Please if anyone can help put a script together to do the trailers, it would be greaty appreciated.

Thanks

 

[zay]

I have not been on here in months, glad to see this is still going strong. Here use this. Copy everything between start and end script and paste into notepad, and save is a .bat. Make sure to set the "Save As Type" field to all files, and add .bat to the name of file eg create traler folder.bat. Edit the filter and basedir lines to suit what you want.

****************start script******************
rem this script will look for a particular file, it exist, it will create a
rem folder and move the file found to the
rem folder that was created
@echo off
set "Filter=trailer.mov"
set "BaseDir=M:\AVI Movies 1"
set "NewDir=Trailers"
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /a-d /b /s "%BaseDir%\%Filter%"') do (
mkdir "%%~dpA%NewDir%"
move "%%~fA" "%%~dpA%NewDir%"
)
************end script*****************
Congratulations Demon on making Guru status.