Yammm - Yet Another Media Meta Manager

[Orbital Shark]

Related links:
http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/7276-mediabrowser.htmlhttp://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/7276-best-video-plugin-ever.html

I have just stumbled upon this handy utility called Yammm (Yet Another Media Meta Manager)which downloads meta information and images about all sorts of movie files on your HD. It actively monitors particular folders (in my case My Videos\Movies) for new directories (i've got 'The Unborn', which it renamed automatically to 'The Unborn (2009)').

The movie information is then recognised by Media Center in the Movie Library and the poster & info is added.

Movie Library: Folder View


Movie Library: Detail View

   Information

Full details & download here - Yammm: Auto Rename, Metadata, Artwork, Playlist...

Special thanks goes to mikinho, without whom the app would not be available.

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Please visit my tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html for full instructions on how to get the best out of Yammm and Media Center.

 

[LittleGreenMan]

Awesome , looks to be exactly what I was looking for

 

[Digger]

thank you for the beacon of light

 

[Orbital Shark]

Your welcome guys. Keey an eye on the site as the creator is constantly updating

 

[mikinho]

Orbital Shark- Thanks for mentioning Yammm here. Just wanted to mention that I added the automatic image resize option to Yammm.

Thanks again for the suggestion.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Update:
The creator, mikinho had updated the software with more new features.

Significantly (for me anyway) Artwork Resize so the app automatically resizes the folder.jpg file to your specifications. This means that Media Center uses less memory when rendering the artwork.

 

[Digger]

thanks for the heads up orbital... i get to fool around with the MC for about an hour or so a day if i'm lucky Making a little progress, and i believe this lil app will help alot along the way once i get things rolling, or figure out exactly how i want to setup and run the media throughout the house. Just havent made a complete decision on which way and how to go about things. Once i do, then i have the task of taking off of physical media and putting on hdd, thats just an issue of will power , time and more hdd space, hehe.

mkinho, if you could please, i recognize a few others have requested this, i will just add my name to the list. Please, please, work on ratings editor, be it the star or parental. Parental preferrably, but both would be nice. I'm still undecided as to how to filter content throughout here with a wide range of "eyes"/age group... from disney and scooby doo to "eyes wide shut"

Certainly would greatly appreciate any work towards this. If only MS would work better with the editing of the parental ratings, this may be easier on a fella. So i've had to search around for a possible plugin to filter such content and deciding how or what is going to be the main player of media throughout the network, besides using the MC thru the extender.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Digger,

I believe that this list is what he's working on at the minute & is working towards a major release

I'm still testing the below before releasing a "major" update

1- MCML for changing artwork
2- TV series support
3- "Undo" feature via logging. The Activity and Events ta will be active when I have this done
4- Artwork overlays
5- Fix for BIN\CUE integrity
6- Real webpage fore release notes and tracking

But, you never know, parental ratings may be done too

 

[mikinho]

I've added the MPAA rating. I'll be publising it later today. I just need to add a feature so that it updates existing metadata. As it is right now it will only replace metadata created via Yammm. I did this so that people who have previously customized their metadata would not have it overwritten.

 

[Digger]

ah, Thank You!

i also had that concern about the overwriting of... since i'm experimenting with who what where i get the info from and so on... but as of now im just testing out on a test dir.

Is there possibly a way to include the use of a "." AND "-" in the title to be recognized as just a "space" in the title? Just wondering as this is how i uniformally have named 90% of digital titles. Like so this.is.the.movie - (year) would be an example of how both characters have been used. so instead of renaming thousands of files, (if only you could do this for mp3 as well), lol, you would save my legs from severe blood loss while sitting forever editing one by one.

I'm very eager awaiting this next release, thanks for the additions

 

[mikinho]

ah, Thank You!

i also had that concern about the overwriting of... since i'm experimenting with who what where i get the info from and so on... but as of now im just testing out on a test dir.

Is there possibly a way to include the use of a "." AND "-" in the title to be recognized as just a "space" in the title? Just wondering as this is how i uniformally have named 90% of digital titles. Like so this.is.the.movie - (year) would be an example of how both characters have been used. so instead of renaming thousands of files, (if only you could do this for mp3 as well), lol, you would save my legs from severe blood loss while sitting forever editing one by one.

I'm very eager awaiting this next release, thanks for the additions

Will do. Right now I strip punctuation when attempting to match titles so the - should already be ok. For the periods instead of spaces this is a common source file naming convention so I'll add that as well. When I publish the MPAA later today (at work now so can't) I'll also push that. Could you do me a favor and give me 2-3 example folder names to test against to ensure it is working properly.

 

[Digger]

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) <-- this would be one rare example of where the period may or may not make a difference in the title, after i thought about the idea, but i wouldnt think it would hurt the "integrity" of the title, not sure bout that one

Garfield-A.Tail.Of.Two.Kitties.2006
Muppets - A Christmas Carol (1992)
Toy Story 3 - Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command, The Adventure Begins
Its A Wonderful Life (1947) Dvdrip Xvid
The Neverending Story (1984)

I just now seen a wacky error that yammm done, possibly a setting i fooled with.
I have all Home alone movies, named "Home Alone 1.avi" ( i think is what it was) all 4 of them were in the Home Alone dir, but yammm seen 3 of them as as the first Home Alone (pic included). I was also fooling with MyMovies2, but i dont think it was the one that did it. I believe the difference seen for "home alone 3" not being touched was saved by the "[Divx]" tag, and disc 3 of home alone 1 is actually Home alone #4... musta been named "home alone 4" in the group of "home alone 1,2,3,4" type. I think you understand.

<Disc>
  <Name>Home Alone</Name>
  <ID>YAMMM000|00000303</ID>
</Disc>

Did i tick a setting that may have done this by chance? not sure why it did so, all 3 files are different sized, etc. Tho the "home alone 1" and "home alone 2" "home alone 3" may have been seen as 3cds of one movie, as i just noticed the change of you compliling muliple parts of 1 movie, which thank you also btw, thats IS needed also. Just ran into a lil problem with that here i think. How about recognizing by "cd1" ?

eg;
O.Brother.Where.Art.Thou.2000.DVDRIP.XViD.cd1
O.Brother.Where.Art.Thou.2000.DVDRIP.XViD.cd2


if also, given this specific example among a few others, if there could be an ommit word box, so that when it found "Xvid" in title, it would also be "blank" as for the movie info lookup for whatever database chosen to get info/synopsis etc.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Digger,

I'll leave your first question to the proffesional

As for your second point, it's the playlist option you need. It will recognise that you have 1 movie with CD1 & CD2 and Yammm will create metadata for just 1 movie. You can even have it hide the 2 CD files.

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I've not tried this option yet so I don't 100% know it exactly but i know i'm close

 

[Digger]

here is also another example, for tv eps... with the "s01ep01" type of tag, season 1 episode 1

eg;
Dexter.S01E09.HDTV.XviD

another example of two different file names for same show, all in same parent dir, not seperated into each season, tho i actually should have.

eg; Family guy folder

101 - Death Has A Shadow
family.guy.511- I Take Thee Quagmire

if moving to a named parent directory for either the show name or season # would help, i would have no problem complying with that. In some other cases with 2cd movies, each cd1 and cd2 has its own folder, instead of being in the same folder. I think this may how you have had things in mind when compiling mulitiple parts for 1 movie? or no?

another example without the . or -, just the ()

The Goonies (1985)


hope this helps

 

[Digger]

Digger,

I'll leave your first question to the proffesional

As for your second point, it's the playlist option you need. It will recognise that you have 1 movie with CD1 & CD2 and Yammm will create metadata for just 1 movie. You can even have it hide the 2 CD files.
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I've not tried this option yet so I don't 100% know it exactly but i know i'm close

yea, i figured out that this was what i did. I just want to know how it wants to "act" or looks for when compiling. this way i wouldnt run into this problem with how i have some things named, which is in rare cases, yet to go thru all titles yet

 

[mikinho]

Oribital Shark is correct. Yammm only supports a single movie per folder. When multiple video files are found per folder it will group all files that are similar in naming. Home Alone 3 wasn't touched because of the extra tag that made it different enough from the rest of the video files to not be included. I did the a custom SoundEx to check for similarilties to account for all variations of CD1, Disc1, Side A, .... but so that trailers or samples wouldn't be included.

Sorry for the inconvenience this caused, I'll try to add verbage to make it more clear.

For E.T. it will still match on that as I have it try to match first using the unedited name than using a cleaned up name.

Eidt: This is only for movies. For TV episodes it will work either way, 1 episode per folder or multiple per folder. I just haven't enabled the TV portion yet.

 

[Digger]

no worries mikinho.... just reporting back, i understand. Tis why i'm just testing out and realize the work in progress.

so it look for "same.movie.title.cd1" and any other cd2/part2/side2/Disc2 it will then recognize as the next part? this was good that i posted, since none were named with the above mentioned, just "1" "2" "4"... and strange why it recognized 4 as the third part to home alone 1

 

[mikinho]

no worries mikinho.... just reporting back, i understand. Tis why i'm just testing out and realize the work in progress.

so it look for "same.movie.title.cd1" and any other cd2/part2/side2/Disc2 it will then recognize as the next part? this was good that i posted, since none were named with the above mentioned, just "1" "2" "4"... and strange why it recognized 4 as the third part to home alone 1

Sorry I wasn't clear. It doesn't look for any particular phrase, CD, Part, ...

It just looks for filenames that are "similar" based on a SoundEx. I did this so I wouldn't have to account for the different naming conventions. So for your example Yammm found 4 video files and 2 groups.

Group 1:

Home Alone 1
Home Alone 2
Home Alone 4

Group 2:

Home Alone 3 [DivX] <== The DivX made it not part of Group 1

Yammm then renamed Group 1 as it only renames the first movie group (sorted by descending combined file size). It renamed Home Alone 4 as Home Alone 3 because it was the third file sorted by filename. Does that make sense?

 

[Orbital Shark]

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

 

[Digger]

Sorry I wasn't clear. It doesn't look for any particular phrase, CD, Part, ...

It just looks for filenames that are "similar" based on a SoundEx. I did this so I wouldn't have to account for the different naming conventions. So for your example Yammm found 4 video files and 2 groups.

Group 1:

Home Alone 1
Home Alone 2
Home Alone 4

Group 2:

Home Alone 3 [DivX] <== The DivX made it not part of Group 1

Yammm then renamed Group 1 as it only renames the first movie group (sorted by descending combined file size). It renamed Home Alone 4 as Home Alone 3 because it was the third file sorted by filename. Does that make sense?

crystal clear. That shouldnt be a problem anyhow for me. I like to have seperate folders, just in some rare cases i have thrown same series into same parent folder, that can be fixed ALOT easier than all the renaming, much easier, lol