by Scottes » Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:17 pm
I don't use MM for videos, but I do have a lot of movies and TV episodes running under XBMC on my HTPC. I use FileBot to correctly name TV shows - it queries TheTVDB or TVRage to get the series name, season, episode number and title. And then I pull all that stuff into Ember Media Manager to get info (plot, actors, etc), and Ember will create files that XBMC understands. These files are XML so it would be trivial* to parse the fields and pull the info in MediaMonkey.
FileBot:
http://www.filebot.net/
Ember Media Manager:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=165012
Ember might be a bit overkill, since it would effectively replace MediaMonkey for movies and TV. But if you want to keep with MM, those programs will get you all the info you will ever need, with very consistent standards for the data.
*Trivial: Parsing XML for the first time is a bit of a learning curve, though VB/.NEThas some built-in stuff that makes it pretty easy. Once you get past the XML parsing the data is very standardized, so it would be easy to put each XML field into the corresponding MediaMonkey field.
I don't use MM for videos, but I do have a lot of movies and TV episodes running under XBMC on my HTPC. I use FileBot to correctly name TV shows - it queries TheTVDB or TVRage to get the series name, season, episode number and title. And then I pull all that stuff into Ember Media Manager to get info (plot, actors, etc), and Ember will create files that XBMC understands. These files are XML so it would be trivial* to parse the fields and pull the info in MediaMonkey.
FileBot: http://www.filebot.net/
Ember Media Manager: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=165012
Ember might be a bit overkill, since it would effectively replace MediaMonkey for movies and TV. But if you want to keep with MM, those programs will get you all the info you will ever need, with very consistent standards for the data.
*Trivial: Parsing XML for the first time is a bit of a learning curve, though VB/.NEThas some built-in stuff that makes it pretty easy. Once you get past the XML parsing the data is very standardized, so it would be easy to put each XML field into the corresponding MediaMonkey field.