Media browser movie scraping

[MrSmoke]

I have my movies like so:

C:\Movies\Movie Name\Movie Name.2008.1080P.mkv

the issue is that mediabrowser looks at the year in the folder and not in the file name. Is there a way to change this? I would prefer to have it in the file name.

Also i dont really want to use metadata in the folder of the movie since i also use an astone ap300 to watch movies and would rather not have all the different files in the folder with the movie as it looks very messy.

Thanks

[PunX0r]

Stupid question, but why don't you just put the movie year in the folder name, this is the way I do it and its much neater.

[MrSmoke]

i guess i just dont like the look of it when browsing it via SMB etc. I guess i could, but renaming over 500 folders could take some time :S
That and its already in the movie name, i just dont see why it can detect (2009) in a folder but not Movie.2009.1080P.mkv in a file name. I could set it to detect year between the first and second decimal point.

In coding the program i would also think its easier. Just split the string by the decimal into an array and read the 2nd record.

[renagade]

try Ember Media Manager Revisited. should be able to scrape the movie's year from the file name instead of from a folder.

[MrSmoke]

is it possible for it to save the metadata in Mediabrowser only and not in the media folder?

[OPM881]

Originally Posted by MrSmoke

is it possible for it to save the metadata in Mediabrowser only and not in the media folder?

I am not sure, but what would the point of that be?

[MrSmoke]

so i dont have to have all the metadata in the folder with the movie

[OPM881]

Originally Posted by MrSmoke

so i dont have to have all the metadata in the folder with the movie

yea, but dont you want the metadata to be used in xbmc/mediaportal/what ever front end you use?

[renagade]

I think you will need to scrape the movies NFO from the media center front end so it stores the metadata instead of inside the movies folder.

[the_fuzz]

not sure what front end your using, but if using Win7, using a plugin within Media Browser will scape the metadata from the net and save it somewhere else

[Jobe]

i turn off meta data scaping in media browser and get it all through media center master. it supports a lot of different formats though I think all will result in metadata files in your movie directory.

[the_fuzz]

Originally Posted by Jobe

i turn off meta data scaping in media browser and get it all through media center master. it supports a lot of different formats though I think all will result in metadata files in your movie directory.

I use both as I also want my folder structure, file names etc to look neat.

However, I do believe that media browser scraping doesn't save any info in the movie directory - it caches it somewhere else and you can choose the directory?

[Jobe]

Originally Posted by the_fuzz

I use both as I also want my folder structure, file names etc to look neat.

media center master will rename files and folders. I disliked the Media Portal scraping because it was a background task and I never knew when it was running or what it was doing and could never figure out how to interact with it - ie if it downloads the wrong info for a different movie. Being a bit of a control freak Media Center Master is perfect :P

[the_fuzz]

Originally Posted by Jobe

media center master will rename files and folders. I disliked the Media Portal scraping because it was a background task and I never knew when it was running or what it was doing and could never figure out how to interact with it - ie if it downloads the wrong info for a different movie. Being a bit of a control freak Media Center Master is perfect :P

yeah, I use Media Browser in Win7 and MetaBrowser for metadata - I prefer the later over MCM as I find it's interface much much better.

[MrSmoke]

im using Win7MCE + MB. It does save the data somewhere in C:\ProgramData which is what i love. I hate having all the jpg's and xml and nfo files in the movies array on my server.

Media Centre Master saves the data in the folder with the movie which i not what i want.