Online Video Metadata

[mszalay]

Hello,

I noticed the feature for Retrieving Metadata for Videos. Very Nice.

Is there a way to automate this? Either when a new item is added or something to batch update?

Thanks

Mike

[Paul]

Hello Mike,

Unfortunately there's no way to automate this, mostly because in the majority of cases the file's title is not right and needs to be entered/fixed manually.

[Bodders-11]

Mike,
a quick way to perform a Bulk Update is to consider using a 3rd-party meta data tool like 'meta<browser>' . This has a '[Process all Movies]' function. Version 1 of meta<browser> is/was free. V2 is paid for software after a trial period - http://themetabrowser.com/projects/metabrowser-v2.

(i'm not associated with the product in any way apart from being a user of V1)

Mark

[Althalus]

I personally use My Movies Collection Managment [http://www.mymovies.dk/] Quite a good free application and gets most of the meta data you need by just having the correct name :)

[mszalay]

I have used a 3rd Party application to do this before, but i like the clean database approach that Mezzmo offered with their scraping. Thanks for the suggestions.

I have just started playing with XBMC on the appple tv2 box and it retreives movie information and stores it on the atv2, it does not clutter up my directory structure with metadata files which i do like.

Mike