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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 583590" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: Adult movie scraper (details+covers) -- v1.0.2MovingPictures is database based, MyVideos is folder based.I was in the same situation as you, preferring my own folder system, because I did not always agree with how IMDb assigned Genres to my movies. What they define as Comedy + Romance, I put in a folder "Romantic" (short for 'Romantic Comedy'), and some movies classified as Horror are more Thrillers in my eyes.So I still have that folder structure present on my harddisks, but with MovingPictures you can make a combination easy.For starters, MovingPictures will scrape all your movies based on the title and year (or NFO file) match on IMDb.com or one of the other scrapers it supports (such as this adult one). It then by default will create 2 main groups, "All Movies", and "Unwatched" which need no explanation. As well as "Year", based on the release year, grouped in decades. But it also creates a "Recently Added" category, which by default has the filter option to look for movies added in the last 30 days. This can be adjusted easy from within the configuration screen, and the FAQ has a good explanation on the general concept.Then by default it also generates a dynamic category 'Genres' which looks at all the IMDb/etc genres that were found when the movies get added to your database collection, and each Genre it finds is automatically added to that overview. A problem might occur with multi-language genres, but translation support to end up with a single Genre will eventually be added. Now this dynamic category can be turned into a static one. You will then loose the automatic feature if you add a new movie with a genre you don't have yet, but the static version allows you full control. You can rename, add or modify the existing filters, so you can add your superhero one.I myself prefer to leave the dynamic one alone, it works pretty good and I don't see any reasons to mess with it. So instead I created a seperate category tree, which contains all my custom filters. So I got "Asian", "Graphic Novel Adaptation", "Harry Potter Series", "James Bond Series", etc. And those filters are simple ones based on the FullPath option to match that to either the folder name (like 'Asian\'), or part of the filename (such as 'James Bond').And using MovingPictures does not mean you can't use MyVideos anymore, it actually serves an easy way to keep access to files that don't have any IMDb or other scraper entry, such as personal videos. Of course you could manually add all those movies to the MovingPictures database collection, but you can otherwise just reserve them for MyVideos, and use a different ImportPath for it.Just look for a folder that you have with say 10 movies in it, setup MovingPictures and configure the ImportPath to be that folder. Then you can play with it easy, see how it works with your filenaming scheme. If it fails, and you need a custom NoiseFilter, then asking for help is a lot easier then dealing with 100+ movies. Once MovPic is the way you like, then you can expand the Import Paths to be the same as MyVideos and let it run for as long as it takes to import your entire collection.I actually took the switch from MyVideos to MovingPictures as an oppertunity to redo my folder structure, so keep that in mind when you are testing with those first few movies. If you need more help don't be afraid to ask, but unless they are adult movies, create new topics in the main MovPic forum (search for an existing one first that matches what you are after), so this one doesn't get sidetracked.</blockquote>

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