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<blockquote data-quote="bwg" data-source="post: 1101205" data-attributes="member: 63012"><p>Personally I do this. I use EmberMediaManager to scrape all the data incl. covers, fanart, and trailers (not that there's anything wrong with the scrapers in MyFilms / AMCUpdater). It's very much a personal thing, however I feel that this is a little safer if for some reason the ant catalog gets corrupted and you can't restore from one of your many auto-backups, you can always rebuild entirely from local sources, instead of online scraping (I have a very large collection). It is also useful if you want to be able to update a catalog on a client that is not online. Also, it feels more future-proof; I don't intend to stop using MyFilms, but if things evolve that way (e.g. it does not move to MP2, or if at some point I ended up using different software) at least all the data is there ready to rebuild into a new db with the right scraper.</p><p></p><p>But I do love the huge scope of functionality in MyFilms, and I hope that is going to make the move to MP2 [any hints on intentions Guzzi? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />]</p><p></p><p>EDIT: a note on the ANT catalog - when using a setup that has NFO files etc., a catalog still gets built and populated automatically when you use the NFO scraper in AMCUpdater. So you will end up with an ANT catalog regardless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bwg, post: 1101205, member: 63012"] Personally I do this. I use EmberMediaManager to scrape all the data incl. covers, fanart, and trailers (not that there's anything wrong with the scrapers in MyFilms / AMCUpdater). It's very much a personal thing, however I feel that this is a little safer if for some reason the ant catalog gets corrupted and you can't restore from one of your many auto-backups, you can always rebuild entirely from local sources, instead of online scraping (I have a very large collection). It is also useful if you want to be able to update a catalog on a client that is not online. Also, it feels more future-proof; I don't intend to stop using MyFilms, but if things evolve that way (e.g. it does not move to MP2, or if at some point I ended up using different software) at least all the data is there ready to rebuild into a new db with the right scraper. But I do love the huge scope of functionality in MyFilms, and I hope that is going to make the move to MP2 [any hints on intentions Guzzi? :)] EDIT: a note on the ANT catalog - when using a setup that has NFO files etc., a catalog still gets built and populated automatically when you use the NFO scraper in AMCUpdater. So you will end up with an ANT catalog regardless. [/QUOTE]
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