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Ummm, that is what movie-xml site does really
Online Movie Database - An open directory of Movies for HTPC software

It has IMDB number stored against each movie as well if you need that.
The whole site is user driven so is only as good as the contributors.
If everyone with MP switched to using it from IMDB and each updated a few movies that they found did not hold all the info they wanted it would be perfect in no time.

or if you want to create some sort of tool why not write a scrapper for IMDB that populates info into movie-xml site.

djphatic - no plot info? for any movies? If this is the case then something is broken. Must admit I have not used it lately as I am spending all my spare time (which is not a lot in the last 2 weeks) on the tvseries plugin, finding bugs and developing a new animated skin for it; but it will not take me a minute to fix this if there is a problem.
I do all my updates through the setup app usually, so you can use that to switch covers.

I could, but am reluctant to, create a hybrid scrapper that gets movie info from IMDB and covers from moviexml; but that would not help out the moviexml site ethos and would lead to it disappearing; so I still believe the best thing to do is populate as much info into the moviexml site as possible.

Perhaps if someone modified the myMovies part of MP to be more like TVseries plugin then we could give users the ability to rate movies directly form MP back to moviexml (like tvseries plugin does with thetvdb.com) then that would encourage more users over to it?

<blockquote data-quote="gamejester" data-source="post: 268195" data-attributes="member: 50634">Ummm, that is what movie-xml site does really<a href="http://www.movie-xml.com/" target="_blank">Online Movie Database - An open directory of Movies for HTPC software</a>It has IMDB number stored against each movie as well if you need that.The whole site is user driven so is only as good as the contributors.If everyone with MP switched to using it from IMDB and each updated a few movies that they found did not hold all the info they wanted it would be perfect in no time.or if you want to create some sort of tool why not write a scrapper for IMDB that populates info into movie-xml site.djphatic - no plot info? for any movies? If this is the case then something is broken. Must admit I have not used it lately as I am spending all my spare time (which is not a lot in the last 2 weeks) on the tvseries plugin, finding bugs and developing a new animated skin for it; but it will not take me a minute to fix this if there is a problem.I do all my updates through the setup app usually, so you can use that to switch covers.I could, but am reluctant to, create&nbsp; a hybrid scrapper that gets movie info from IMDB and covers from moviexml; but that would not help out the moviexml site ethos and would lead to it disappearing; so I still believe the best thing to do is populate as much info into the moviexml site as possible.Perhaps if someone modified the myMovies part of MP to be more like TVseries plugin then we could give users the ability to rate movies directly form MP back to moviexml (like tvseries plugin does with thetvdb.com) then that would encourage more users over to it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamejester, post: 268195, member: 50634"] Ummm, that is what movie-xml site does really [url=http://www.movie-xml.com/]Online Movie Database - An open directory of Movies for HTPC software[/url] It has IMDB number stored against each movie as well if you need that. The whole site is user driven so is only as good as the contributors. If everyone with MP switched to using it from IMDB and each updated a few movies that they found did not hold all the info they wanted it would be perfect in no time. or if you want to create some sort of tool why not write a scrapper for IMDB that populates info into movie-xml site. djphatic - no plot info? for any movies? If this is the case then something is broken. Must admit I have not used it lately as I am spending all my spare time (which is not a lot in the last 2 weeks) on the tvseries plugin, finding bugs and developing a new animated skin for it; but it will not take me a minute to fix this if there is a problem. I do all my updates through the setup app usually, so you can use that to switch covers. I could, but am reluctant to, create a hybrid scrapper that gets movie info from IMDB and covers from moviexml; but that would not help out the moviexml site ethos and would lead to it disappearing; so I still believe the best thing to do is populate as much info into the moviexml site as possible. Perhaps if someone modified the myMovies part of MP to be more like TVseries plugin then we could give users the ability to rate movies directly form MP back to moviexml (like tvseries plugin does with thetvdb.com) then that would encourage more users over to it? [/QUOTE]