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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1250036" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>Media-Buddy does not run in the background. It is meant for a complete preparation of Video and Audio files before!! you add the media to your library. </p><p>The "normal" workflow is: </p><p>First configure Media-Buddy as you like or need. Be aware that settings done in e.g. video transcode are used for the wizards as well. As you normally need to do this only once it's not a big deal... Then you can start with the "daily business"</p><p></p><p>You are recording, ripping downloading,... your media files. Collect them in a few "input" directories. One for movies, one for other types of videos, one for music and one for series where the series folder should have sub- folders for any series you currently are working on and the music folder should have the same for every Artist. You can locate those folders wherever you like but best is on a local disc to get maximum speed out of it. </p><p>On the other hand you have some "output" folders. Movies, Videos, Audio and Series. You also can place them anywhere you like but best is on a local disc, preferred a different one then the input folders. </p><p></p><p>Music files need to be already tagged as Media-Buddy only adds the missing stuff that is not available in ID3 tags. This mainly is for Artist fanart and metadata. </p><p></p><p>Movies best are named ttxxxxxxx.ext where ttxxxxxxx is the IMDB-ID of the movie. This way there always is a 100% perfect match with a damn short file name. Anything else in the filename will be ignored as long as a tt number can be found. If there is no tt number, Media-Buddy tries to "guess" as good as possible which movie it is. Things like the release year in the file name are helpful but this never is as reliable as the usage of the tt number. </p><p></p><p>Videos are attached with a .nfo file and also fanart and poster, generated from still images out of the video. You can set a default genre or you can use subfolders (like "holidays", "documentary", "family",...) as you like. If selected those sub- folders are used as "genre" for the video files instead of a default genre valid for every video prepared in this run. </p><p></p><p>Series did not use the IMDB-ID in file name. Here you should place an already existing tvshow.nfo inside the output series/seriesname/ folder. If you don't have a tvshow.nfo because you are preparing episodes from this series the first time you also can place an empty text file with name "TVDB-xxxxxx.txt" into the output series subfolder where xxxxxx is the TVDB- ID of the series. The same is working with "TMDB-xxxx.txt" here you need to use the TheMovieDB ID of course. This is useful if a series is not listed/allowed on TVDB but is available on TheMovieDB. This way you will get metadata and fanart even for those series not available on TVDB at all...</p><p></p><p>If there is neither a tvshow.nfo nor a TVDB-xxxxxx.txt then Media-Buddy tries to "guess" the series from the "seriesname" sub- folder (in output). But this is not 100% perfect as there are too many series with identical names and the TVDB API didn't use the year to specify a result, excerpt for the series, where the year is inside the "official" series name... </p><p></p><p>Episodes needs to be named in a way the season and episodes number can be identified. S01E01 is working as 1x01 do too. Even 101 is working as long as this is the last part of the episodes name. "tvs-navy-cis-new-orleans-dd51-ded-dl-18p-azhd-x264-420.mkv" is working (season 4 episode 20) but "tvs-navy-cis-new-orleans-dd51-ded-dl-18p-azhd-x264-412-rp.mkv" is not. Here you need to remove the "-rp" from the end of the file name to get this working... </p><p></p><p>Now you can run (one of) the wizards. For Audio the wizard is not ready. We're working on it right now. Media-Buddy then scans the input folder for all e.g. movies and decides (based on your settings) if the video is too big and need transcoding or if it needs to be remuxxed or only copied. Once all movies are transcoded/remuxxed/copied Media-Buddy starts adding metadata and fanart to your movies. When done it renames the movies as you set this up in Media-Buddy and, if they are in .mkv container after preparation (strongly recommended) it also tag the video files (it's very common for music but, also it is easily possible, not that well known for video) and attach the fanart into the video file. Only a few video container supporting metatags for videos, mkv is the most complete of all and the only one where MP2 can use those metatags to identify a movie/series. This way you only need one single mouse click to prepare "tons" of movies completely... As transcoding is taking a long time it's great to collect some movies and let Media-Buddy ran over night. If a few of the movies didn't need to be transcoded, Media-Buddy takes care of. And Media-Buddy can send the PC to sleep or even shut it down completely when the job is done...</p><p> </p><p>After the wizard is finished you can control and/or modify the automatic results by replacing graphics and/or changing text from inside the Media-Buddy GUI easily. </p><p></p><p>When you're done with the movies you can run e.g. the series wizard and meanwhile move the prepared movies into your media library, where they are perfectly recognized by MP2 (or other tools like Kodi or similar)... </p><p></p><p>Sound complicated? It isn't. Once you get used to it you never want something else as it's the easiest and fastest way to get perfectly prepared movies/series. Generating fanart and .nfo for "other videos" is a completely unique feature you didn't find anywhere else. </p><p>I've start coding this tool as I'm very unhappy with all existing video tools available those days. Ever since then I use it daily and I never ever can miss it again... TotalCommander, Chrome and Media-Buddy are the the most often used tools on my system... Everything else only is very little used compared to those 3...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1250036, member: 109222"] Hi. Media-Buddy does not run in the background. It is meant for a complete preparation of Video and Audio files before!! you add the media to your library. The "normal" workflow is: First configure Media-Buddy as you like or need. Be aware that settings done in e.g. video transcode are used for the wizards as well. As you normally need to do this only once it's not a big deal... Then you can start with the "daily business" You are recording, ripping downloading,... your media files. Collect them in a few "input" directories. One for movies, one for other types of videos, one for music and one for series where the series folder should have sub- folders for any series you currently are working on and the music folder should have the same for every Artist. You can locate those folders wherever you like but best is on a local disc to get maximum speed out of it. On the other hand you have some "output" folders. Movies, Videos, Audio and Series. You also can place them anywhere you like but best is on a local disc, preferred a different one then the input folders. Music files need to be already tagged as Media-Buddy only adds the missing stuff that is not available in ID3 tags. This mainly is for Artist fanart and metadata. Movies best are named ttxxxxxxx.ext where ttxxxxxxx is the IMDB-ID of the movie. This way there always is a 100% perfect match with a damn short file name. Anything else in the filename will be ignored as long as a tt number can be found. If there is no tt number, Media-Buddy tries to "guess" as good as possible which movie it is. Things like the release year in the file name are helpful but this never is as reliable as the usage of the tt number. Videos are attached with a .nfo file and also fanart and poster, generated from still images out of the video. You can set a default genre or you can use subfolders (like "holidays", "documentary", "family",...) as you like. If selected those sub- folders are used as "genre" for the video files instead of a default genre valid for every video prepared in this run. Series did not use the IMDB-ID in file name. Here you should place an already existing tvshow.nfo inside the output series/seriesname/ folder. If you don't have a tvshow.nfo because you are preparing episodes from this series the first time you also can place an empty text file with name "TVDB-xxxxxx.txt" into the output series subfolder where xxxxxx is the TVDB- ID of the series. The same is working with "TMDB-xxxx.txt" here you need to use the TheMovieDB ID of course. This is useful if a series is not listed/allowed on TVDB but is available on TheMovieDB. This way you will get metadata and fanart even for those series not available on TVDB at all... If there is neither a tvshow.nfo nor a TVDB-xxxxxx.txt then Media-Buddy tries to "guess" the series from the "seriesname" sub- folder (in output). But this is not 100% perfect as there are too many series with identical names and the TVDB API didn't use the year to specify a result, excerpt for the series, where the year is inside the "official" series name... Episodes needs to be named in a way the season and episodes number can be identified. S01E01 is working as 1x01 do too. Even 101 is working as long as this is the last part of the episodes name. "tvs-navy-cis-new-orleans-dd51-ded-dl-18p-azhd-x264-420.mkv" is working (season 4 episode 20) but "tvs-navy-cis-new-orleans-dd51-ded-dl-18p-azhd-x264-412-rp.mkv" is not. Here you need to remove the "-rp" from the end of the file name to get this working... Now you can run (one of) the wizards. For Audio the wizard is not ready. We're working on it right now. Media-Buddy then scans the input folder for all e.g. movies and decides (based on your settings) if the video is too big and need transcoding or if it needs to be remuxxed or only copied. Once all movies are transcoded/remuxxed/copied Media-Buddy starts adding metadata and fanart to your movies. When done it renames the movies as you set this up in Media-Buddy and, if they are in .mkv container after preparation (strongly recommended) it also tag the video files (it's very common for music but, also it is easily possible, not that well known for video) and attach the fanart into the video file. Only a few video container supporting metatags for videos, mkv is the most complete of all and the only one where MP2 can use those metatags to identify a movie/series. This way you only need one single mouse click to prepare "tons" of movies completely... As transcoding is taking a long time it's great to collect some movies and let Media-Buddy ran over night. If a few of the movies didn't need to be transcoded, Media-Buddy takes care of. And Media-Buddy can send the PC to sleep or even shut it down completely when the job is done... After the wizard is finished you can control and/or modify the automatic results by replacing graphics and/or changing text from inside the Media-Buddy GUI easily. When you're done with the movies you can run e.g. the series wizard and meanwhile move the prepared movies into your media library, where they are perfectly recognized by MP2 (or other tools like Kodi or similar)... Sound complicated? It isn't. Once you get used to it you never want something else as it's the easiest and fastest way to get perfectly prepared movies/series. Generating fanart and .nfo for "other videos" is a completely unique feature you didn't find anywhere else. I've start coding this tool as I'm very unhappy with all existing video tools available those days. Ever since then I use it daily and I never ever can miss it again... TotalCommander, Chrome and Media-Buddy are the the most often used tools on my system... Everything else only is very little used compared to those 3... [/QUOTE]
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