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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robii" data-source="post: 562503" data-attributes="member: 89293">Some ideas maybe for enhancementFirst, big thanks for developing this, works great <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />I like the idea to directly maintain my movie collection in MP, as I am currently doing with with AMC, which is creating some overhead. Moreover, AMC importer and other tools were not really working that well, with their own scripts etc (I i.e. like the approach that MP scripts can be reused as-is).Nevertheless, I no not really "trust" the MP DB. It is easy to loose with upgrades, and difficult to share across multiple PCs. What I would hate is the idea of loosing all efforts put into a good maintained movie collection.So some ideas for extension here, to make this the perfect tool:1) Besides from MP scripts, file based grabber, which looks for a local XML / NFO with movie details and a local JPG if those should exist with same name as movie itself. Great if this could use the information from the TV Server generadted XML, since documentation, talk shows etc has all the information from EPG in there, and doing an IMDB lookup etc is pretty useless here.2) Batch import, searching for all files in a video folder recursively, doing the lookup if no information can be found for that movie in the MP DB already, and automatically adding information to the MP DB. MP is somehow doing this from the config, but I was asked to confirm every single match (even those with only one search result). With hundreds of movies, this sort of confirmation is pretty annoying3) Batch export of the MP movie DB to local XML / NFO files (same like existing export, but creating a local XML / NFO and JPG in the folder of the specific movie, with same nameDoing so, one could a) Build up a huge movie collection pretty fast, using the batch import b) Once the collection details are all updated accordingly, run the batch export c) If MP DB is lost or reusing movie details on another machine would be easy, simply running the batch, using the local XML / NFO file information that has been created before. This would even work if movie collection is on shared drives, one would rerun the batch, have data imported from the local XML / NFO / JPGI know that this can be partially achieved by AMC Updater or other tools, and Moving Pictures has some of these features, but using a whole bunch of different tools is pretty unhandy, and I do not like the overhead really of Moving Pictures, as I am fine with the GUI capabilities which is offered by the MP Videos standard functionalities.</blockquote>

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