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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guzzi" data-source="post: 814216" data-attributes="member: 55213">AW: Re: My Films 5.1 released (19.09.2011) - V5.1.0.1468 (MP 1.2.0)Quite some feedback ;-) - thanks a lot! I will try to add some comments - maybe Dadeo or anybody else can add some of them to wiki where useful...The extended fields are on an extra tab in AMC unofficial - but they would not show up in MyFilms yet anyway. Otherwise it should behave as standard AMC I assume.That's not always correct, as it could also contain a playlist, a list of files (multipart), etc. I have renamed it now to "Item for movie source info"...That comes from early days, iirc that time AMC used URL field for media source info - but wiki recommends use of "Storage" - which is imho the best choice today At the time I added that feature, I defaulted to "false" to make sure no bad side effects are there. Further, people that use NAS or other solutions, that do spin down the hard drives will probably not like it, that myfilms starts all drives to check availability.So I leave that to a community discussion, what is preferred as a starting point for the wizard - of course it can be changed after anyway to what the user prefers...Those options in Movie Path configuration are for special use cases:MyFilms supports to main scenarios:a) Fully qualified info about media file(s) in the source fieldb) No or missing movie source info in source field and using "search mode" based on options.a) is straight ahead - the media files, playlists, etc. are fully qualified and will/can be played like that.b) If info in source field is wrong or missing, MyFilms will search for corresponding / matching media files based on the options settings, that is: Search Expression (Search by movie title), onyl exact matches ("star trek" will only find "star trek" but not "star trek 2"), Pathes define where to search and "subfolders" enables subfolder search.If there IS a setting for "Item for Movie Source Info", MyFilms will update that info, if the movie was found with those settings - making next "play" faster.Both can be combined - you can use "a" without "b" - so if source info is wrong or missing, you can't start movie - "a" with "b" - so MyFilms will try to search your movie, if source info is wrong or missing, otr only "b" - so MyFilms will always have to search for your movies (slower, especially, if movies are on network drive).I peronally always used the a without b - but I know, there are ppl using the other scenarios too ...Only, if the user wants to use the "b" option - and it can be slow on networkdrives. This is for users with offline library, like DVDs - you can define what info should be displayed if the media is not online available, like lcoker or movie number (depending on how you organize your catalog).Have a look at the tooltip(s) - there is a lot of info and explanations there too ;-) Of course - and you can do so by setting it to "(none)".The "checked" field in AMC is not shown as a field, as it is boolean - it is shown in the filmlist as a checkbox.It would perform the update defined below, that you can freely define - e.g. setting a field to a certain value.It is somehow obsolete, as for most users, the watched handling is enough - but for users that want something special, those can use this - maybe, because they need that info for a website or whatever. Don't know, when this was introduced and if anybody is using it... ;-)IMDB+ is a script for MoPi, it is not compatible to MyFilms, sorry. There will be some addons for edition support, groups (movie collections) etc. in next AMCupdater version - for ppl using AMC as base DB maintenance, it's up to scripts and features available there. Soulsnake afaik is planning import features too, so it will depend on what's coming there, we'll see ...It is for updates of movies from MyFilms GUI. You'd most probably like to do those, because you're not satisfied with the result of an import or automatic update - so imho especially then you might want to select other thanb default scraper to try to get better info/artwork. As long as talking about updates from MyFilms GUI for single movies, I personally prefer to select manually - see reasons above.If we're talking about batch imports via AMCupdater (there is also such settings available) - then your question becomes of important relevance. If you use background imports, myfilms will always try to find best match automatically. If you use AMCupdater in interactive mode, this decides, if you will be asked to confirm each movie or not. Imho, AMCupdater is careful and normally you can use it - AMCupdater will not import the movie, if it cannot be matched automatically, unless you tell it to do so.Again, all this only applies for users that use AMCupdater for imports and/or updates.Seems, you should use Filename&internetlookup - as otherwise you will use the "genre" as search phrase for internet data lookup. It will, but there are exceptions - it will only check within the scan pathes - so if you have movies in your database in  e.g. "d:\movies" and do NOT have that in the scan path(es), the entries will not be removed. (e.g. for offline storage)Yes, you can. It's only a preset from the wizard.For normal AMC usage, yes (Others may comment having other use cases).Well, as you can see, there is thousands of possibilities ;-) - but it doesn't matter from MyFilms perspective, as the name is stored in the catalog file - so set it as you prefer it.As said above, names should not be relevant, as they are stored and AMC, AMCupdater and MyFilms all read the info from DB.So it's more about having settings that make sure, created cover picture names "look the same" from AMC and AMCupdater.iirc, you can use that to store images somewhere else, using relative pathes (e.g. in a subfolder of your catalog). If you use that, make sure, to use same settings in MyFilms, otherwise AMCupdater would place new pictures in catalog folder, AMC in a subfolder.Again, they should all work, because the part of the relative path is stored in catalog - so even mixed content should work (but might confuse yourself ;-))Maybe Dadeo can comment on that, as afaik he uses relative pathes... Yes, naming is different, so unless there would be a converter, it would not work. Not sure, if I understand - that is independant of MyFilms, right?</blockquote>

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