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<blockquote data-quote="BlueBomber" data-source="post: 588628" data-attributes="member: 101816">Hey guys - couple of questions on all of this -I have lot's of movies with manually edited titles. I've been using that 'MP Artwork and Info Copier' app to create .nfo files and backup the cover/backdrops of all my movies to ensure that if there was any need to re-import my movie collection that it would be hassle free. I recently did a full uninstall/reinstall of the new RC version of MediaPortal/streamedMP. When I went into the MovingPictures config tab, I made sure that the .nfo scanner and the option to search for cover art &amp; backdrops was enabled before I did a scan/import of my movies folder. I noticed a couple of things:1) Before, there were some movies that I had to manually search for, but this time I did not. Every movie was auto-approved. I assume this is because each movie had an .nfo file with a imdb ID.2) The movies were not renamed like they were in my .nfo files.3) The cover art and backdrops successfully imported.Now I may be way off on this, but from my (little) reading of this thread, I gathered that all the .nfo scanner does is search for a corresponding link to IMDB within the .nfo file from which to gather all information about the movie. Is there a way to replace all of this movie detail info with whatever is in the .nfo file? All I really care about are not having to re-enter all of my manually edited movie titles...EDIT:Hmm...it appears as though I might simply need to change the order of scrapers used to XMBC. I will try this out when I get home to see if it works.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BlueBomber, post: 588628, member: 101816"] Hey guys - couple of questions on all of this - I have lot's of movies with manually edited titles. I've been using that 'MP Artwork and Info Copier' app to create .nfo files and backup the cover/backdrops of all my movies to ensure that if there was any need to re-import my movie collection that it would be hassle free. I recently did a full uninstall/reinstall of the new RC version of MediaPortal/streamedMP. When I went into the MovingPictures config tab, I made sure that the .nfo scanner and the option to search for cover art & backdrops was enabled before I did a scan/import of my movies folder. I noticed a couple of things: 1) Before, there were some movies that I had to manually search for, but this time I did not. Every movie was auto-approved. I assume this is because each movie had an .nfo file with a imdb ID. 2) The movies were not renamed like they were in my .nfo files. 3) The cover art and backdrops successfully imported. Now I may be way off on this, but from my (little) reading of this thread, I gathered that all the .nfo scanner does is search for a corresponding link to IMDB within the .nfo file from which to gather all information about the movie. Is there a way to replace all of this movie detail info with whatever is in the .nfo file? All I really care about are not having to re-enter all of my manually edited movie titles... EDIT: Hmm...it appears as though I might simply need to change the order of scrapers used to XMBC. I will try this out when I get home to see if it works. [/QUOTE]

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