Tools and other software tinyMediaManager - The Media Manager for MediaPortal (Win/Mac/Linux) (2 Viewers)

[mlaggner]

tinyMediaManager
is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata and artwork for XBMC and MediaPortal. Originally written to support XBMC (forum link to the XBMC thread) we are actively working with some MediaPortal users (ysMP, joostzilla, megahorst and Infinite.Loop) to add support for MediaPortal.

Homepage
http://www.tinymediamanager.org

Features:
Movies:

• Unique Movie Scanner
  • find Movies in subdirectories (one movie per directory)
  • find supplemental files (subtitles, poster, nfo, ..) in nearby directories and match to movie
  • Detect clean and searchable movie name
  • Handle common "release directory" structures and names
  • Handle DVD/BluRay structures
  • runs in parallel for better performance
• parsing existing NFO files (EMM/XBMC/MP format)
• scraping metadata and artwork from TMDB
• scraping metadata from IMDB
• scraping metadata from OFDb.de
• scraping metadata from zelluloid.de
• scraping artwork from fanart.tv
• scraping trailer from OFDb.de
• scraping trailer from hd-trailers.net
• writing NFO files (XBMC and MediaPortal format; MediaPortal is not fully tested)
• changing movie metadata (also choosing different images)
• batch processing (search all unscraped movies - forcing best match; scrape all selected movies - forcing best match)
• rename and cleanup all items accordingly
• movieset management ( http://code.google.com/p/tinymediamanager/wiki/Moviesets )
  • add custom poster & fanart
  • auto assigns movies
  • compatible with Movie Set Artwork Automator
• list exporting

TV shows:

• Powerful TV show importer (see here)
• Handle DVD/BluRay structures
• scraping metadata and artwork from TMDB
• parsing existing NFO files (EMM/XBMC format)
• writing NFO files (XBMC format)
• TV show renamer

General:

• App for Mac OSX; Executeable file for Windows; Shellscript/.desktop file for Linux
• Automatic updates at startup
• Powerful searching, sorting and filtering
• extracting media information via MediaInfo
• UI translations (internationalization - please help at: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/tinymediamanager/)

Features to be implemented

• polishing ui

some screenshots - more at tinyMediaManager


Bug reporting and Feature requests
please report bugs and feature requests at GitHub whenever its possible (it gives a better overview over bugs than a forum).
I will also check this thread for bugs and enter the bug report myself if someone has no Google account

Downloads
tinyMediaManager is available at GitHub

Native starters should work on every OS.
The first time you start tinyMediaManager it will create some files and directories in the running directory (except Mac version - all files will be created inside the App)

Problems?
tinyMediaManager does not show correct movie information or is acting weird: try to delete tmm.odb (via the "debug menu - initialize database" and/or config.xml! Sometimes a change in the sourcecode can create an inconsistency between the database/config and tinyMediaManager

Usage
The first time you start, you will have to add an existing directory containing the movies (the structure has to be "one movie per directory"). For example:

• movies
  • Aladdin
    • Aladdin.mkv
  • A-Team
    • movie.avi

After you added a directory containing movies, you can update the datasources in the "movie panel". Once the movies are imported, you can either search for it in TMDB/IMDB/OFDB (magnifying glass icon) or change it manually (pencil image);
When changing a movie, you can also choose other images (just click the image you want to change). All available images for this movie will be downloaded from TMDB/Fanart.tv, as soon as there is a IMDB id or TMDB id is present.
Whenever you scrape or change a movie, the NFO file next to the movie will the modified; the poster and the fanart will also be modified, if they have been found.

If there are any questions, feel free to ask!

Contribute
If you appreciate all the effort that has gone into this application then consider a donation. While it's neither expected nor required it is highly appreciated!


You can also:

• help testing and send bug reports / feature requests
• support any site which tinyMediaManager contacts (TheMovieDB.org, Fanart.tv, ...)

 

[joostzilla]

Hi Manuel,
Welcome to the MP forum.

 

[Commerzpunk]

Well, that looks great!
And I got a question:
What about writing NFO-Files for tv-shows in mediaportal format?

 

[megahorst]

If anybody would like to test:

I have tested together with Manuel and have used this MePo settings:

Especially the sorting order is nice. When using this you will have all movies belonging to a boxset/series (Harry Potter, James Bond, ...) together one by one in there right order in the database. (The set/series is scraped directly out of tmdb).

More than one fanart is still under development if I'm not wrong. But within my testversion ist seems to work fine. Will try to finalise my tests within the next days.

 

[ysmp]

Hi Manuel,
Fainely we see tMM in MP forum ....
its bin a year from the start of the develop
what can i say excelent tool .... work with MP my video (in shear view) out of the box ...
(many of the Graphic images in tMM i pass to manuel from our great MP guys from our MP comuntey )

so for short story ... yes there was MP guys working on this great tool from biging me in the pass (sorry manuel for not bin more active as in the pass ... real life not left any much free time for MP or tMM ...for now ) And now Joost and some more that working now days .... Cant wait to see new version with Joost deasign .

Manuel a small Bug in MP NFO : Cartification (usa) , now is write as " <mpaa>US_PG13</mpaa> " Need to be "<mpaa>PG13</mpaa> you change it some time ago ... and i forget to report it .... still view like this in last version ...

thanks for all the work you down and will do more ....
i will be in tuch ...

 

[mlaggner]

Well, that looks great!
And I got a question:
What about writing NFO-Files for tv-shows in mediaportal format?

At the moment TV shows only read/write XBMC compatible NFOs (and there are still no extra scraper in there - just a lack of time here ). Our interface is clean enough to switch to an other export/import format - I only need some sort of documentation

Manuel a small Bug in MP NFO : Cartification (usa) , now is write as " US_PG13 " Need to be "PG13 you change it some time ago ... and i forget to report it .... still view like this in last version ...

some time ago I switched the certification notation to an other one. It looks like there is (like in XBMC) no defined notation for it; megahorst did some research in MP and this is the way we changed it. Here you can see the forum thread of the discussion


If I get some input here (and possibly testers ), I am sure we can create a perfect support for MP in tinyMediaManager. I just need some testers, because I can't test it in MP (Linux user and no windows machine at home )

Cheers,
Manuel

 

[Pat Clark]

I uninstalled Java some time back, with all its exploits, and I'm not currently running any Java apps.

What is the current state of affairs for Java? What should be done to protect the system?

 

[Myron]

well, no Java == no TMM

Java (as framework) has as many flaws as every other tool/os/framework you use (for sure!)
It's always a matter of trust, to use software from others - or not.
But: Java itself isn't (that) bad.
Only malicious code on your system might be able to do bad things.

When it comes to TMM, the source is available. Feel free to check it.
Same for Java framework itself.
But if you have Java activated in your browser, then you'll be doomed pretty fast

Any other TMM specific question i might help you with?


Hi all, btw

 

[mlaggner]

30.09.2013 - version 2.4 - r1013
feature: detect movies in multi movie dirs (this file structure is not recommended)
feature: added wake on LAN support
feature: add up to 5 fanarts to the MediaPortal NFO
feature: clear image cache for single movies/TV shows/episodes
feature: reworked search result score calculation (automatic scrape should now be better)
feature: Moviemeter.nl will now gather more data
feature: reworked movie panel for better access to common menu items
feature: added certification to the renamer options
feature: made search panel a bit smaller, so it is not taking up that much space
feature: our 1000th commit
fix: fixed movie renamer. If you encounter some problems with incomplete renaming - an update datasource should fix it!
fix: if you suffered from incomplete renaming, tmm crashed when selecting a movie
fix: fixed a crash in the image panel
fix: IMDB scraper should now return better localized titles
fix: TheTVDb scraper will now always take the right language from settings
fix: better detection of BR/DVD folders
fix: changed working directory for *nix commandline shellscripts
fix: cancel TV show renamer should now cancel immediately
fix: close movie scraper (force best match) via 'X' will no longer start the scraper

 

[mlaggner]

05.10.2013 - version 2.4.1
feature: detect imdb id from file/folder name at import
feature: switched scaling algorithm to imgscalr - is should now use less memory, be faster and the images have a better quality
feature: implemented a new column resizer - the tables for media files/trailer should now have more accurate column widths
feature: option to not renaming a movie into a movie set folder, when the movie set only has one movie
fix: do not overwrite imdb id / tmdb id with empty values when scraping
fix: better messages when renaming does not work
fix: added a warning that TV show episodes with season/episode number -1 (not detected ones) cannot be renamed
fix: added a warning before initializing the database
fix: do not rename movie trailers when the renaming settings are empty
fix: exclude movie set artwork from movie import
fix: do not import windows special dirs (like $RECYCLE.BIN or Volume System Information)
fix: store extrathumbs/extrafanart in the database after download
fix: rebuild image cache now also caches extrafanart/extrathumbs