Matthew Kolb / Matt Kolb

Who am I?
I am a software developer with a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and Master's degree in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.

Media Manager

Features

  • Warns if you have missing .tbn or .nfo files for tv shows/movies.
  • Warns if you have multipart tv shows
  • Warns if you have a missing episode (only if you have E01 and E03 will it warn about E02 but not about E04, doesn't check TVDB)
  • Saves a list of all of your media to a txt file
  • Updates your .nfo files for movies to use the genre in the directory structure (described below)
  • Easy renaming of your movies to include the IMDB year

File/Directory Naming Structure

For TV Shows, each episode must be named with S##E##. It will warn you if you have an episode that is multi-part in the format S##E##E## (XBMC Media Companion doesn't support it). The directory stucture is as follows: BASE_DIR/TV_SHOW/EPISODE or BASE_DIR/TV_SHOW/SEASON/EPISODE

I have my movies separated into two locations. I first make a copy of them on my local computer and do some formatting. Then I move them over to my remote drive. If this doesn't work for you, just set the paths in the config to the same directory.For remote movies, you have to have them in the directory structure as follows for : BASE_DIR/GENRE/OPTIONAL_SUBDIR/MOVIE. For

Warning

You have been warned that the following was written with the intention of just me using it. For my purposes, it has been tested and works. However, you may use under a different environment where there are bugs.

Download

Click the following link: Download

Installation

It is just a set of PHP files that make up a webpage. If you are on Linux, you probably know what to do. For Windows installation, just download XAMPP Lite and install it. Then unzip the files below into the htdocs folder. You will need to open the file xbmc/system/application/controllers/welcome.php and edit the 3 paths to your media at the top. Then run xampp and point your browser to http://localhost/xbmc . The list of your tv shows/movies is updated when you click the appropriate link in your browser and is saved to xbmc/movies.txt or xbmc/tv.txt

Usage

Click the link at the top for tv shows/movies to update the txt file with the list of your movies and display the list of warnings in your browser. NOTE: Hitting the remote movies link updates your .nfo files with the new genre for all movies in your remote movies base directory. You may want to backup your .nfo's first.

If you are missinig the year in your movie filename, there will be a warning with a link to IMDB rename. Click the link and then the years on the next page should be shown as a hyperlink. Just click the hyperlink to rename the movie. It will also rename the following extensions that are have the same name as the movie: .tbn, .srt, .nfo, -fanart-jpg, -fanart1.jpg, etc.