A lot of people were complaining that this takes a lot of time to do this manually… and I’m one of them. This is why I made a little tool that is supposed to load this metadata in the format of the WD TV Live Hub… for movies that return just one movie-description (based on the file name) from http://www.themoviedb.org.
I really hope the Hub’s development team is able to include getting the metadata as fast as possible in the process to detect new files… but until then, it can be of help…
It is just a rough tool, and only tested on my own movie files… so don’t expect anything fancy… and I can’t give any guarantees that it will be bug-free!
What an amazing tool, I’m sure you know how many people have been asking for this and that’s why you made it. Couple things which I’m not sure even sure could be fixed
*It doesn’t see movies with tags at the end such as “Anastasia HDTV”, “Beauty And The Beast EE”, “Avatar 1080p”
*It doesn’t see movies with a hyphen such as “Ben-Hur” “The A-Team”
Other than that, a great tool we have here. It took 5 seconds to grab metadata for 10 movies.
P.S. - Thank you for using the proper date format (day,month,year):
You might want to give Media Center Master a try - it now creates .NFO files (XBMC format, as well as others) with movie information for use in these devices/applications. I have not had a chance to try out the NFO files yet, but plan on doing so in the next week or two.
As i said above this is great, but just noticed none of my movies i have created metadata for using this show the date on the WDTV? Is this due to the date format being different?
Hi Tony I can see the date in the XML file under the year tag but in the hub it just displays n/a if I then ask it to rescan info in puts the date in with m/d/y format where as the one in the meta file was day month year. Also I noticed that the ones added with this tool keep the file name for the movie
1> A file called “moviename.jpg” must exist in the same folder as the movie.
For example, if your movie is “Sharks Kill All.avi” then youd need a file called “Sharks Kill All.jpg”
2> You can’t. That’s a bug in the WD’s code. This DOES work if you do GET CONTENT INFO on the movie, but then that will overwrite the XML that this tool provides, so you’re need to put it back.
Thank you for this excellent tool, It did save me bunch of time to get some of my metadata…
One request, Can you please include means to parse subdirectories and gather Metadata Information? - I have my movies in folders and this tool does not seem to work when there are folders and subfolders.
Also, Please include .ISO in the file list of known files.
Thank you again for a wonderful tool, Hope you find time to update the tool for the community.
Thank you for this excellent tool, It did save me bunch of time to get some of my metadata…
One request, Can you please include means to parse subdirectories and gather Metadata Information? - I have my movies in folders and this tool does not seem to work when there are folders and subfolders.
Also, Please include .ISO in the file list of known files.
Thank you again for a wonderful tool, Hope you find time to update the tool for the community.
With best wishes
If you want iso use immediately just go to the end of the current movie extensions and add , .iso after WMV
My movies are in subdirectories and it scanned them all. Have a look at the log file in C:\temp to see what happened.
Be aware that this tool will not download any information where there is more than one title found plus it may download the wrong movie info so you should check.