jcalton88
20-10-2009 12:10:28
I recently stumbled upon this wonderful piece of software, and have a few requests that come from other apps I have used.
My problem is I have found a few apps that do part of what I want, but none that do it all. Currently I'm using a program called MetaBrowser to organize my tv shows, along with my movies. It works off of TheTVDB and TheMovieDB to get its information and saves it in mymovies.xml format. This is used by a Media Center Plug-in called Media Browser(if you haven't heard of it check it out.) My TV shows come from TED(Torrent Episode Downloader) which is great but sometimes unreliable.
Basically, TED downloads the torrents into a watched folder, Bittorrent picks them up and downloads them to a "new shows" folder that Metabrowser watches, processes the shows, renames them to my specs and places them in the correct folder, along with the metadata(series.xml) and cover art(folder.jpg) and fan-art(backdrop.jpg). I then run another program called StarkCovers to give the cover art a little life.
As you probably see, TVRename does a lot of this, and some other things that are pretty cool. Currently, I cannot check for missing episodes, or have a RSS of when to watch from any of the programs I use.
SO now to the feature requests.
1. Gather metadata and save in series.xml format -------- I know this is being done in a XBMC format, I don't know how similar these are, if someone can give me an example? Would be nice to have the switch.
2. Add automatic downloading ------ TED does this by matching your preferences to files, by filtering by 720 and such, choosing the torrent with the most seeders and can also filter by min and max file size. These can be saved to a specific folder that Utorrent or Bittorrent watches, then they save those to the appropriate folder. TV Rename can then watch that folder and add automatically, processing for all cover art/fan art and renaming, as well as getting Metadata.
3. Search on specific date/time ----- Another thing TED does is keeps track of the air date for upcoming episodes from information from tvrage.com(I think you use tv.com?). It keeps this information of upcoming episodes, and searches for those episodes when the show starts airing(obviously will not find anything until the show goes off, but this is minor.) It searches until the episode is found.
4. Auto-generate xml feeds ----- TED auto generates the search feed for each Series and adds episode and filter information to search for each episode. This allows for more accurate downloads
5. All of these downloading features wrapped up for NZB downloads ------ I use newsgroups for alot of things, and have my programs set to watch for new NZB's as well, which could easily be wrapped up, not to mention I don't have to worry about seeds when using my NZB downloader, .
I'm no programmer, so I can't help out(wish I could!) but the Media Browser community has a lot of active programmers who make that program better each day, many of which I'm sure would be interested in making this program better when I introduce it to them. I'll be happy to put in words to maybe get some of these features added or along the way!
Thanks for such a great program!
Also, as a side note, I saw the need for a better bug tracker. I am going to talk to the dev of Media Browser to see if he'll give you access to his code for his bug tracker. He just implemented it on his site and it is great, allows for easy access to bugs/feature requests, making life easier for everyone! Check it out here: www.community.mediabrowser.tv
My problem is I have found a few apps that do part of what I want, but none that do it all. Currently I'm using a program called MetaBrowser to organize my tv shows, along with my movies. It works off of TheTVDB and TheMovieDB to get its information and saves it in mymovies.xml format. This is used by a Media Center Plug-in called Media Browser(if you haven't heard of it check it out.) My TV shows come from TED(Torrent Episode Downloader) which is great but sometimes unreliable.
Basically, TED downloads the torrents into a watched folder, Bittorrent picks them up and downloads them to a "new shows" folder that Metabrowser watches, processes the shows, renames them to my specs and places them in the correct folder, along with the metadata(series.xml) and cover art(folder.jpg) and fan-art(backdrop.jpg). I then run another program called StarkCovers to give the cover art a little life.
As you probably see, TVRename does a lot of this, and some other things that are pretty cool. Currently, I cannot check for missing episodes, or have a RSS of when to watch from any of the programs I use.
SO now to the feature requests.
1. Gather metadata and save in series.xml format -------- I know this is being done in a XBMC format, I don't know how similar these are, if someone can give me an example? Would be nice to have the switch.
2. Add automatic downloading ------ TED does this by matching your preferences to files, by filtering by 720 and such, choosing the torrent with the most seeders and can also filter by min and max file size. These can be saved to a specific folder that Utorrent or Bittorrent watches, then they save those to the appropriate folder. TV Rename can then watch that folder and add automatically, processing for all cover art/fan art and renaming, as well as getting Metadata.
3. Search on specific date/time ----- Another thing TED does is keeps track of the air date for upcoming episodes from information from tvrage.com(I think you use tv.com?). It keeps this information of upcoming episodes, and searches for those episodes when the show starts airing(obviously will not find anything until the show goes off, but this is minor.) It searches until the episode is found.
4. Auto-generate xml feeds ----- TED auto generates the search feed for each Series and adds episode and filter information to search for each episode. This allows for more accurate downloads
5. All of these downloading features wrapped up for NZB downloads ------ I use newsgroups for alot of things, and have my programs set to watch for new NZB's as well, which could easily be wrapped up, not to mention I don't have to worry about seeds when using my NZB downloader, .
I'm no programmer, so I can't help out(wish I could!) but the Media Browser community has a lot of active programmers who make that program better each day, many of which I'm sure would be interested in making this program better when I introduce it to them. I'll be happy to put in words to maybe get some of these features added or along the way!
Thanks for such a great program!
Also, as a side note, I saw the need for a better bug tracker. I am going to talk to the dev of Media Browser to see if he'll give you access to his code for his bug tracker. He just implemented it on his site and it is great, allows for easy access to bugs/feature requests, making life easier for everyone! Check it out here: www.community.mediabrowser.tv