9/11/2023 0 Comments Ember vs tinymediamanagerUnfortunately media scrapers range from decent to downright crappy and correcting their mistakes using your HTPC remote or a media center keyboard is tedious. Further more nearly every media center stores the data it scrapes locally. You know what that means? If you turf your media center and have to reinstall, all that data has to be rescraped. Install another media center elsewhere in the house? Time to rescrape again or gamble at exporting and importing the data if your media center software even supports it. Scraping can take hours on a large media collection. On top of waiting for the media collection to scrape you then have to go through and correct the errors all over again. It’s tedious and there’s no reason you should do it. When you use a media manager all that information is stored with the movies and television shows. If you add a new media center to your home network all that media center needs to do is read the data from your media shares and load it instead of grinding away for hours rescraping your media.įor the following guide we’ll be using Ember Media Manager, a popular and open-source media management tool. Ember Media Manager was originally created for XBMC media centers but you can modify your settings to scrape data for other popular media center applications. Installing and Configuring Ember Media Manager For this tutorial, however, we’ll be using it to configure media for XBMC. Installing and configuring Ember Media Manager (EMM) is a breeze if you know the right settings to key in. In the following screenshots we’ll walk you through configuring EMM for an optimum media center experience. Remember, we’re setting things up for XBMC, you’ll need to tweak the settings to fit how your media center accesses movie information, thumbnails, and fan art. The first thing you want to do is skip the installation assistant tool found on the main Ember Media Manager web site. It’s a small 216kb installer that checks your computer OS version and then downloads the most current version for you. It’s been broken for some time (as official development on Ember Media Manager has been suspended). Instead visit the Ember Media Manager download directory at SourceForge and grab the appropriate version from the current release ( 1.2 as of this writing). Once you have the appropriate file just extract the contents wherever you want to store Ember Media Manager, open the directory, and run it for the first time. No true installation necessary-you could call it portable, but since it is so intimately tied to your media collection unless you cart it around on your media drive it’s portable in principle only. Language selection aside, the first real prompt you’ll come across is a request for the location of your movie files. Click on Add button, name your source, enter the source path, and set your source options. Scan Recursively instructs EMM to dig down through folder directories and look for movies in sub-folders. Since we keep all our movies in a simple one-movie-per-folder configuration, we left this unchecked. Only Detect One One Movie From Each Folder is critically important for most of the thumbnail and artwork functionality in XBMC. If you currently have all your movies jumbled in a big folder and not sorted into individual sub-folders we recommend doing a quick cleanup before proceeding.
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