![]() Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets. Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Thankfully because you’re scraping the data and storing it with your media, you only have to do it once! Just like with the movies if you scrap a TV show and you’re really happy with the results don’t forget to right click and Lock the entry so that it doesn’t accidently get rescraped in the future. Unlike movies where EMM needs to scrape only a few images, TV show scraping involves grabbing multiple seasons worth of cover and fan art, episode summaries, episode screen grabs, and additional information. Scraping for a big show with multiple seasons and hundreds of episodes can take a few minutes-Buffy the Vampire Slayer took a good 10 minutes worth of scraping, for example. You can highlight multiple shows and then select (re)scrape to scrape them all, but you’ll still be prompted when it’s done with each show to make selections for the next show in the list. As a result you’ll need to right click and (Re)scrape each TV show. There are a few extra steps involved in the process for TV Shows such as selecting the language the show is in, grabbing season thumbnails, and then of course the season/episode scraping. The big difference between the Movies and TV Shows interface is that you can’t bulk scrape your TV shows. You just click on it and browse your TV show listings. The TV Shows tab is located right next to the Movies tab in the main interface. Once you’ve set up a test folder for your movies do the same for your TV shows. Once you feel confident with EMM then you can switch the source back to your main media folder. ![]() This way you can get familiar with EMM without risking making sweeping and hard to repair changes to your entire media collection. We selected a few movies from our collection and put them specifically in a folder labeled /EMM Test/. NOTE: We highly, strongly, passionately recommend you copy a few of your movie directories as a test. Finally Use Folder Name for Initial Listing should be checked so EMM will use the folder names to pull the movie names before the initial scraping. 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. Only Detect One One Movie From Each Folder is critically important for most of the thumbnail and artwork functionality in XBMC. Since we keep all our movies in a simple one-movie-per-folder configuration, we left this unchecked. Scan Recursively instructs EMM to dig down through folder directories and look for movies in sub-folders. Click on Add button, name your source, enter the source path, and set your source options. Language selection aside, the first real prompt you’ll come across is a request for the location of your movie files. It’s tedious and there’s no reason you should do it. On top of waiting for the media collection to scrape you then have to go through and correct the errors all over again. Scraping can take hours on a large media collection. 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. You know what that means? If you turf your media center and have to reinstall, all that data has to be rescraped. Further more nearly every media center stores the data it scrapes locally. Unfortunately media scrapers range from decent to downright crappy and correcting their mistakes using your HTPC remote or a media center keyboard is tedious. Why would you want one if your media center already has built in media scraping? Most media centers do have some sort of scraper built in-a scraper is a small script that combs through online databases like the Internet Movie Database to look for media matches. So what is a media manager? A media manager is simply an application that catalogs your media and writes images and metadata to the directory the media is stored in so that media center applications can access that data in order to display the correct information for the movie (ratings, reviews, cast listings, etc.) and media for the movie (box art, movie posters, fan art, etc.).
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