Never Thought I Would Do It…
…but I redid my entire directory structure of my movie collection, effectively making my MyMovies database useless since all the links are broken now. After some consideration, I decided to go with a file-based video information system so that I could use Video Browser as my library manager in Media Center. It’s not as fully-featured, from an information standpoint, as MyMovies, but it’s coded in MCML and is much nicer looking. I also find managing my collection easier since I don’t have to worry about forgetting to link a movie in MyMovie’s Collection Manager. Not to mention I find it much faster than browsing MyMovies’ HTML-based interface.
Don’t get my wrong, I think MyMovies is a fabulous program and I’ll probably be sorry once the MCML frontend comes out. However, I’m just tired of managing that database. Anyway, here is a screenshot of the poster view within Video Browser:
Nice, right? OML is looking nice also, but it uses a localized database for each client and doesn’t support directory structure XML systems, so until it does, I think I’ll stick with this.
That’s about it for now. Re-doing all of that took most of the past week, which is why I’ve been AWOL. I’m hoping next week I’ll get to order my new 26″ KDS LCD.
Recent Entries
- Move the MyMovies FileStorage Location.
- Video Browser Genre Images.
- Bye-bye Comcast Digital Voice!
- Moving the MyMovies Database.
- Plugin updates.
- Unable to remove items in library.
- Pause bug after screensaver activation is back.
- Video Browser: A plugin not to be ignored.
- VMCNetflix new beta.
- VMC plugin black hole?
