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Media Reader is a full-fledged application for the man
agement of local video media. It not only retrieves all sorts of interesting pieces of intformation about it transparentfly from the net but also catalogs them, renames them properly and makes all this information available to XBMC, the premier open source media center.
It is a Java app and has been tested on XP, Vista, Linux (Gnome and KDE) and Macintosh. It is likely to run on most Java supported platforms, although the installer only explicitly supports the aforementioned.
Full online help is available although it always lags a bit behind the development.
Further plans in the making are PDF file generation of all gathered contents and dynamic creation of a web site (local and/or remote) which cotnains all the information of your files (neatly illustrated with all pertinent artwork).
I am considering the integration of Netflix and New York Times movie review information since both are providing a neat API).
Feature list:
Some of the features:
Media Reader 0.46 Feature List
Get it here:
Background information:
I wrote an app that manages media files and generates nfo files for XBMC which you can edit. It is written in Java and runs under XP, Vista, Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS. I presume it will run on a Mac but I haven't tested that.
It is somewhat akin to Media Companion.
If you are wondering as to the purpose of Media Companion or this app it may not be useful to you.
It is alpha or beta just how you want to call it. I use it daily so it can't be all that bad. It has some online help but I am still struggling to get a decent tool for generating JavaHelp (damn you Robohelp!).
Some of the features:
[B]Media Reader 0.46 Feature List[/B]
Media Reader 0.46 Feature List
- Fully cross-platform compatible - Deploy on all flavors of Windows, Linux, Mac - anything that runs Java 1.6 and above.
- Movie and TV support
- Rotten Tomatoes support
- IMDB, IMPA, THETVDB and THEMOVIEDB.
- Unique IMPA search engine.
- Automatic scan of movie files and/or directories and subdirectories and classification according to thetvdb or IMDB.
- Consolidation of information from a variety of source.
- Fully interactive editing of all information, such as actors, plot, name, etc.
- User customizable pattern recognition expression for custom searches.
- User customizable speed vs. quality searches
- Scan of single files of directories.
- Manual information lookup (retrieve TV/Movie information even if you don't have the media file. Information can later be tied to a media file whenever it arrives.) Just key in some keywords and Media Reader will make some suggestions.
- Reconnection between files and data possible at any time.
- In-place and out-of place editing, i.e. edit information have it immediately reflected in XBMC support files or only update Media Reader's SQL database.
- Support for actor images, fan art, season and episodes thumbs/images, cover art.
- Built-in image browser.
- Automatic downloading of all artwork associated with a title. Make a slideshow!
- Real-time image retrieval.
- Image caching for faster browsing while keeping disk usage low.
- Built-in Gecko (Mozilla) engine. Browse to the IMDB page displaying the movie and grab the info.
- Download all artwork associated with a movie or TV series and create slideshows, etc.
- Manual adding of movie art, either locally (your hard drive) or from the Internet (enter URL or simply browse to the location you want Media Reader to pick up).
- Flexible multipart support and observation of subtitles.
- Simple and easy rescraping of movies / TV episodes if correction is needed.
- Media-actor editor (which actors appear in the series or movie) or global actor editing - correct actor spelling for all movies.
- Support for unlimited genres.
- Support for multiple files for the same IMDB ID. If you have extras for a title they will still be associated with the proper IMDB ID. Feel free to edit after scan. The scanners I know use the IMDBID as unique key and as such allow for only one entry.
- Support for TV series extras.
- Support to rename Handbrake generate TV episode files.
- Unidentifiable file support. If you have a file that Media Reader cannot find the title for, at least it will stick its name into the XBMC support file so it shows up in the library instead of giving you a blank.
- Automatic file rename and directory structure support: Toss a bunch of TV episodes into a root folder and watch Media Reader create a 'Series title - Season x - Episode title directory structure with series information, tvshow.nfo, fan art, season thumbs and episode nfos all with one mouse-click.
- Complete audit trace of all automated functions. If you wonder what the heck Media Reader added or did to your files - you have a detailed log.
- Chicken mode - If you are apprehensive of handing directories worth to Media Reader to process, let it work on just one file.
- Progress reporting: Scanning a few hundred files may take a while. Status bar indicator and progress text keeps you appraised of whether 'it's still doing something'.
- Support for incremental title support. Media Reader will find titles added between the last scan and now, add it to the database and generate the necessary XBMC files.
- Editable directory list for locations to one-click scan.
- Context sensitive functionality. Never use a menu-item only to be told that 'not available'.
- Play files right from application.
- Retrieve technical info (video/audio codec, size, bitrate, etc.) during scan.
- Generate Aeon studio tags.
- One-click nfo manual editor with syntax highlighting.
- Advancedsettings.xml editor via application. No XML knowledge required. Automatic validation of regular expressions. (Latest version, would like input)
- MP3 and OGG support pending including tag editing.
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