[CLOSED] Movie folder.jpg files
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:38 pm
Paul,
I am continuing to work towards migrating from my Windows 7 HTPC with MyMovies, VCD, AnyDVD HD, and Total Media Theater to a Windows 10-based PC using MyMovies, VCD, AnyDVD HD and your CMC. I had to spend a few weeks improving my music collection because it consists largely of old LPs that I ripped to WAV files several years ago and they carried no metadata within each song file. But strangely they showed up looking good in the Windows Media Player and its library. But in your system the metadata was not being picked up. So I converted all of them to m4a files and added metadata to each song. Now they finally seem to work well. In the process, I found some helpful free programs that enabled me to convert all 5,800 wav files to m4a in one bulk process and a good free metadata editor. In case any readers have similar needs, I could pass on the names of these programs.
I am really writing to ask about the movie side of my collection. I have 500 movies, 25% standard definition VIDEO_TS folders, 55% Blu-ray movies stored as ISOs, and 20% ts files (movies recorded off of television that I told you about previously). A number of issues have arisen.
First, I know your system requires a Folder.jpg in each movie folder which is an image of the movie cover. Only about 5% of my collection has such files. Almost all of them have, as an example, Cleopratra.jpg or AffairToRemember.jpg. MyMovies has added mymovies-front.jpg and mymovies-back.jpg and fanart.jpg to most of my folders but not to all of them. So I went into the My Movies Collection, Tools>Settings>Metadata and set Store Front Cover as folder. Jpg, then cleaned all of my metadata as your How-To suggests, and then I updated all my metadata. For much of my collection this populated mymovies-front.jpg and mymovies-back.jpg and fanart.jpg to most folders but not to all. Those folders that did not have a folder.jpg file still do not have one. I had guessed that during the update, MyMovies would have generated a new folder.jpg but it didn’t.
So I began to research how to possibly create a DOS batch file process that would recursively cycle through each movie folder within a drive and copy the existing mymovies-front.jpg file to folder.jpg. I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. Some websites suggest using Windows File Explorer, highlighting the drive, then searching for ,mymovies-front.jpg. This will bring up a list of all of them in each folder. Then highlighting them all using ctrl-A, then renaming one of them folder.jpg. I thought if if I did this, I could then go back to collection Management and update meta-data again to get new mymovies-front.jpg re-established. But the result of the file Explorer renaming process did not create folder.jpg files, it created folder (1).jpg files in each folder. There was no way to make it rename the files as folder.jpg. So this lead me to suspect that the Windows operating system was not seeing me as having exclusive rights to the files and some other system process was running. At any rate, I now think I’m facing having to manually go into each of my 500 movie folders and copy the mymovie-front.jpg files to folder.jpg files so it will be recognized by your system. It does work when I do each folder manually. I just didn’t want to have to do this separately on 500 folders.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. By the way, how many CMC users do you now have?
Pete
I am continuing to work towards migrating from my Windows 7 HTPC with MyMovies, VCD, AnyDVD HD, and Total Media Theater to a Windows 10-based PC using MyMovies, VCD, AnyDVD HD and your CMC. I had to spend a few weeks improving my music collection because it consists largely of old LPs that I ripped to WAV files several years ago and they carried no metadata within each song file. But strangely they showed up looking good in the Windows Media Player and its library. But in your system the metadata was not being picked up. So I converted all of them to m4a files and added metadata to each song. Now they finally seem to work well. In the process, I found some helpful free programs that enabled me to convert all 5,800 wav files to m4a in one bulk process and a good free metadata editor. In case any readers have similar needs, I could pass on the names of these programs.
I am really writing to ask about the movie side of my collection. I have 500 movies, 25% standard definition VIDEO_TS folders, 55% Blu-ray movies stored as ISOs, and 20% ts files (movies recorded off of television that I told you about previously). A number of issues have arisen.
First, I know your system requires a Folder.jpg in each movie folder which is an image of the movie cover. Only about 5% of my collection has such files. Almost all of them have, as an example, Cleopratra.jpg or AffairToRemember.jpg. MyMovies has added mymovies-front.jpg and mymovies-back.jpg and fanart.jpg to most of my folders but not to all of them. So I went into the My Movies Collection, Tools>Settings>Metadata and set Store Front Cover as folder. Jpg, then cleaned all of my metadata as your How-To suggests, and then I updated all my metadata. For much of my collection this populated mymovies-front.jpg and mymovies-back.jpg and fanart.jpg to most folders but not to all. Those folders that did not have a folder.jpg file still do not have one. I had guessed that during the update, MyMovies would have generated a new folder.jpg but it didn’t.
So I began to research how to possibly create a DOS batch file process that would recursively cycle through each movie folder within a drive and copy the existing mymovies-front.jpg file to folder.jpg. I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. Some websites suggest using Windows File Explorer, highlighting the drive, then searching for ,mymovies-front.jpg. This will bring up a list of all of them in each folder. Then highlighting them all using ctrl-A, then renaming one of them folder.jpg. I thought if if I did this, I could then go back to collection Management and update meta-data again to get new mymovies-front.jpg re-established. But the result of the file Explorer renaming process did not create folder.jpg files, it created folder (1).jpg files in each folder. There was no way to make it rename the files as folder.jpg. So this lead me to suspect that the Windows operating system was not seeing me as having exclusive rights to the files and some other system process was running. At any rate, I now think I’m facing having to manually go into each of my 500 movie folders and copy the mymovie-front.jpg files to folder.jpg files so it will be recognized by your system. It does work when I do each folder manually. I just didn’t want to have to do this separately on 500 folders.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. By the way, how many CMC users do you now have?
Pete