[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
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> On 06/18/2014 09:40 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
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> On 19 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
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> I have several files of TV shows and movies that I have moved into the Video
> Library that I'm trying to acquire metadata for. The file names are
> generally very intuitive for a human reader but evidently not for a metadata
> grabber. Is there a reasonable way to manually acquire metadata and attach
> it to the relevant file?





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> mike
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> The quickest way is to probably just go to either The TVDB or The Movie
> Database websites and find the correct inetref value and populate the
> inetref field in MythVideo manually. Or else try and determine what change
> needs to be made to the file naming to improve results.
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> What I was able to do was use the TVDB and the Movie Database to construct
> workable file names. I have some work yet to do but my video library
> appearance is definitely improving. Thanks for the suggestion.

For renaming, I highly recommend filebot. http://www.filebot.net/

As it guesses the names from the same databases as mythtv and xbmc use
in their databases it is pretty well guaranteed to succeed.