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Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:27:10 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Both - clearing of cache folder. Pro's Cons?
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - XBMC TMDB Scraper not renaming movie per preferences.
Movie - rescrape all renames files, but doesn't remove originally named files.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.
Movies - Missing Local Actors Filter - Finds movies missing actors in the '.actors' folder.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:52:07 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Both - clearing of cache folder. Pro's Cons?
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.
Movies - Missing Local Actors Filter - Finds movies missing actors in the '.actors' folder.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:50:50 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Both - clearing of cache folder. Pro's Cons?
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - tag function to operation in multi-selected mode.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.
Movies - Missing Local Actors Filter - Finds movies missing actors in the '.actors' folder.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:31:42 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Both - clearing of cache folder. Pro's Cons?
MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - tag function to operation in multi-selected mode.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.
Movies - Missing Local Actors Filter - Finds movies missing actors in the '.actors' folder.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:56:59 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Movie - Add option to disable download of actor image for browser tab, if no local image available. - AnotherPhil -> VBat - I've added a new movie filter to find movies missing locally stored actors in the .actors folder.
MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - tag function to operation in multi-selected mode.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.
Movies - Missing Local Actors Filter - Finds movies missing actors in the '.actors' folder.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: Home

AnotherPhil — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:26:25 GMT

Media Companion is the original free to use Movie/TV Show manager and organizer that offers full XBMC integration.

Simply put, Media Companion offers the facility to gather information from the Internet and make this information available to you in an organized manner.
The information collected includes such things as posters, backdrops, plot summary, actors and actor images, ratings etc, and are placed with your video files for easy addition to your library.

New Release 3.566b (2013-05-12)

See DOWNLOADS tab for details.

Polite request: If you post a review and within that, raise an issue. Please raise an issue! Thanks.

If you receive episode not found or have scraping issues, please ensure your Firewall allows MC to get out. Also allow mc_com.exe.

Known Issues
Some, but getting fewer and fewer. Please see the To Do List

Revision History

*** Media Companion requires .NET 4.0 Client (available from Microsoft Download possibly optional download). The .NET Full Framework is no longer required (but can still be used)

Media Companion Currently supports Movies and TV Shows.
Movie Features include.

Scrape movie information from IMDB using the inbuilt scraper
Scrape movie information from IMDb or TVDb using XBMC scraper.
Download movie posters from any of IMDb, TMDb, IMPA, and MPDB.
Download movie backdrops from TMDb.
Download movie trailers from IMDb.
View and edit all obtained data.
Saving of Media Tags in NFO.
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function, movies need to be in individual folders)
Auto-Rename using custom or set parameters
Search and browse movies using a selection of filters and searches.
Export to HTML movie details & artwork, with customizable templates.

TV Show features include.

Choice of inbuilt TVDb scraper or XBMC TVDb scraper
Automatically download information for TV Shows and episodes from TVDb.
Download actor images from either TVDb or IMDb.
Download and select poster for Show and individual seasons.
Download episode screen shot.
Create screen shot if download is not available.
Automatically rename episodes using set or custom parameters
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function)
Saving of Media Tags in NFO
Display episodes missing from your collection.
Display episodes in aired date order (so you can see where the specials fit in)
Export to HTML TV details with customizable templates.

Home Movie features:

Addition of home made or movies with no downloading information
Separate Home Movie Folder
Setting Title of Home Movie, and Sort Title
Outline, Staring and year fields.
Creation of Screen-Shot

Command-line function
Use mc_com.exe in a batch file for automatic movie & TV scraping.

mc_com.exe -m Scrapes metadata for new movies
mc_com.exe –e Scrapes metadata for new TV episodes
mc_com.exe –x Export Movielist as html selected template

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:19:49 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Movie - Add option to disable download of actor image for browser tab, if no local image available.
MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - tag function to operation in multi-selected mode.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:18:45 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Movie - Add option to disable download of actor image for browser tab, if no local image available.
MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - tag function to operation in multi-selected mode.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:28:36 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Movie - Add option to disable download of actor image for browser tab, if no local image available.
MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movie - tag function to operation in multi-selected mode.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
Movie - Preliminary tag function added - currently only single movie saving.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:59:33 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

Movie - Add option to disable download of actor image for browser tab, if no local image available.
MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:12:30 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:12:07 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over the task bar.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:54:55 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and show over the task bar.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:16:33 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.
General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

New:

Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and show over the task bar.

Revision History

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

vbat99 — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:46:32 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movie - Source filter to have "Missing" or "-None-" option.
Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.
General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

New:

Revision History

Updated Wiki: Home

vbat99 — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:44:33 GMT

New Release 3.566b (2013-05-12)

See DOWNLOADS tab for details.

Polite request: If you post a review and within that, raise an issue. Please raise an issue! Thanks.

If you receive episode not found or have scraping issues, please ensure your Firewall allows MC to get out. Also allow mc_com.exe.

Known Issues
Some, but getting fewer and fewer. Please see the To Do List

Revision History

*** Media Companion requires .NET 4.0 Client (available from Microsoft Download possibly optional download). The .NET Full Framework is no longer required (but can still be used)

Media Companion Currently supports Movies and TV Shows.
Movie Features include.

Scrape movie information from IMDB using the inbuilt scraper
Scrape movie information from IMDb or TVDb using XBMC scraper.
Download movie posters from any of IMDb, TMDb, IMPA, and MPDB.
Download movie backdrops from TMDb.
Download movie trailers from IMDb.
View and edit all obtained data.
Saving of Media Tags in NFO.
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function, movies need to be in individual folders)
Auto-Rename using custom or set parameters
Search and browse movies using a selection of filters and searches.
Export to HTML movie details & artwork, with customizable templates.

TV Show features include.

Choice of inbuilt TVDb scraper or XBMC TVDb scraper
Automatically download information for TV Shows and episodes from TVDb.
Download actor images from either TVDb or IMDb.
Download and select poster for Show and individual seasons.
Download episode screen shot.
Create screen shot if download is not available.
Automatically rename episodes using set or custom parameters
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function)
Saving of Media Tags in NFO
Display episodes missing from your collection.
Display episodes in aired date order (so you can see where the specials fit in)
Export to HTML TV details with customizable templates.

Home Movie features:

Addition of home made or movies with no downloading information
Separate Home Movie Folder
Setting Title of Home Movie, and Sort Title
Outline, Staring and year fields.
Creation of Screen-Shot

Command-line function
Use mc_com.exe in a batch file for automatic movie & TV scraping.

mc_com.exe -m Scrapes metadata for new movies
mc_com.exe –e Scrapes metadata for new TV episodes
mc_com.exe –x Export Movielist as html selected template

Updated Wiki: Home

vbat99 — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:41:20 GMT

New Release 3.566b (2013-05-12)

See DOWNLOADS tab for details.

Polite request: If you post a review and within that, raise an issue. Please raise an issue! Thanks.

If you receive episode not found or have scraping issues, please ensure your Firewall allows MC to get out. Also allow mc_com.exe.

Known Issues
Some, but getting fewer and fewer. Please see the To Do List

Revision History

*** Media Companion requires .NET 4.0 Client (available from Microsoft Download possibly optional download). The .NET Full Framework is no longer required (but can still be used)

Media Companion Currently supports Movies and TV Shows.
Movie Features include.

Scrape movie information from IMDB using the inbuilt scraper
Scrape movie information from IMDb or TVDb using XBMC scraper.
Download movie posters from any of IMDb, TMDb, IMPA, and MPDB.
Download movie backdrops from TMDb.
Download movie trailers from IMDb.
View and edit all obtained data.
Saving of Media Tags in NFO.
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function, movies need to be in individual folders)
Auto-Rename using custom or set parameters
Search and browse movies using a selection of filters and searches.
Export to HTML movie details & artwork, with customizable templates.

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TV Show features include.

Choice of inbuilt TVDb scraper or XBMC TVDb scraper
Automatically download information for TV Shows and episodes from TVDb.
Download actor images from either TVDb or IMDb.
Download and select poster for Show and individual seasons.
Download episode screen shot.
Create screen shot if download is not available.
Automatically rename episodes using set or custom parameters
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function)
Saving of Media Tags in NFO
Display episodes missing from your collection.
Display episodes in aired date order (so you can see where the specials fit in)
Export to HTML TV details with customizable templates.

Home Movie features:

Addition of home made or movies with no downloading information
Separate Home Movie Folder
Setting Title of Home Movie, and Sort Title
Outline, Staring and year fields.
Creation of Screen-Shot

Command-line function
Use mc_com.exe in a batch file for automatic movie & TV scraping.

mc_com.exe -m Scrapes metadata for new movies
mc_com.exe –e Scrapes metadata for new TV episodes
mc_com.exe –x Export Movielist as html selected template

Updated Wiki: Revision History

AnotherPhil — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:13:30 GMT

Current Release

MC 3.566b 2013-05-12

Fixes:

Movies - Bug thrown if exactly 1 movie in collection

MC 3.565b 2013-05-12

Fixes:

Movies - Bug causing an error to be thrown if no movies are setup

Previous Releases

MC 3.564b 2013-05-12

Fixes:

Movies - Filters tab - Filters splitter pane being shown when should have been hidden.
Movies - Details pane - Tweak details pane so RHS columns re-size.
Movies - Filters not shown\positioned correctly on start-up.
Movies - Filter wasn't always resetting

New:

Movies - Add scroll bar to filter list . Issue request
Movies - Filters -> Updated to use new multi-select drop-down checklist box
Movies - Logic added to drop-down checklist box to avoid control displaying off screen & to size drop-down width to accommodate longest item
Movies - Add multi\single mode toggle button to applicable filters
Movies - Votes slider - Changed to use the movies relative number of votes instead of absolute value to determine filtered movies. So selecting a 25% range on the slider now returns 25% of your movies, regardless of selected range position.

MC 3.563b 2013-05-06

Fixes:
Movie - fixed always renaming movie.
Movie - If movie manually deleted and Mc started, receive an error message.

New:
Movie - Added Filter for missing certificate.
Movie - Added Filter for certificates. To compliment this filter, there's a new file called 'CertificateMappings.xml' in the Classes folder that you can manually edit to customise the filter items. See file for usage info.
Movie filters : Reset filter by clicking on title.

MC 3.562b - 2013-05-01

New - TV - Saving of ExtraFanart.
New - Movie - Allow turn off root folder check
New - Movie - Genre filter changed for new Tri-state drop-down listbox. You can now include & exclude multiple genres. E.g. Include Action, exclude Animation, Horror. The intention is to change all the filters (where appropriate) to this new format
New - Movie - option to save as fanart.jpg or poster.jpg instead of moviename-poster, etc, if movie is in own folder. Note: If Pre-Frodo or Both is selected, moviename.tbn and moviename-fanart.jpg will still be saved for backwards compatibility.
New - Movie - Scraper tab options change around.
Fixed - Don't overwrite artwork not sticking properly.
Fixed - Movie - Moved options to correct tab's, better uniformity of options.
Fixed - Movie - Set filtering does not work when the set contains a parenthesis - Issue
Fixed - Movie - Filters sometimes saving all as False even though set to True, inc Issue 907
Fixed - Movie - Number of audio tracks filter wasn't getting reset
Fixed - Movie - filename starting with dot underscore are now not scraped.
Fixed - Movie - movie.nfo was being ignored, so these movies were being rescraped.

MC 3.561b - 2013-04-19

Fix for fanart selection not displaying, Movies.

MC 3.560b - 2013-04-19

New - Movie - Option to save as either extrathumbs or extrafanart or both.
New - Added ignoring of ds_store files
New - TV - Ignore any filename starting with "dot underscore" (no space between)
New - TV - Icon present if show is missing episodes and Display Missing Episodes is selected.
New - TV - Icon present on season if season is missing episodes.
Fixed - Home Movies - Added Manual Path option.
Fixed - Movie - Fixed save preferences for poster.jpg option.
Fixed - Movie - if 'Download Trailer' selected, auto-select 'Save Trailer URL'.
Fixed - Movie - Retain 'CreateDate' when rescraping.
Fixed - Movie - Catch error if save selected but no movies selected.
Fixed - Movie - Fixed Max Genre now displays All Available when restarting MC
Fixed - Movie - Trailer url scraping error caught is no IMDBid in movie nfo.
Fixed - TV - Fixed removal of missing folders also removes root folder.
Fixed - TV - Fixed issue that's keeps Missing Episode data from being displayed after downloaded
Fixed - TV - Fixed Missing Aired Episodes.

MC 3.559b - 2013-04-14

New - Movie - Added option for 'poster.jpg' if movie in folder.
New - Tv - If new season episode scraped, check for new season artwork
Fixed - Tv - If Frodo Only, Missing posters would appear for all Tv Shows. Fixed.
Fixed - Tv - Missing posters Frodo, brings all shows as missing.
Fixed - Tv - Runtime wasn't following the rules if preference for no "min" selected.
Fixed - Tv - Removed absolute path reference to Thumbnail from multi-episode nfo.
Fixed - Tv - Season-all - selected artwork only through TVDB.
Fixed - Tv - Season-all edenart - Saves only poster or only banner to season-all.tbn as per preferences.
Fixed - Home Movies - Fixed auto-screenshot during search for new videos.
Fixed - Movie - Added movie title in progress bar during scrape.

MC 3.558b - 2013-04-06

Fixed - Movie - Poster Browser (Alternative) not saving as moviename-poster.jpg - vbat99
Fixed - Movie - Wall cache now updates if using Alternative Poster Browser - vbat99
Fixed - Movie - Rating for countries that use a comma where we use a full-stop.
Fixed - Movie - Rescrape, if TMDB unavailable, error caught.
Fixed - Movie - Rescrape error if missing nfo file.
Fixed - OfflineMovie - Use of fanart as offline video background - vbat99
Fixed - HomeMovie - Fixed listbox size.
Fixed - HomeMovie - Re-added Plot, Year and Stars fields.
Fixed - HomeMovie - Correctly remove Homemovie root folder, rescanning homemovie list.
Fixed - HomeMovie - Added Refresh Button.
Changed - All Preferences Tabs - Moved "Apply Changes" button to L/H Side. This means whether MC is run in Window or Full Screen, "Apply Changes" button is always in the same place, not pushed to far right if full-screen.

MC 3.557b - 2013-04-01

Couple of fixes to rating to fix missing movies issue.

MC 3.555b & MC 3.556B - 2013-03-31

Emergency Fixes to release, by issue in Cache Loading etc.

MC 3.554b - 2013-03-31

New - Movie - Complete Frodo support for DVD structured folders
New - Movie - MkvMerge Gui integration - Right click in movie list to select. Set path in General Preferences
New - Movie - Movie play button
New - Movie - Filter - Number of audio tracks
New - Movie - Slider filters - Rating, Year & Votes. Left click to set\change range, Right click to move range & Double click to reset
New - General - Check for Update on Help drop list
New - General - Support DTS MA and DTS HRA tags in Audio stream details.
Fixed - TV - If Set to Save TV Show thumbnails as banners, no image displayed if Pre-Frodo selected
Fixed - TV - Broken Season artwork downloading while scraping new TV Show
Fixed - Movie - Remove "See full summary »" from scraped outline
Fixed - Movie - Re-display movie details after scrape to show changes
Fixed - Movie - Loading movie cache was only loading 1 audio track

MC 3.553b - 2013-03-24

New - Feature - Movie - New filters added. R-click filter window to disable/enable display of any filter.
New - Feature - Tv - Added Mark as Watched or UnWatched Show, Season or episode to Context menu.
New - Feature- Movie - Expand\collapse movie filters panel by double clicking on the splitter bar
New - Feature - Added - Check for new version at start up. Can be disabled in General Preferences
Fixed - TV - Selected default language now correctly scrapes new shows.
Fixed - Movie - Rescrape All clear's Watched and Source tags.
Fixed - Movie - remove html link from Plot. See issue.
Fixed - Movie - video file with full-stop in name only scrapes up to the full-stop.
Fixed - Movie/Tv - Aspect tag correctly filled with value like 1.78.
Fixed - Movie/Tv - DurationInSeconds correctly filled, keep in line with XBMC.

MC 3.552b - 2013-03-15

New - Movie - Missing poster, Prev/Next buttons available. Movie List refreshed.
New - Movie - Fanart Prev/Next for missing fanart.
New - Movie - Fanart selection scrollable by mouse wheel.
New - Tv - If missing folders are found, allows these folders to be removed from Separate folder list.
New - Tv - Button added to TV Folders for search missing folders and remove.
Fixed - TV - Episode runtime scraping from file.
Fixed - TV - correctly refreshes the UI for Actors.
Fixed - Movie - Runtime displayed correctly from either scraper or media stream details.
Fixed - Movie - Stream duration does not overwrite scraped runtime.
Fixed - Movie - Refresh Cache and UI if "Changed Movie".
Fixed - Movie - Refreshes to correct movie. Doesn't auto change to next movie when Save is selected.

Updated Wiki: Home

AnotherPhil — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:11:52 GMT

New Release 3.566b (2013-05-12)

See DOWNLOADS tab for details.

Polite request: If you post a review and within that, raise an issue. Please raise an issue! Thanks.

If you receive episode not found or have scraping issues, please ensure your Firewall allows MC to get out. Also allow mc_com.exe.

Known Issues
Some, but getting fewer and fewer. Please see the To Do List

Revision History

*** Media Companion requires .NET 4.0 Client (available from Microsoft Download possibly optional download). The .NET Full Framework is no longer required (but can still be used)

Media Companion Currently supports Movies and TV Shows.
Movie Features include.

Scrape movie information from IMDB using the inbuilt scraper
Scrape movie information from IMDb or TVDb using XBMC scraper.
Download movie posters from any of IMDb, TMDb, IMPA, and MPDB.
Download movie backdrops from TMDb.
Download movie trailers from IMDb.
View and edit all obtained data.
Saving of Media Tags in NFO.
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function, movies need to be in individual folders)
Auto-Rename using custom or set parameters
Search and browse movies using a selection of filters and searches.
Export to HTML movie details & artwork, with customizable templates.

TV Show features include.

Choice of inbuilt TVDb scraper or XBMC TVDb scraper
Automatically download information for TV Shows and episodes from TVDb.
Download actor images from either TVDb or IMDb.
Download and select poster for Show and individual seasons.
Download episode screen shot.
Create screen shot if download is not available.
Automatically rename episodes using set or custom parameters
Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function)
Saving of Media Tags in NFO
Display episodes missing from your collection.
Display episodes in aired date order (so you can see where the specials fit in)
Export to HTML TV details with customizable templates.

Home Movie features:

Addition of home made or movies with no downloading information
Separate Home Movie Folder
Setting Title of Home Movie, and Sort Title
Outline, Staring and year fields.
Creation of Screen-Shot

Command-line function
Use mc_com.exe in a batch file for automatic movie & TV scraping.

mc_com.exe -m Scrapes metadata for new movies
mc_com.exe –e Scrapes metadata for new TV episodes
mc_com.exe –x Export Movielist as html selected template

Updated Wiki: RoadMap

AnotherPhil — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:24:43 GMT

Roadmap & To Do List

High Priority

MC - Check MC detects nfo's not created by itself and renames them *.info
Movies - XBMC TMDB Scraper Broken - Image of Error
TV - Speed up TVCache loading time. See discussion. - HueyHQ

Medium Priority

Movies - XBMC IMDB Scraper failure, uri string too long.
Movies - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
TV - Multi-episode not listing in TVShow - Main browser. - HueyHQ
TV - Cater for OS rendering differences (XP to 8).

Low Priority

Movies - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.
General - Enable High DPI support in MC., Link.
Movies - Full/Brief on Log Window isn't changing from Full to Brief or back to Full. - AnotherPhil - I suggest we remove the Brief option...
TV - Display Watched/Unwatched indicator in TV list window
TV - Fix sorting of episodes

Feature Requests

Movies - To be able to rename a folder the same as the renamed movie? (if movies in separate folders) - HueyHQ
Movies - Download subtitles if non present.
Movies - Batch Rescrape, Autoscrape extrafanart/extrathumb, if option selected.
TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
TV - Detail line in Tv Shows, Episodes, to show images for codec, resolution, audio etc.
Movies - Blu-Ray movies structure support.
TV - Manual nfo creation as TV Show. ie, Pick a Folder and manually add the tvshow.nfo data, as well as manually add the episode data, with create screenshot.
TV - if Seasons are year, not displaying artwork.
Movies - Apply "Clean Filename Settings" to Folders, IF, Use Folder Name for Scraping is selected.

New & Fixed for next release

Fixes:

New:

Revision History