Does anyone know of a media manager that is Mac friendly?  I've read of Media Companion and Ember but I haven't seen much as far as Mac goes.  I'm trying to speed up XBMC and I really don't feel like going through 1200 movies individually to get fanart/folder art   

Give Plex a go.

 

By the way, if you have everything named following the various media naming standards XMBC or Plex will get all your meta data for you. You will get some miss hits, but usually they are easy to fix manually. Also, you are going to have to be a bit patient as it will take some time to download data from that many movies. Some sites will throttle if pressed.

On XBMC the default scraper is lousy. Use IMDB instead. The movies need to be named "movie name (year).xxx" Movie folders: "Movie name (year)"

  I'm sorry, I might not have been clear as to what I was looking for...

 

  I have Plex on my Mac and it's great, however the Zbox (did NOT have a OS so it's running an OpenELEC vers of XBMC) I have hooked up to my TV can't use Plex (I wish it could) so I'm using XBMC.  As far as where it looks, I have it set to scan TMDB.com (really makes no difference between TMDB or IMDB, I tried it  ) and my folders are set up correctly.  I'm looking for something that will scan my media (all stored on my unRaid) and automatically download fanart/folder art so I don't have to manually do it for all 1300+ movies.

 

  The reason I'm looking to do so is, besides ease of back up, to speed up XBMC.  I have a SSD installed so initial power on is quick but scrolling through all my movies (Confluence skin with Media Info) sometimes it takes a few seconds for the Fanart to come up with the appropriate movie.  If I skip through quickly I can get 5 or 6 movies through before XBMC catches up with Fanart.  I have noticed though that Fanart stored locally (without XBMC having to scrape it) loads MUCH quicker (maybe a sec or so). 

 

After reading http://lifehacker.com/#!5505849/how-to-whip-your-movie-and-tv-show-art-into-shape-for-xbmc-and-boxee I figured a media manager would be what I was looking for, however, Media Companion and Ember both do not work with a Mac (my primary computer).  Anyone know of a media manager that is Mac friendly?  Or am I out of luck and have to download all my fanart manually? 

 

Thanks again! 

 

Found this. Went looking just for the op.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=91146

Its been a while since I used xbmc, but isn't there an option to store your meta data nfo file, poster etc with the media? I remember from somewhere this was popular as they would use xbmc to scrape the meta data and then have other player software read off the scrapped meta data straight from where the media was stored.

 

 

Edit : I don't know if this will work with your setup. But, there is a plug in for xbmc called PleXBMC that allows xbmc to access PMS.

Thanks a lot Kizer! I'll give it a look through a little later tonight.  I was on XBMC forums earlier today and came across a few but their websites looked a little out of date (404 and what not).  I also saw Universal Media Compainion (UMX but they haven't updated their site since Nov.)

 

Jamerson9, I haven't looked too deep into XBMC to see if it can create the NFO and dl/store the art.  Although I don't see why not, if it has to download it anyways, why couldn't it save the jpg file? *shrug*  I'll look at that later as well, after the kiddo goes to sleep.  Thanks for the idea!

Played with Messy Media Manager a little bit and it's pretty slick.  Trial version lets you manage 10 movies a day for 10 days.  So a trial of 100 movies.  $10 gets you full copy, unlimited use.  It's not 100% automated, you still have to go through each movie but it is pretty nice and easy.  Scrapes TMDB for everything, can't change where you want it to look.  Also does not scrape category (*EDIT* It does not scrape GENRE, in the Genre it simply says "category0")   Other than that though it is pretty easy to use, a little slow at times but with so many movies loaded to it (1200) I can understand the bog down. 

XBMC allows you to export the library.

Export Video Library

Exports the Library database to either one, or multiple XML files. When you initiate an export, XBMC will ask if you want to export to separate or a single file.

When exporting to a single file XBMC will bring up a browser dialog where you select where you want it exported. XBMC will then create a subdirectory with the resulting xml file plus all thumbnails and fanart, watched status will be exported to the xml file.

If you choose to export to separate files you will also be asked if you want to export thumbnails and fanart as well.

The resulting XML nfo file and associated image files will then be exported to the location of the corresponding video files.

 

 

See: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Import_-_Export_Library

XBMC allows you to export the library.

Export Video Library

Exports the Library database to either one, or multiple XML files. When you initiate an export, XBMC will ask if you want to export to separate or a single file.

When exporting to a single file XBMC will bring up a browser dialog where you select where you want it exported. XBMC will then create a subdirectory with the resulting xml file plus all thumbnails and fanart, watched status will be exported to the xml file.

If you choose to export to separate files you will also be asked if you want to export thumbnails and fanart as well.

The resulting XML nfo file and associated image files will then be exported to the location of the corresponding video files.

 

 

 

 

Thank you!  That's a LOT quicker than using Messy, I learn something new here everyday!