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You can run XBMC on windows and use VLC as a back end server pulling the tuner stream, I'm pretty sure there's a plug in for XBMC that supports Myth as well.

Mediacentre Master will pull all the media details, artwork etc and make an XBMC compatible XML file so you can browse by genre, year, actor etc

Maybe use a third party media manager to do the scanning/scraping first? I use Media Center Master. Point it to the folder with your media and ask to fetch metadata and prep for XBMC in the options menu. It does its thing and then lists every sub-folder and highlights the ones it can't identify in red. There may be a better solution specific to anime but I find that it handles tv and movies pretty well.

Well after my library started getting somewhat big I built a raid. I have a 6x1tb raid-z along with a few scratch drives in a box running openindiana... but most people just use linux and raid5. (Actually a drive died for the first time earlier this week, and I got a new one in the mail a few hours ago and it's currently being resilvered into the array... been having pseudotv withdrawal)

Anyway, xbmc will be able to scrape metadata off of the file you listed, but I prefer to use sickbeard which automatically downloads my shows, renames them, gets metadata, adds them to the right folder, and auto-updates xbmc with the info while sending a notification to my phone when it's done.

Same with movies, it can do it automatically, but for foreign movies I prefer to bypass xbmc metadata and use something like MediaCenterMaster to make sure it gets it right before I add it to my Movies folder that xbmc watches.

Sounds like you need MCM in your life.

Worked wonders for my archive, without having to worry about any scrapers/their issues or Kodi doing anything but reading my metadata/content on Android & WIN10.

You could make your Internet Browser and Torrent client point to some folder on D:\

For example, Firefox features <strong>such option</strong> in its configuration section. It may look different for different versions, but there you can select where it will put downloaded files.

Similar case with, let's say <strong>uTorrent</strong> - this screenshot is from older version, but it shows correct options.

My setup is like this: I have my media on a file server, and I have jailbroken AppleTV's running XBMC attached to my TVs. I like to do the scraping through Media Center Master on my computer rather than through XBMC's built-in scrapers because:

a) since I have multiple XBMC boxes, each box would have to scrape the information and artwork separately if I let XBMC do it

b) I like having more control over the scraping process so I can catch errors and so on.

c) if I switch to another kind of media center, like Boxee or MediaBrowser in Windows 7 on an HTPC or whatever, I won't have to re-scrape my files. This has actually paid off a lot because I originally started doing this with MediaBrowser in Vista on my old HTPC, then I used a Patriot Box Office nettop box for a while, and then most recently I switched to XBMC. But since all my metadata and artwork is saved with my movie files, I didn't have to re-scrape my entire collection every time I switched. In fact if I wanted I could use XBMC in my living room, my Patriot Box Office in my bedroom, and Windows Media Center in my den and they would all be able to read the same metadata stored with my media files if I wanted to. Not that I would of course - XBMC all the way!

Not sure I recommend my way for most people though. It's definitely the geeky way to do it, and there is a bit of a learning curve involved, much more so than just letting XBMC do everything for you - especially in your case since you only have one XBMC device.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I used to use Media Center Master for TV Show metadata, but now I let Sickbeard do everything for me, it's been a revelation. I only use Media Center Master for movies now.

I'd go 8GB, mostly because memory's so cheap.

My current media setup, which I am deeply in love with:

Windows 7 Media Center (which can be extended to XBox 360, not that you need that)

Media Browser Windows Media Center plug-in

Media Center Master for metadata management

Threw all my ripped media files into a folder, pointed Media Center Master at it, and voila - organized media library (movies and TV) in Media Browser.

> You should be able to choose the season of a show you want and have it automatically downloaded when it is available and set up to stream to some networked media device.

Let me introduce you to MediaCenterMaster, which has just such a feature (though the network streaming is all on you).

I have been using Media Center Master with pretty good results. I'm not 100% sold on it, and it is a little buggy at times, but it has yet to fail to retrieve meta data for my shows.

You may want to look into MediaBrowser "a plugin to Media Center" Its similar to XBMC I find it more refined and feature rich though also the onscreen ui when watching a movie is much nicer then XBMC including the seek bar.

You can just add directions/drives to section so you could have say for example 3 hd's all be movies all pointed to movies so you dont have to remember what movie is on what drive ect.

Anyway heres a link so you can check it out. http://www.mediabrowser.tv/

If you want a list of everything you may also want to add MCM media center master to the mix. It will aggrigate all the metadata and has a tool to output a .html with a very nice index of all your stuff including links to imdb tmdb so on.

http://www.mediacentermaster.com/

Hmm, files might not be moved if they are nested in another folder and the folder itself isn't done processing. More info, like VideoLogic version and exact file hierarchy would be good along with a log.

MCM support should follow very specific rules outlined here: http://www.mediacentermaster.com/support/

You can do it somewhat inside Kodi but it's really clunky.

More commonly, the metadata for each video is stored in a corresponding .nfo file. If you don't have .nfo files already, you can just export your library and that will create them.

You can edit that directly in notepad if you wish, or you could use a media manager like Ember or Media Center Master.

I use Media Center Master (not free when using the automation).
On top of its astounding media library metadata management and automation (the best out-there by far IMO), you can automate very easily your tv shows downloads with utorrent (follow the quick tutorial available on youtube), you can also periodically fetch new movies (based on their imdb ratings, quality etc).
The automation is not very much customizable though, and I'm not sure if you can use private trackers. I think you can use just the most popular public ones if I remember correctly.
Also the automation is kind of an hit and miss sometimes, though 95 % of the time it is accurate.

Anyway, I tried Sickbeard and Flexget too, but I didn't get past the initial setup, due mostly to the amount of new things to learn and not having really the willingness to.

I use Media center master it will rename and organize the files neatly for you and also add metadata to the organisation and plex reads it all perfect and it looks a lot nicer.

http://www.mediacentermaster.com/

This week do all of the work for you. Including renaming all files, putting them in the correct folder.

You can also set it up to download random movies, which you can set up to only download of it has certain imdb ratings or up.

It's by far the center piece to my htpc.

well i know media center master can auto-download trailers based on your media library but only in the premium version, even then i don't know if there's a way to format them correctly to work with plex without too much hassle.

Media Center Master is one such program that sets everything up for you via free online databases (even backdrops and thumbnails).

It only looks at the name of the folder that your content is in. It doesn't care what is in the folder.

I do believe others like Media Browser 3, Media Center Buddy, Plex will fetch based on a hash or id of some sort, so it needs to have appropriate files.

If you haven't figured out why Plex is lagging (something you should look into more like reading their official forums) and aren't able to actually use it as intended, you might as well just organize your media yourself. Look at both Media Preview and Media Center Master. Then just use Windows Explorer/Libraries to navigate and VLC to play.

If you're using the web client you'll have a browser opened, you can try Plex Home Theater and see if it lags there too. If it does, read up on transcoding (on their official support site and forums) and how to turn it off, hopefully that's all it is.

MediaCenterMaster might be what you're looking for. I used it for a long time to download metadata and rename TV shows/movies. It will even download and keep your shows up to date if that's something you wish to set up.

Not OP, but I have a simlar XBMC setup.

1. I use Media Center Master for downloading everything. It stores the files with the media itself, which I like. It supports XtraFanArt and even TV show music themes. It is, however, a pretty shitty application and I wish there was an alternative. It's gaudy, slow (.NET), sometimes buggy. The author is really good with helping out on his forums though. It's also expensive (he wants money every year for it).
2. MySQL for XBMC is fairly easy to set up. It allows for sharing of watched status, all library information, pausing in one room and continuing in another, etc. Pretty convenient if you have more than one XBMC install.

i know you have starting setting it up already but I wanted to throw my hat in for the 2 pieces i use to complete my media: media browser and media center master

media browser is similiar in function to xbmc but runs inside windows media center as a plug in. Lots of themes and views, and options. http://www.mediabrowser.tv/

media center master is a metadata manager that is amazing. Pulls overviews, cast pics, details, backdrops, trailers, anything for movies and tv shows. It has a TON of settings that include downloading torrents automatically. BUt it also has a function where if you set a watch folder it will read the file, find what show/movie it is, move it and all the metadata(backdrops, trailers, etc) to the library folder your designate. Then media browser reads all that automatically.
http://www.mediacentermaster.com/

WIth some rss feeds auto pulling new episodes into utrorrent and downloading to the media center master watch folder, my htpc practically runs itself. Both cost money but worth the investment.

I do this, except I used YANFOE, till a few weeks ago it stopped working, but I never got Ember MM to work satisfactory for me, so I use Media Center Master

Just a simple tool, but I love not having to worry about xbmc losing the library, and makes adding/rescanning things soo much quicker too.

Check out Media Center Master. There's a paid version but it doesn't get you anything you really need. It will organize your media by folders named after the show or movie and place some .nfo files to help XBMX/Boxee decide what the media files are (this isn't enabled by default but isn't hard to find in the settings).

It'll be a little bit of a headache to set up the first time if you've got a big library, but once it's got everything parsed adding new media is a breeze. Media Center Master works and plays really well with Plex and XBMC, and can make a world of difference with Boxee.

(One small word of warning, Boxee will sometimes look at a TV show's nfo files and make duplicate entries for a show. I haven't yet found a good fix for this :/ )