Feature Requests

Locked TV Shows

Jocke69 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:47:33 GMT

It would be nice if you could make something to the show in the show list so you could see if the locked or not so you don't need to go to each one to see if it locket or not

Right Click - Edit Picture....

StormyKnight — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:16:39 GMT

I have come across a few occasions now where it would have been handy to right click on a poster or more often a fanart & open it in a picture editor for some adjustments... Several fanarts are mirror reversed & some are not the correct aspect ratio. Some could just do with a touch up.... Do you think Billy you could add a picture editor preference like the video player one & a context menu for the pictures so they can be edited externally? Cheers

Mouse Wheel enabled for the poster wall?

paybac — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:39:19 GMT

Possible to get the mouse wheel enabled for the poster wall?

Printout request

Billy Bunter — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:29:10 GMT

Billy, I not sure if this has been discussed previously, but I would love to have a function to print out a list of Films and TV shows. I know there is a HTML output for films with hyperlinks, but just a simple ‘coffee table’ printout would be very useful. As the weeks go on, the collection grows and grows! and keeping track is getting harder – I’m sure I’m not the only one :-) I used to use DVD profiler, and that was able to print out customisable ‘reports’ that were handy. http://www.invelos.com/ Keep ...

Filter request

paybac — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:04:28 GMT

Perhaps we could get an "Incomplete" filter. returns any results with empty areas, fanart, posters. This might let you get rid of the missing fanart/poster options from the drop down list.

Cheers
Paybac

fanart as <movie>.fanart

TheShadow — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:00:32 GMT

Hi.

Would you consider impementing a "preferences" option where fanart can be saved as .fanart. instead of -fanart.

Transformers.fanart.jpg
instead of just
Transformers-fanart.jpg

This would improve compatibility with YAMJ / PopcornHour.

Thanks in advance,
Joao

ignore text in folder when adding movies.

paalfe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:15:41 GMT

I name movie-folder like this: "movietitle (2009)_1080p.BluRay" the _1080p.BluRay makes it difficult for media companion to find the movie in imdb automatically, please make media companion ignore text in foldername after (YEAR)_ Uses these names in foldernames: movietitle (YEAR)_1080p.BluRay.DTS movietitle (YEAR)_720p.BluRay movietitle (YEAR)_720p.HDDVD movietitle (YEAR)_720p.HDTV.DTS movietitle (YEAR)_1080p.HDTV.AC3 movietitle (YEAR)_720p.DD51 movietitle ...

Mass Trailer Download

phill29 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:53:10 GMT

As I understand it you can include the path to the trailer in the nfo for xbmc to stream. Or on the main page of a movie you can choose to download the trailer. But, is it possible to mass download trailers with 1 click so it goes and gets the trailer for each movie from IMDB and places it along side the movie? That way you have a trailer for each movie even if you're offline - plus speeds up movie selection when the annnoying wife is deciding which film she wants to watch by watching trailers... ...

TV Scraper Regex priority

StormyKnight — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:28:57 GMT

Just found an issue with the program "V" .... filename e.g. V.2009.S01E01.avi because of the order of the regex's the Series 20 Episode 09 is being found first & the S01E01 is not even being tested. Billy, can we somehow order these to our preferences OR do you think that S01E01 format should be tested first since the other could easily be just a 4 digit year. It should be left to last as a last resort. I think the tesing order should be S01E01 1x01 0101 I ...

Fanart browser suggestion

paybac — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:29:21 GMT

On the TV and Movie Fanart pages, perhaps the the image size and crop buttons could be moved down betsides the URL and SAVE buttons, thus allowing the current fanart image to take up more space. Or if you plan on supporting multi-Fanart images then perhaps it could be setup like windows filmstrip view with additional Fanart images displayed below the current selected fanart.

What you think?

Paybac

Batch rescraper wizard for TV Shows

rausch101 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:27:02 GMT

The same thing you have for movies, but for TV Shows. Not nearly as many options needed I don't think, but certainly an update for episode rating would be useful. Or maybe if someone wants to reduce the total number of Genre's or something like that. Also, I still have tons of shows that have "netNBC / TV-PG / / SDp / XVID / MPEG Audio / 2ch" in the Director tag or nothing at all in the rating tag. Your program does a great job of creating nfo files for these now, but it would ...

hold place in movie list

paybac — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:20:34 GMT

In Movie/ Main Browser with eitha the watched or unwatched filter checked. Would it be possible, when changing a movies watched/unwatched status, for MC to move to the next movie in the list rather then jumping back to the top of the list?

Cheers
Paybac

Check for updates?

paybac — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:48:18 GMT

Feature request:

How about a button that checks for MC updates or a message popup that says a new version of MC is available do you wish to download?

Cheers
Paybac

<certification>

MarkC — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:07:12 GMT

Hi, Please would it be possible to to add I believe it comes from IMDB eg. USA:PG-13 / UK:15 / Switzerland:14 / Switzerland:14 / Sweden:15 / Spain:13 / South Korea:12 / Singapore:PG / Singapore:NC-16 / Portugal:M/12 / Philippines:PG-13 / Peru:14 / Norway:15 / New Zealand:M / Netherlands:16 / Netherlands:12 / Malaysia:U / Iceland:16 / Iceland:14 / Hungary:16 / Hong Kong:IIB / Germany:16 / France:U / Finland:K-14 / Chile:14 / Canada:PA / ...

Automated Updater

bigh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:09:51 GMT

Heya, After seeing how good the latest incarnation of MediaCompanion is, just thought i'd make the suggestion (not sure if its been suggested before). I love media companion, its fantastic, however what i hate doing is going to it to scan for new tv shows. Would it be possible to add a feature that simply scans the tv show directories for new tv shows periodically? That way you could leave it running in the background and new shows would automatically get scraped. You potentially ...

Fanart and Poster resolution on main screen

MarkC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:55:25 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the latest update!

Would it be possible to have an overlay (black text on white background) or something similar on the fanart and poster images on the main screen showing the image resolution. At the moment, after scrapping, I have to right click the movie and go in to "Fanart Browser" and "Poster Browser" to see what quality has been scrapped.

Thanks.

Restore Actor Search

dbareis — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:10:16 GMT

Hi ya,

Just a reminder, the actor search is still missing. The only thing wrong with the way it used to work is that you couldn't search for any actor, you could only choose an actor on a particular movie and search on that. This is fine but it would also be nice if it remembered all "known" actors (across all movies) and there was a tool for this.

Bye
Dennis

Contect New Eps Search for Current Show

Wizerd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:23 GMT

Billy: Not sure if this one is in the cards or not, but a context menu from the main browser to search for new episodes only for the current show sure would save me a lot time. Generally I am only updating a couple episodes out of the 100+ different tv shows - cause most of them are complete (older shows that no longer are aired). Another feature might be to lock tv shows from rescrapes or new episodes searches if they are 'complete'?

DVD Database, Offline Movie collections.

paybac — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:41:29 GMT

This is probably a pretty complicated request but i thought i would throw it out there. How about adding a feature for our offline DVD/VHS/BlueRay etc collections. This is how i see i working, The user inputs The title of the DVD and the disc number/location of the DVD. MC then creates the Folder for the movie, then creates the .AVI video that says "PLEASE INSERT DISC NUMBER *", MC then creates the NFO, downloads the poster, Fanart at as normal. Obviously there would ...

About the new place for cert!!

Jocke69 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:47:36 GMT

Hi Billy,

I don't like the new place for the Cert info.. it's way to short for the info in it.

Maybe you can place it under the fanart because the Director field is very long
or if you have any other ide

Make MC Skinable

paybac — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:39:43 GMT

How about making MC skinable? so that some skins could be developed for MC, so in turn appealing to a wider audience.

Option to list Episodes without an episode thumb

cobalt6d — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:34:02 GMT

Or maybe an option the rescrape for missing episode thumbs.

(Like list movies without fanart or poster)

Sometimes thetvdb.com does not have an episode thumb up yet and I forget to go back and get them.

Option to always have <sortorder> populated with <title> on Save

MarkC — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:23:27 GMT

Hi,

Please could you add an option to always copy the field to the <sortorder> field if you edit/save or quick save. I have already found myself forgetting to copy it over manually and this field does not update if you edit the movie as well as it stays as the original IMDB title which is, if applicable, prefixed with "The" something which I doubt anybody would want to sort their movies on. <br /> <br /> Thanks. </article> <article> <h1>'Ok' or 'Save' button for preferences...</h1> <p>viperx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:43:33 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> it would be great with an 'Ok' or 'Save' button (and maybe 'Cancel' as well) in preferences popup. It's a bit confusing to set stuff up and just close the window to save the settings. <br /> <br /> Thanks!! </article> <article> <h1>Change Font and GUI</h1> <p>guybrush123 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:54:48 GMT</p> More recommendations than feature requests: <br /> <br /> - I would recommend changing the font in the main view for Movies to Arial or Tahoma. <br /> - Remove the labels on all fields and have them popup on mouse view. <br /> - Remove borders on Poster and Fanart <br /> - Redesign Main Browser to minimize long horizontal text and make poster and Fanart bigger. <br /> - Introduce ability to enlarge text. </article> <article> <h1>Possibility to Rename all TV shows</h1> <p>viperx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:05:50 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> the new "Rename TV Shows" functionallity is great, but would be even greater if there was a way to rename all shows and episodes with just one click. Today you need to right click each season in order to rename episodes. Perhaps a new menu option under TV Shows? To be able to use this by right clicking the show itself would be a great improvement as well. <br /> <br /> Thanks! </article> <article> <h1>Possibility to scan for episodes for a specific TV show</h1> <p>viperx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:54:16 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> I think it would be nice to have the possibility to scan a specific show for new episodes. Maybe a new entry in the popup menu when right clicking a show? I usually know which show I have new episodes for and today it takes quite a lot of time waiting for the new episode search when having a lot of series. <br /> <br /> Thanks! </article> <article> <h1>Make "TV Show Selector" search box more obvious v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:47:59 GMT</p> Wee suggestion: how about changing the search text box in "TV Show Selector" to a white box so it's more obvious that it's user editable? Currently it's grey which makes it look like it's not editable. </article> <article> <h1>Custom Genre Filter</h1> <p>Rastan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:19:30 GMT</p> Hi, I have been using Media Companion for a while now and would like to thank you for the great work you have done. I am currently using the latest release and was wondering if you could implement a sort of custom genre filter. I have made additional genres for certain films, for example I have a lot of martial arts flicks in my collection and have made a new Kung-fu Genre. It would be nice if I could sort all my movies within media companion by these custom genres in the same fashion I can ... </article> <article> <h1>Watched/Unwatched button to the TV shows Season</h1> <p>paybac — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:28 GMT</p> A watched/Unwatched button to the Tv Shows/series and the TV shows/Series/Season window would be nice. This would be helpful especially when intially setting up your MC database or when adding complete seasons that you have already viewed. </article> <article> <h1>Show & Episode Counter</h1> <p>cobalt6d — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:30:02 GMT</p> Can you add a counter for total amount of shows and total amount of episodes <br /> <br /> Please <br /> <br /> </article> <article> <h1>Command line options</h1> <p>herg — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:11:16 GMT</p> Specifically, what I'd like to be able to do is to run a scheduled task that will start XBMC MC, scan for new items, then close XBMC MC. </article> <article> <h1>Add some things to built-in reg ex</h1> <p>rausch101 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:35 GMT</p> Hey Billy, great work on the new version. Easily the best TV manager right now. <br /> <br /> I was wondering if you could add some common expressions to your built-in RegEx, as I'm not familiar with how to add them, plus they're pretty common <br /> <br /> X264 <br /> 2HD <br /> 0TV <br /> NoTV <br /> <br /> Thanks if you get a chance! </article> <article> <h1>Rename TV shows - rename all files with same name</h1> <p>viperx — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:08:06 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> the new "Rename TV Shows" is great, but could be even greater. <br /> <br /> I think it would better to ignore filetype, when renameing the files. Subtitles and other files with the same name as the video file should be renamed as well I think. <br /> <br /> Thanks for a great program! </article> <article> <h1>Other operating system ports</h1> <p>jbrutch — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:37:18 GMT</p> I'm not sure if this is something you'd like to do or plan or what.. <br /> <br /> But having ports for other operating systems would be awesome. I'm not a programmer and I have no idea if this is possible and how much work it would be. But since xbmc is available for different operating systems I thought a port of this to say linux or OSX would be cool to have. <br /> <br /> Any input? Good idea/bad idea? <br /> <br /> Thanks! </article> <article> <h1>Some assorted feature requests</h1> <p>paperclip — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:37:38 GMT</p> Hi <br /> <br /> Here are some feature requests that I would like to see added to the TV section (which may have been asked for before or even in the current roadmap): <br /> <br /> 1. Add missing episode thumbnails command <br /> 2. Add missing season thumbnails command <br /> 3. Auto file renamer with similar functionallity to EpNamer (http://www.epnamer.com/) </article> <article> <h1>poster not found with scrapper. Have button to launch google image search</h1> <p>hanson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:50:57 GMT</p> Hi <br /> <br /> just a thought on having a button that opens google images with movie and select image <br /> from there. <br /> <br /> <br /> hanson </article> <article> <h1>Filter request IMDB rating and directory</h1> <p>hanson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:01:15 GMT</p> hi some other ideas 1 IMDB rating filter i think this has been discussed before. 2 filter directories. IE if you only want to display content in directory 1 and 4 real life example i have 4 xbmc units 2 for kids and 1 adults and one teen i have movies for kids in one directory and adults in another and mc lists all it would be great to filter only one of the directories to check content. hanson </article> <article> <h1>Season Folder images</h1> <p>jphoenix — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:30:28 GMT</p> Gidday Billy. First, LOVE!! your program! Now a request. I'm still using V2.092 for TV Shows and one thing the program doesn't do for me is place the Season thumbs in the Season folders. I have TV Shows then sub-folders for the Seasons. IE: Babylon5 Season 01 Season 02....etc MC scrapes the Shows Perfectly and also downloads the Season Thumbs, but these are in the Show folder. Is there an automated way to add the season thumb into the correct season ... </article> <article> <h1>Ability to rename files with scraped content</h1> <p>DtYer — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:56:50 GMT</p> First I would like to say thank you for your program. It has saved me hours upon hours of having to manually maintain my library across multiple machines. One feature I can see having added benefit would be to rename files based on the data scraped much like MP3 renaming software does. An example would be $S$E - $T might return the name S01E01 - Cartman Gets an Anal Probe or $T ($Y) returns The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Just a thought. Again thanks ... </article> <article> <h1>Support for UMC (Popcorn Hour)</h1> <p>hindibuff — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:32:41 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> <br /> This new project being developed for set top media boxes called UMC (http://hdd-player.de/umc/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is truely awesome. Any chance of this app supporting their XML files? Doesn't seem that UMC supports nfo files fully at this point. <br /> <br /> Thanks </article> <article> <h1>Gen2 TV Shows...</h1> <p>StormyKnight — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:07:56 GMT</p> For your consideration Billy, When you create the TV section, is there a way to list all the TV shows so that you can see more at once rather than the Gen1 version which only listed 1 at a time unless you activate the pull-down. In otherwords use a list box instead of a combo box. I'm wondering if the Seasons section that was in Gen 1 could revert back to just a combo box in Gen2 saving space for the actual TV shows..... Then under that have a section to display the actual episodes ... </article> <article> <h1>Request for option for the runtime field</h1> <p>gabbott — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:13:10 GMT</p> Could it be possible to add an option to full in the runtime field based on the media file itself instead of scraping for that info? When the info is scraped alot of times it returns multiple runtimes for different cuts of a film. I thought that since media companion now gets that info already from each file that it would be cool to have an option to fill that in for the runtime. </article> <article> <h1>I Like the new tabs in V3.094, but....</h1> <p>StormyKnight — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:19:38 GMT</p> Could both the IMDB & File Details information actually display in the main MC window rather than external windows, just to make it a little cleaner? I notice that the change movie does this & looks good. I also notice that if you right click on a movie that gives you a context menu, is the code you are using for those context operations the same as in the new tabs? Perhaps they don't need to be in the contect menu anymore, or you need it to switch to the new tab reather than ... </article> <article> <h1>Profiles Return</h1> <p>Wizerd — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:38:32 GMT</p> Before we get back into the TV portion of the new builds, is there any chance we can get Profiles working again. I personally always use a second profile to scan new itnes in a seperate directory. That way I am not scanning through my whole 2000 movie collection to add 3-4 new movies. I use a seperate profile for a single directory, scan and then move to the NAS tower. <br /> <br /> As always - I appreciate the countless hours you have put and and look forward to each new build. </article> <article> <h1>Simplified settings.</h1> <p>Vlatro — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:31:02 GMT</p> While I admit, the program is simple to use, there are a number of different configurations people will have that will impact the typical settings they choose. A "Setup Wizard" that steps new users through the proper configuration based on how they answer a few simple questions would eliminate a lot of the troubles people have with other programs like XBMC. For example, a user running XBMC on an xBox on a standard def TV will by default want the lower poster and fan art resolutions, ... </article> <article> <h1>Resizing fanart saved from url or from browsing</h1> <p>crash123 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:43:19 GMT</p> Since the user has already set that they want fanart resized when downloaded would it be possible if fanart was resized when saved from a URL or browsed? <br /> <br /> Cheers </article> <article> <h1>How about an iPhone App?</h1> <p>cobalt6d — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:15:30 GMT</p> It could work with MC so you know what movies you have and a wish list so you can make a note of movies you want to get. <br /> <br /> I have a lot of movies and can't remember all of them. I write movies down on my hand to remember what to get latter. <br /> <br /> The app store does have some, but nothing as good as MC and they cost for the app and the software on your computer. The best one cost $10 for the app and $50 for the computer program. </article> <article> <h1>Fanart / Poster Quality rating system.</h1> <p>Vlatro — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:51:40 GMT</p> The problem with Fanart, Posters, Actor Thumbs etc is the default chosen is often times a very poor quality. Cropped box scans end up being displayed as posters, Fanart is composed of low quality screen caps some fan uploaded instead of studio released art and so on. I propose a way of determining automatically which piece of art MC will chose by default based on the over-ride decisions of the community. Upon manually editing an art source, the imdb/tvdb tag number is submitted ... </article> <article> <h1>Auto generate possible posters from Movie</h1> <p>dbareis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:06:36 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> <br /> For TV shows you have the ability to capture a frame for a poster. I'd like something similar for movies except I think it would be better to have more control, perhaps the poster browser could autogenerate 'x' number of images allowing you to choose the one you want like you do from posters from the poster sites. <br /> <br /> No biggy but just an idea for when you can't find a decent poster. </article> </main></body></html>