Although TV Rename can do some of this same functionality Ember will allow to you pick different backgrounds (fan art), posters etc and is overall more robust.ĭownload Ember Media Manager unzip with WINRAR and execute Ember Media Manager.exe file to install. To do this I choose to use Ember Media Manager. Now that we have our files organized, let’s pull in additional information to make things easier for XBMC to import everything correctly. Here is a video guide to get my files moved from a random folder to their correct season folder. Tv Rename will take care of the seasons etc. Also you will need to create a folder with the show name, in this case I will do “Breaking Bad”. If you had a bunch of different seasons and other tv shows in this folder then TV Rename would find, fix, and move them to a proper folder structure.ĭownload TV Rename and install it if you have scatter files that need to get under proper structure.įirst as mentioned above you will need to create a “Tv Shows” folder on the drive that will contain your final library. Here is an example of a folder with some files in it named appropriately. The main thing is that all the files have the correct tvshow name along with the correct season “s” with number and episode “e” with number. Sometimes they may be TVshow.S1.E1 or TVshow S01-E02. You will only need to make sure your files are named 01 for example so TVRename will know what to do with them. It will create the folders for each show, season, etc and rename/place TV episode files in the correct locations. TVRename is a great program to get organized if your files are scattered. drive letter:\TV Shows\Family Guy\Season 2\Show 01.drive letter:\TV Shows\Family Guy\Season 1\Show 02. ![]() drive letter:\TV Shows\Family Guy\Season 1\Show 01.Note: If you run out of space on a drive you can just continue the same format on another drive as XBMC will let you import multiple locations and present them as one.Īfter creating a TV folder and sharing it out as you did with the Movie folder above this is the format that plays nice with XBMC. Structure = Drive Letter\Movies\”Movie Name” “(Movie Year)”\”Movie File Name” ![]() bat file in your movie folder containing all the movie files and execute. If you do it manually it could take for ever.ĭownload “ File2Folder Script 1.0 – Posted 03-02-2009“. It will automatically take the file name of each movie, make the folder, name the folder the movie name, then place the movie file in the new folder. Tip: If you currently have a single folder with multiple movies then make sure each movie is named as you would want it and run file2folder.bat script. XBMC or Ember Media Manger (described below in the Meta data and Artwork section) will add all the other information when it is imported. Inside each folder you will only need your movie file. You can put the movie year in parenthesis to help XBMC find it easier when importing. You will want each movie in a separate folder with the folder name the same as the movie. You will need this path so your XBMC setup can find the files later. ![]() When done, it will tell you the path to get to this folder later. Right click your folder that contains media and go to properties, then click the share tab.Ĭlick Share then select everyone and click share again. I will show you how to setup a share in Windows 7 here for now, but will do other systems in the future including the FREENAS server I use. Make sure the computer with the main share drive has enough space for all the things you want to store plus expansion. Ultimately you will want to have a folder on your network that is accessible by any computer that would connect to it on your network. Here we will show you the best way to organize files along with tools that will make things a lot easier. If you already have tons of media then it is somewhat of a pain to get organized initially, but well worth it. The trick to keeping your system manageable and clean is proper structure.
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