Archive:ViMediaManager

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An open source Mac OS X media manager. Although still in alpha as of this writing, it is already highly functional and in active development. It gathers, stores, manages, and enhances information and art for movie, TV, and anime collections. Although it is developed primarily for XBMC, it can be used with other media players like YAMJ and Boxee.

Features include:

  1. Manages movie, TV show & anime collections with customized features for each.
  2. Downloads media metadata from TheMovieDB.org, IMDb.com, TheTVDB.com, Rotten Tomatoes, and AniDB.net.
  3. Creates, updates, and allows editing of NFO metadata within the application; the file is saved with the media.
  4. Scans media for file info (codecs, resolution, etc.) and writes it to the NFO file.
  5. Finds and downloads trailers, theme songs, posters, fanart, banners, clearart, character art, disc art, logos, thumbnails, extra thumbs, and extra fanart for movies and series from the aforementioned sources, Youtube.com, HD-Trailers.net, televisiontunes.com, and Fanart.tv.
  6. Art picker for downloading thumbs, viewing, and choosing images to use for posters, backdrops, etc.
  7. Many innovative sorting options to organize lists of media.
  8. The main display shows important metadata and artwork.
  9. A feature-rich episodes managers that displays TV show/anime airing status and next episode air date information, metadata, images, cast, etc.
  10. Set manager for creating and editing movie sets/collections.
  11. Automatically searches for metadata & images for all media in your chosen language (when the respective database provides localised information).
  12. Automatically renames files and folders according to highly customizable preferences.
  13. A detailed, well-illustrated user manual.
Attention talk.png For more information check out the ViMediaManager thread on the XBMC forums.