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by <>< on Apr 29th, 2010

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meta<browser/> 2.0 (Pricing)

Pricing information for meta<browser/> 2.0 is now available,  continue reading for details…

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by <>< on Apr 16th, 2010

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meta<browser/> 2.0 (Trial)

A trial version of meta<browser/> 2.0 is now available,  continue reading for details…

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by <>< on Mar 26th, 2010

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meta<browser/> 2.0 (Preview)

meta<browser/> started off as a fun project to gather metadata for Media Browser, one of the best Media Center plugins I’ve used, and chances are, if you’re reading this, you are already a user of Media Browser.  Over the year meta<browser/> has had a decent following and has helped many people (including myself) in organizing [...]

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by <>< on Mar 5th, 2010

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Fix MPAA & Aspect Ratio Fetching (Updated)

meta<browser/> gets its User Rating, MPAA and Aspect Ratio from IMDb by scraping IMDb’s HTML.  Recently IMDb changed it’s HTML which broke the fetching of MPAA and Aspect Ratio.  Here’s how to fix it…

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by <>< on Nov 13th, 2009

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Storing metadata locally

Questions keep popping up on how exactly one benefits from storing metadata locally, and how it differs from MediaBrowser’s ability to fetch metadata.  I’ll briefly try to explain… This page is wiki editable click here to edit this page.

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by <>< on Nov 4th, 2009

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Wired Home

We just bought a new house and are now in the “settling down” phase, well, at least my wife is…the geek in me always wants to tinker with things and find other ways to do things that were already easy to do in the first place.  I was lucky enough to get a house that [...]

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by <>< on Nov 1st, 2009

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Media Browser 2.1.3.0 (Phoenix) released!

It’s a couple of days earlier than its projected release date of the 22nd, but who’s complaining?  Taken from the announcements section in the Media Browser forums, here’s the changes and newly added features: CHANGES Added: Parental Controls Facility Can control media based on metadata rating, or conversely block everything PINEntry, added support to match [...]

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by Jon on Oct 20th, 2009

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Media Browser YouTube contest!

Taken directly from the Media Browser forums: CONTEST: Create a Video of Media Browser in Action Create a video of Media Browser in action, maybe show off your customizations. Or teach the new generation a thing of two about Media Browser and get your video posted on Media Browser’s homepage. Prize If selected your video [...]

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by Jon on Oct 8th, 2009

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Media Center Studio released. Another menu editor to be released tonight.

Advent, the developer behind the wildly popular MC Menu Mender for editing Vista Media Center menu strips, has just released his Win7/7MC version of the application – Media Center Studio. Personally, I’m waiting on Mikinho‘s offering which is supposed to be released sometime tonight. His application is supposed to allow for menu manipulation without any [...]

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by Jon on Sep 15th, 2009

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