meta<browser/>

• Multi-Select
• Music
• Image Context Menu
• Fanart.tv
• MyMovies.xml (Media Browser)
• Other Updates

Please check your settings after update, as some might have changed or reset.

Multi-Select¶

Multi-select is now available in meta<browser/>. Apart from the normal Right Click context menu items for multi-select (lock/unlock/process/etc) you can now multi-select and manually edit and save metadata for the selected items. This can come in handy if you want to, for example, change one value for all selected items to another (ie, changing Type from DVD to Blu-ray) or to delete all posters for selected items.

Notes

• Only items of the same type can be multi-selected
• Information Panel
  • Edit any information available
  • Items that have different values will be shown as <keep>
  • Items that have same values will show the value
  • Items that are empty will remain empty
• Multi-value items (cast/crew/genres/studios/taglines/etc)
  • Remove all items from the list (ie delete all genres)
  • Add an item to the list (ie add the Genre "Family" to selected movies)
  • A combination of the two above (you cannot edit/delete a specific item when multi-selected)
• Images
  • Delete any image for the selected items
  • Update images for the selected items by adding a locally stored image (all selected items will now have the same image)

Please be careful, as there is no undo, so if you accidentally change the LocalTitle of all selected items to one value, there's no way to go back (other than to refetch).

Music¶

Preliminary music support has been added to meta<browser/>. Please make sure to install the mp3 Tagger plugin from auto-update.

Notes

• Music support is still beta (it might be dropped)
• Only supports MP3 files
• The media collection list is built using Artist->Album->Song structure using existing ID3 tag information
• No fetching is yet available, you can manually edit and save any metadata
• Metadata is saved to the file itself using ID3 tags
• No local metadata is saved or read

Image Context Menu¶

Right click context menu has been added to image panels. It allows you to easily add a locally stored image (a lot better experience than the already supported drag-drop) and save the currently selected image to disk.

A copy/paste is also available which can make it easy to perform other tasks. It copies the image to the clipboard and pastes from the clipboard as well (if an image is available). It can make some tasks easier, such as:

• Right Click->Copy an image from Google Images and paste it into meta<browser/> (for those hard to find images)
• Copy an image from meta<browser/> and paste it into your favorite image editor. Edit to your liking, copy from image editor and paste into meta<browser/>.

Fanart.tv¶

Support for logos, clear art and thumbs from fanart.tv have been added. Please make sure to install the fanart.tv plugin.

Please note that season level thumbs will not be fetched through automation (ie Process All) since their current API does not identify what particular season a thumb is for. Their next version of the API will support season level thumb identification and meta<browser/> will be updated accordingly.

MyMovies.xml (Media Browser)¶

As of Media Browser 2.5.2 - Apollo, MediaBrowser will now primarily look for movie.xml instead of mymovies.xml (although they will still provide backward compatibility for non-encrypted mymovies.xml files in this version). This is due to the change in MyMovies management software which now encrypts the mymovies.xml file causing issues with any application that relied on reading the file created by MyMovies management software.

The MediaBrowser saver plugin will now create a movie.xml file instead of a mymovies.xml. Although, if you have not updated to the latest version of Media Browser, you can still enable the creation of mymovies.xml through the plugin options. The options available are:

• Save mymovies.xml
• Delete existing mymovies.xml (do not check if using MyMovies management software or MyMovies frontend)
• Fallback on mymovies.xml if no movie.xml exists (will only work if existing mymovies.xml is not encrypted)

Ideally, after you have updated to the latest Media Browser and have converted your existing metadata to movie.xml, you would want none of those options checked.

Other Updates¶

Bug #346: Group By Date Added doesn't update properly if Metabrowser is always running
Bug #716: Error when updating to the latest update of MediaBrowser plugin
Bug #723: Episode Sorting - SEE detection incorrectly picks up 720p as Season 7, Episode 20 (remove SEE detection for sorting)
Bug #734: FFmpeg - image extraction timeout error
Bug #742: Cast Images - If found image from one source fails to download, it does not try other sources
Bug #749: MetadataCleanup Plugin - When set to keep All genres or studios, it only keeps 1
Bug #753: Export List lists all media items even if media collection list is filtered
Bug #754: TV Schedule refresh with no groups enabled causes error
Bug #768: Polling (Samba) fetches metadata for newly detected items even if "Fetch metadata when new media is detected" is unchecked
Bug #773: Country dosent get updated on Movies from IMDB?
Bug #776: IMDB - TV / Episode list html changes
Bug #790: TV.com - HTML changes
Feature #85: MultiSelect - Lock/Unlock multiple items
Feature #692: Ability to save custom filter within the tv schedule
Feature #693: Enable episode discovery (within tv schedule) automatic
Feature #694: Auto refresh TV Schedule approx every 6 hours
Feature #696: Add ability to delete cast images from GUI
Feature #702: Fanart.tv support
Feature #706: Allow disabling of renaming of episodes per Series
Feature #727: Execute manual saving on a separate thread
Feature #728: MultiSelect editing of metadata
Feature #729: Add option to initially load metabrowser with all groups collapsed
Feature #740: Add Right Click Context Menus to image panels
Feature #748: Preliminary Music Support (manual editing/saving only, no fetching)
Feature #755: Improve Grouping speed
Feature #760: XBMC - Option to save cast images to a .actors sub directory
Feature #763: Add "first air date" patterns to TV renamer
Feature #764: MediaBrowser - Saver update to save in new movie.xml file + backward compatibility for unencrypted mymovies.xml files
Feature #767: Add taskbar progress indication when running Process All
Feature #780: Resize Images - Add option to resize logos/clear arts/thumbs for TV
Feature #786: Add rename history window (remove rename queue, renaming is no longer queued)

Take Care