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Scraping taking forever

I installed 3.175 and tried to scrape the 5 new movies I had stored up. It's been working on movie #1 for about 1 hour now and I can see that XBMC is doing tons of reads from my server which contains the movies. How do I tell what's going on and

Scraping Halts on particular movie

When I attempt to scrape the movie "Across the Universe" XBMCMC halts with: Scraper Output: Starting Folder Scan 246 New Movies Found Searching IMDB For Across The Universe Blu-Ray IMDB ID found :- tt0445922 An updated NFO for

Please, I am an IDIOT! What to do when done scraping?

I am sure the majority of you will be laughing at this, but here goes: I am new to this. I downloaded Media Companion, read the instructions, let MC scrape my movies, NOW WHAT? Do I save the file as an HTML? What do I do with the file once I hav

episodes not scraping

Hey all! I am a semi-new user to both XBMC and MC. I've looked around a lot for my issue and have not found anything that has seemed to help. I'm adding in TV Shows to be scraped. Scrubs and Family Guy scraped both show, seasons and episodes flawlessly

Classic Album Covers Stamps

One for cover art buffs or completist fans of Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, New Order etc: Royal Mail Classic Stamps Royal Mail are even offering a book featuring interviews with Sir Peter Blake, Roger Dean and Peter Saville.

Info regarding Cover Art scraping

I do not want my cover art replaced when I scrape my movies. However, I do want the fanart. In Preferences, I have the following selected: - Don't overwrite existing thumbnails & fanart - During autoscrape, Download Fanart for Movies When m

Setting Scraping Preferences for Posters. A little help required.

By the way, I have to say, MC has saved me Sooooo much time, so thank you very much for all of your hard work! Question: I have a collection of 400 DVD's that all have high res cover art stored within the DVD file as "folder.jpg". Is ther

TV Scraping errors or wrong settings?

Hi there and let me say sorry for the lengthy post beforehand. I have a problem with scraping tv shows. It either returns the wrong number of shows or it includes the sample directory in the scrape results. I´m running MC version 2.291. My

3.400 - 'Specials' Not Scraping & tags

Not a biggy as you can edit them manually. When I scrape a TV Show it doesn't scrape the <displayseason> & <displayepisode> tags. This results in the 'Specials' not being placed correctly in XBMC. They just appear in the 'Specials' in

3 Digit episode number - scrape?

I'm having trouble scraping a Top Gear special episode. Top Gear - S00E109 - The Great Adventures - Polar Special I'm assuming it won't scrape due to the three digit episode number (109). Any ideas on how to get around

Updated IMDB scraper library - 09-October-2010

Just replace the imdb.dll file in your Media Companion folder with the one contained within the download archive. IMDB made some pretty big changes this time, pretty much had to rewrite every parameter. It seems that IMDB is being rather clever in

3.317 - Movie Scrape no longer pulling information from IMDB

I think this is because of IMDB's recent layout change and maybe something on their backend is different now, but Movie Companion only scrapes the posters of new movies now and doesn't pull the Plot, Outline, Genre, Cert, Studio or Tagline. Posters are

Scraping taking forever

I installed 3.175 and tried to scrape the 5 new movies I had stored up. It's been working on movie #1 for about 1 hour now and I can see that XBMC is doing tons of reads from my server which contains the movies. How do I tell what's going on and