Info regarding Cover Art scraping

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

What happened to .info file support?

Version 2 contained the ability to create a moviename.info file, insert the IMDB url for the movie, thus allowing for a perfect lookup for movies. There was an option within the OPTIONS section to enable .info support. Version 3 appears to have remove

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

Seldom Seen Kid cover on show

The original art for the front cover of TSSK has been donated to Manchester Art Gallery's permanent Manchester collection, by Guy. Here's the bumpf from their mailout: We are thrilled to announce that the artwork for Bury-band Elbow?s Mercury >

Scraping Covers

Hello, I'm just curious is it possible to scrape covers from Amazon. It seems that IMDB for some reason doesn't have or isn't working right when it comes down to covers. Another question how do you get xbmc to see the thumbnails in the folders?

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

Some Info - And a Preview.

Sup, all. For the past few months, I've been madly writing away and planning for the next user story n' sum shit, you know. I promised I'd make it. Just to illustrate my point, I've even made maps of where the story's gonna take place! Anywho, I

New Release Media Companion gen2 3.148

Just a small update on 3.143 New feature for Movies, support for <sortorder> tags. The field is below the Movie title, by default it is the same as the title, but xbmc will list movies alphabetically according to what is in this tag. You ca

Songs that might be good to hear Elbow cover.

I've enjoyed Elbow's covers of unlikely songs, and I wondered if there are any others that would be good or interesting to hear, and why. Personally I would like them to do "Everyday Is Like Sunday" by Mozza. Nothing wrong with the original -