Does this work for songs? I have a huge collection of songs, but I want to be able to listen to the songs that my mood prefers at that time...and sometimes by the time I find it in my huge collection, the mood is gone.
Java! Seriously dude, I have hardly seen one or two Desktop Apps that are cross platform and Java. It works great for the web but when it comes to Desktop - C++ and Python rule the rooster :)
is almost perfect but....halfbrainJune 25 2009, 06:07:39 UTC
1. takes ages to scan folder (sine you mentioned it worked well for large collections), and recursive scanning needs improvement. 2. if you are a pirate like me and have sorted all the stuff you've downloaded, you might hit a roadblock. xbmc picks things up based on how they are named. e.g. tv shows are picked up if you have them named as S01E01, S01E02 etc, but it doesn't do such a great job if you have episode titles as names 3. the naming is a problem if you happen to have foreign films. i have some of them with english names, and some with the original names. creates a bit of a mess sometimes. would be nice if there was a manual edit option too once it's done scanning.
Re: is almost perfect but....chandrahasaJune 25 2009, 06:28:56 UTC
1. Yeah I agree but getting so much data off the net does take its time. What I did notice is that once its scanned a collection if you add even 10-15 new videos it takes only a few mins to scrape that info off the net.
2. Most of my episodes are directly in the S01E01 format. Thought most torrent based uploaders follow that(or similar) format. Btw scanning using episode names will take longer as opposed to a season episode lookup.
3. You can manually edit the entries, go to the video in question right click and say "Movie Info" then hit refresh, when its scannign you have an option of "manual" override.
By personal experience XBMC picked up 95% of my media out of the box, I needed to change the filenames or manually get the rest of the info. I think that is still good :) Who knows it might get smarter down the line :)
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Does this work for songs? I have a huge collection of songs, but I want to be able to listen to the songs that my mood prefers at that time...and sometimes by the time I find it in my huge collection, the mood is gone.
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Give it a try its only 50Mb for windows
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XBMC’s source code is made up of a mix of programming-languages
* C/C++
* SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) and OpenGL (for Linux / Mac OS X / Windows)
* DirectX and Direct3D (for Xbox)
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Ps: The best apps are made on Qt in my opinion :P
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2. if you are a pirate like me and have sorted all the stuff you've downloaded, you might hit a roadblock. xbmc picks things up based on how they are named. e.g. tv shows are picked up if you have them named as S01E01, S01E02 etc, but it doesn't do such a great job if you have episode titles as names
3. the naming is a problem if you happen to have foreign films. i have some of them with english names, and some with the original names. creates a bit of a mess sometimes. would be nice if there was a manual edit option too once it's done scanning.
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2. Most of my episodes are directly in the S01E01 format. Thought most torrent based uploaders follow that(or similar) format. Btw scanning using episode names will take longer as opposed to a season episode lookup.
3. You can manually edit the entries, go to the video in question right click and say "Movie Info" then hit refresh, when its scannign you have an option of "manual" override.
By personal experience XBMC picked up 95% of my media out of the box, I needed to change the filenames or manually get the rest of the info. I think that is still good :) Who knows it might get smarter down the line :)
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