Information

MediaManager previously known as "MediaInfoFetcher" is a application and a API which can be used to retrieve TV show and movie meta data from Internet sources. This information is then stored locally and can be used to rename media files with the correct title.

MediaManager is written in Java and requires JRE version >= 1.6.

Features

Provides a CLI tools that perform actions on media files.
Fetches TV Show and Film meta data from the Internet via sources such as the XBMC scrapers.
Find film posters on the Internet for each film.
Allows multiple sources and stores.
Caches information in stores such as iTunes MP4 files and XML stores.
Runs on any platform that supports Java 1.6.
Provides action for executing system commands on media files.
Provides action to rename files based on complex patterns.
Provides a API for accessing the information.
Provides a store that writes Sapphire XML files.
Provides a store that saves metadata into MP4/M4V files that iTunes can read.
Configurable logging via log4j

Status

Mon 4 July 2010

Media Manager v2.0 has just been released. The project has had a name changes since the last updated (previously known as MediaInfoFetcher). This is a major update that focus on managing media (Currently TV Shows and Films) and much greater reliability when fetching meta data.

Some of the change high lights are as follows:

Better searching for film and TV information using XBMC scrapers
Tool to download and stay uptodate with the latest XBMC scrapers
Much improved film title and show name lookup by variours searching strategies
New actions, such as ability to execute system commands on media files and rename the media files
Enhanced renaming patterns which new token types and optional parts to patterns.
Can lookup film information from .NFO files.
Improved configuration options
New XML store for caching media information
Improved tag chimp source, that will use the sites API instead of scraping the HTML.
Maybe new configuration options (and a new configuration format).
New installer for all platforms.

This has been quite a while coming, but it's finally here. Please use the project website to let me know of bugs or feature requests. Also if you find the application useful then let me know on my blog.

Wed 29 July 2009

Release version 1.2.2 of MediaInfoFetcher. This is mostly a bug fix release. Their is a jar file that will work any any platform or RPM's that work on OpenSUSE.

Changes are as follows:

Now copes with website changes to some of the source sites.

Wed 10 Jun 2009

Just made release 1.2.1 of MediaInfoFetcher. This is a small bug fix release mostly. Their is a jar file that will work any any platform or RPM's that work on OpenSUSE. Please read the user guide for more information on usage and installation.

Changes are as follows:

Features:

Now able to rename subtitle files

Bug Fixes:

Fixed some null pointer issues
Updated to work with changes in source websites

Wed 13 May 2009

Just released (1.2) of MediaInfoFetcher. This can be found on the download page. Their is a jar file that will work any any platform or RPM's that work on OpenSUSE. Please read the user guide for more information on usage and installation.

Changes are as follows:

Features:

Recursive renaming of media files
Added a MythTV Store for writing film information to the MythTV database.
Added logging to the application (Using log4j).
Added new Film Hybrid source that takes the best of all the film sources.
Films can now have a genre flagged as primary.
Added new www.tagchimp.com source for films.
Films can now also have chapter name information and long descriptions.
Films and TV Shows can now have non numeric ID's.

Bug Fixes:

Updated all the web parsers for latest changes to the websites.
Fixed text output. Now shows text for "Fetching film from source" instead of "Fetching show from source".

Performnance:

Speed ups for MP4 store using atomic parsley. It now longer writes metadata unless it needs too and artwork is removed at the same time as writing the metadata.