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My Boxee Box is not finding all of the television artwork on its own. Is it possible to manually tag television shows (or movies / music / etc...) with the correct artwork? The files reside on an SMB share. Thanks
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If it is not finding the right information it's possible the files are not named properly. Movies should ideally be sorted into folder name\file name. One tip, for movies especially, is to add the year on to the end of the movie folder. So based on the two things I just mentioned it should look like the following for the movie Akira:
\\Share\Movies\Akira (1988)\Akira (1988).avi
This helps isolate out the file to a specific year making it easier for scrapers to identify the movie in the event there are similar titles/remakes (Bank job, italian job, oceans 11, etc).
I would operate the same way with TV shows in breaking them down into show name\season #\episode file. So lets use Parks and Recreation as an example:
\\share\TV\Parks and Recreation\Season 3\Parks and Recreation - S03E09 - Fancy Party.avi
If this doesn't help you can use software tools to manually download the metadata to the folders (keeping the same naming structure as I mentioned). I'm not sure what platform you're on but for Windows MediaCenterMaster and Ember Media Manager are two great tools. Ember Media was designed by someone over at the XBMC forums so it will work great for Boxee since it was forked from XBMC. Media Center Master has options to save the data specific for MediaCenter, XBMC, PopcornHour, etc and works well but I found it to be a little on the heavy side with resources.
Hope this all helps. I've spent way more time than I'd like to admit getting my HTPC to work how I'd like it to and found the above mentioned examples worked the best for all front ends I've used (WMC, Boxee, XBMC).
Good Luck.
\\Share\Movies\Akira (1988)\Akira (1988).avi
This helps isolate out the file to a specific year making it easier for scrapers to identify the movie in the event there are similar titles/remakes (Bank job, italian job, oceans 11, etc).
I would operate the same way with TV shows in breaking them down into show name\season #\episode file. So lets use Parks and Recreation as an example:
\\share\TV\Parks and Recreation\Season 3\Parks and Recreation - S03E09 - Fancy Party.avi
If this doesn't help you can use software tools to manually download the metadata to the folders (keeping the same naming structure as I mentioned). I'm not sure what platform you're on but for Windows MediaCenterMaster and Ember Media Manager are two great tools. Ember Media was designed by someone over at the XBMC forums so it will work great for Boxee since it was forked from XBMC. Media Center Master has options to save the data specific for MediaCenter, XBMC, PopcornHour, etc and works well but I found it to be a little on the heavy side with resources.
Hope this all helps. I've spent way more time than I'd like to admit getting my HTPC to work how I'd like it to and found the above mentioned examples worked the best for all front ends I've used (WMC, Boxee, XBMC).
Good Luck.
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Not that I know of. I think the best you can do is use the Identify option and make sure it's finding the right episodes of the right shows.
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I have resorted to using XBMC and Ember Media Manager to tag the files, downloads the metadata into the .NFO file and the covers. The latest version of Boxee will read those if it can't get a download. Not perfect, but it does help.
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