Wow, this app and everything seems great. I am using Vista 64 premium, and have been using media center, but I HATE IT! There doesn't seem to be a trial versions of mytv now, and I'm afraid to buy it if it's not likely to work. And I love this automatic sorting, I have about 500 GB of tv shows that I have been manually sorting for EVER. They're all compressed .avi files now though, with mostly just tv series, and titles. I've been going back and sorting by seasons and episode since media center doesn't add it by default. Should I just get myTV, and your sorting program and use it? Thanks for any tips!
Not entirely sure what your question is as it seems you already have organized your existing files according to season/episode numbers? In which case myTV will pick them up and add them to your library automatically.
If you are talking about future recorded programmes, either of the applications discussed in this thread should make the filenames "myTV compatible", so again they should be picked up automatically.
In any case, if you think myTV does what you want (with or without the help of a third party application like the ones discussed here) go ahead and purchase it - if for any reason you're not happy with your purchase we'll issue a refund (as long as it's requested within a reasonable amount of time).
It's like communicating with god. You pray and pray and pray for that bike, but you never get a response or the bike.Then you figure out how it works; you steal a bike and pray for forgiveness.
My question is, if it works on vista 64. And why there aren't any trial versions to download, when it lists a trial as a version. I was wanting to make sure I could install it before I bought. I also can't find where to buy it!
Also, my files are not organized, they just have series and title, no season or episode so they're all out of order. But they're .avi files.
Ok.
I'll leave the x64 question to the others, as I don't use this application myself - myTV does however work fine under x64.
There is no trial available at this time for a number of reasons, but the main one being that it is not prioritized as not having a trial has not had a [huge] detrimental effect on sales. So you have a choice of either coughing up for the commercial version (and asking for a refund should it turn out not to work for you - which will be issued no questions asked) or hang tight for a day, week, month or even several months until a new trial version is available.
Having re-read your original post I now realize you have no season/episode numbering available - [one of] the applications discussed in this thread should pick up the majority of your files and allow this information to be gathered, which in turn means myTV will be able to automatically pick up the actual metadata.
I'm afraid my app isn't going to help you with your AVI files. It works with dvr-ms and wtv files that contain metadata about the shows. Since avi files don't contain the metadata needed to figure out the season/episode number, my app doesn't work with them.
To be honest, I'm not sure if there is an app that will work with avi files. I know of some programs that will rename them once the season/episode is already in the title somewhere, but I don't personally know of any that will work based off of just the title and episode name.
MCEZ Sort can help you organize your new shows as you record them in MCE/VMC/7MC, but it's not going to be able to help you organize the ones you've already got.
woolooloo:I'm afraid my app isn't going to help you with your AVI files. It works with dvr-ms and wtv files that contain metadata about the shows. Since avi files don't contain the metadata needed to figure out the season/episode number, my app doesn't work with them. To be honest, I'm not sure if there is an app that will work with avi files. I know of some programs that will rename them once the season/episode is already in the title somewhere, but I don't personally know of any that will work based off of just the title and episode name.
Oh damn. My bad.
I was sure one of the apps (either yours or dgausts) would match by filename also. If not, that's certainly a hole someone needs to fill hint hint nudge nudge ;)
There's no easy way of grabbing an episode from TheTVDB based on episode name at the moment so you'd have to pull down the entire info (and possibly cache it locally as the bandwidth usage is running wild at the moment - 75GB/day I think we transfer) and iterate through finding a [close] match. I'll add an actual getEpisodeByTitle interface to the redesign list though.
admin:If not, that's certainly a hole someone needs to fill hint hint nudge nudge ;)
Nope... not me....
75GB/day is massive.... what the hell are people doing?
dgaust:75GB/day is massive.... what the hell are people doing?
Well, I don't feel near anywhere as bad about my app not caching series information then.
I volunteer dgaust to do that, he already does matching by episode name so I'm sure he can throw it together in an hour or so...
woolooloo: I volunteer dgaust to do that, he already does matching by episode name so I'm sure he can throw it together in an hour or so...
I would have to agree ;)
ya so we are probably closer to 100Gigs a day. 75 of that being from the mirror site which handles all .zip files and image files served up at the API level. the other 15-25 gigs a day is just people browsing the site. The usage is flying off the handle. We are definetly looking at these issues during the redesign.
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does it work on vista 64?
woah, thats a lot of data, id offer to mirror some stuff as i only use a small amount of the 2500GB/mo transfer limit, but im thinking of moving to a VS in a month or so as im paying a ridiculous amount for my server atm due to the poor exchange rate, and theres a much smaller transfer limit.
nmaxfield: does it work on vista 64?
Yes
