Yammm – Yet Another Media Meta Manager

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[b]Yet Another Media Meta Manager (Yammm)[/b]

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Not that we need another meta manager but none of the ones available that I’ve tried (quite a few) really suited my needs so I developed Yet Another Media Meta Manager (Yammm).

Yammm runs as a Windows Service and will download any missing artwork (folder.jpg). It will optionally rename the movie folder and create any combination of dvdid.xml, mymovies.xml and\or nfo file. All meta information and artwork is provided via [url=http://themoviedb.org/]The Movie DB[/url]. If you haven’t checked [url=http://themoviedb.org/]tmdb[/url] out please do so and contribute where possible.

I created Yammm because I haven’t used any meta manager that runs completely without user interaction and used folder.jpg instead of custom artwork locations. This is important to me as I use various HTPC software depending on the situation and development (VMC, 7MC, Boxee, XMBC, SageTV). I also found that most did not match well. Yammm uses various checks other than [url=http://tmdb.org/]tmdb[/url]’s score value including a SoundEx.

Folder Structure

Yammm currently only looks as movie folders. This means as a folder is checked the name will be used for matching. A folder name is broken into three parts. The title, year and “tags”. i.e. For “Cidade de Deus (2002) [City of God] [Director’s Cut]” the year is 2002, the tags are City of God and Director’s Cut and the title is “Cidade de Deus”. Yammm will ignore any tags when searching for a matching movie but will preserve them when renaming the folder.

Movie Rename

Yammm will optionally rename matching movie folders to “Title (Year) [Tags]”. If the movie is a foreign film Yammm will also attempt to append the local title as a tag. i.e. “City of God” will be renamed to “Cidade de Deus (2002) [City of God]”.

Notes:

– Required .NET Fx 3.5 SP1
– Rename and image overwrite is disabled by default.
– Requires admin rights to the movie folders and admin rights to run Yammm Config.
– Currently only detects movies
– Currently only supports a single rename format: “Title (Year) [Tags]
– Run the Yammm Config application to Add\Remove Watched Folders
– Meta XML files will not be overwritten, I will update soon with an option to update missing information for existing meta files (i.e. dvdid.xml, mymovies.xml, …
– In your install directory will be an command line application for testing or running Yammm, YammmCmd.
– ToDo: Allow saved usernames\passwords for connecting to remote shares
– I purposely did not include a way to manually edit the meta data.  Please help the community and contribute to [url=http://themoviedb.org/]The Movie DB[/url].

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