Summary

MeediFier for MeediOS is a multi-purpose entertainment media importer and updater plugin which aims to provide a complete solution for Meedio and MeediOS users to easily import and acquire meta-information for their media collections.

The plugin currently supports importing media files and downloading media information for:

• Movies
• TV Series / TV Shows
• Music
• Shoutcast Radio Stations
• PC Games
• E-books
• RSS Feeds

 

Capabilities & Features

Targets both MeediOS and Meedio:

• All of the features of this importer plugin will work well on both the old Meedio home theater application and it’s succesor, MeediOS.

Intelligent & adaptive media files importer:

• Compared to traditional file importing plugins (tag mask importers), MeediFier’s built-in media files importer:
• Needs very minimal initial configuration (only needs to know the location of user’s media collection on disk).
• Recognizes and imports only media files of interest within the specified root directories, ignoring non-media files or files which do not belong to the desired media type. (film, tv episode or music)
• The file importing algorithm works completely idependently from video/audio extensions ensuring that you ‘ll never have to specify any, and also that any media file which the system is able to playback will be imported regardless of it’s file extension.
• Distinguishes media types of interest inside directories which contain mixed content, eliminating the need of manual media collection organizing.

Audio Tag importer:

• Extracts the track information contained in the audio file’s IDV3 tags and imports them in their respective library tags.
• Has the ability to embed downloaded information and/or album cover into the audio file’s IDV3 tags.

Media format Information importer:

• Similarly to the popular MediaInfo plugin, this process will analyze your media files and import media information like video/audio formats and bitrate qualities. Most modern themes display this information graphically on the frontend’s interface.

Built-in filenames parser and cleaner:

• Inspired from the SmartMovieSorter and SmartSeriesSorter plugins, the purpose of this sub-process is to detect the media material’s title from the filesystem and extract adittional information about the material which will later help the online identifier to recognize and import details for the media product More specifically:
• Cleans the filenames of media files from release format tags, and extracts the media’s actual title.
• Locates media identification information like a film’s production year and IMDb id or a tv episode’s number and season number. This crucial information then helps the built-in online details downloader to automatically identify the media file without requiring user assistance.
• Parses .nfo files existing in a film’s or music album’s directory and extracts required media identification information further increasing matching acurracy.

Media details and cover art downloader:

• Matches the media file’s unique hash or ‘fingerprint’ with online databases (OSdb and MusicIP) to identify films, tv episodes and music.
• Requires no previously existing information for the media file to recognize it and tremendously maximizes the identifier’s acurracy and minimizes the need of identifying assistance from the user.
• Downloads media information from multiple online databases: – imdb.com, themoviedb.org and opensubtitles.org for films. – thetvdb.com and imdb.com for tv series.
• Downloads cover art and frontend backdrops fully unattended from the following online sources: (switching between them as necessary) – themoviedb.org, ImpAwards and IMDb for films. – thetvdb.com for tv shows & tv series.
• Provides ability to disable unattended operation on the fly, letting you select your preferred cover image from the found images on all sources.
• Saves film description .xml files on sucessful identification. In case the user’s Films media section is re-imported from scratch, the plugin will acquire the required information from these descriptors, skipping the online lookup and significantly decrease importing time.

Automated video subtitles downloader:

• Downloads from OpenSubtitles.org synchronized subtitles for your films or tv episodes in your preferred language(s).
• The video fingerprint matching algorithm ensures that the subtitles will always be perfectly synchronized to the particular version of your film.
• Allows to specify an alternative language in case no subtitles are found for your primary language.

Media Organizer:

• Automatically sorts (renames and moves) identified media files to your specified locations for each media type according to your desired filesystem structure.

Library Cleaner:

• Automatically deletes library items which refer to non-existent (deleted) media files.
• The built-in network diagnostics will ensure that files residing on offline drives will not be accidentaly deleted.
• Optionally removes empty library section tags ensuring a cleaner media section and faster library accessing opearations.
• Scans and links together multiple video files which constitute a single film. This process ensures that those video files will be chained together even if a previously used file importer was unable to do so.

Archive Extractor:

• Automatically extracts compressed archives contained in the specified media locations and imports any media files of interest they contain. Optionally deletes extracted archives. Is also able to mantain a user-specified free space amount.

Media Archiver:

• Optionally compresses and stores in your specified location a compressed archive for each already watched film, (containing the entire film’s directory) for disk space and archiving purposes.
• Each archived film is removed from the media library, ensuring that only new material is displayed in the frontend.

Miscellaneous:

• Intelligently detects media files which reside on a network disk and skips them if your file server or network disk is offline.
• Built-in internet connection and databases availability diagnostics, to cut down retrying delays and prevent connection errors.

Download from OpenMAID

Download from GitHub

Download from this website: MeediFier for MeediOS v0.7.8 Beta