MediaCenterMaster Over To ThumbGen

[DjPhreeze]

Good Morning all,

SO, I am just about to make the switch from my PS3 over to a WDTV Live (with LX firmware, of course!) but had a question about my metadata.

I have around x350 movies, and about x5 complete TV show seasons in my collection, all on a 1TB extranl HD.

Over the past few weeks I have generated complete data (as far as I know) for my collection via Media Center Master as this is what I have used all along, until now ... Using MCM produces the following;
- movie.xml (contains all IMDB info and ratings etc)
- folder.jpg (dvd/blu cover)
- background.jpg
(-background2.jpg, background3.jpg etc - if available!)
(*** I believe the above is the correct output, although cannot check currently as at work ***)
It seems from reading this forum (and all over the web) that I simply will not be able to use this data as is, and will need to convert it somewhat?!

I read that if I use the 'Generate XBMC .xml' sheet from 'Tools' in MCM that it should create something similar to what ThumbGen needs, but what I really want to know is should I just delete ALL my generated metadata so far and start again with ThumbGen? I am a perfectionist so it has to look right - and if I hjave to delete all metadata and start again I will but I would rather not!

Thanks in advance,

G.

[DjPhreeze]

Anyone?

[thumbgen]

Don't delete any file that has valuable data inside!

Email me a sample from each of the files you mentioned and I'll have a look as soon as I get a free time frame

[DjPhreeze]

What's your email buddy? I'll have it over tomorrow

[thumbgen]

thumbgen [at] googlemail.com

[Dizzy49]

Any movement on this?

I'm about to add a couple HTPCs with XBMC on them to my house, along with one more WDTV, and I'd love to be able to use MCM to generate the metadata for everything, and for my XBMC stuff, and then use TG to take that info and generate moviesheets quickly/easily to reside in the folders as well. Then the WDTVs and HTPCs will live together happily

[DjPhreeze]

Hi, no, admittidly - I just restarted the whole thing ...

It seems MCM and TG are quite different in how they operate so just started over with TG.