Organize Digital Video Library (Movies and TV Shows): Part-2 Scrape

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Artwork, Cast, Digital, Fanart, File Management, IMDB, Internet Movie Database, Kodi, Library, Media, Movie, Organize, Plex, Plot, Poster, Scraper, Television program, Tips, Trailer, Tricks, TVDB, Video, Windows, Windows Media Center, XBMC

tinyMediaManager screenshot

I’m sorry for taking too long to finish the second part of this series. I realize now that a lot of the media renamer tools from the previous post is obsolete or there are better alternatives. Also, some of them are not compatible across all OS. In this post, I will show you how to use media scraper (tinyMediaManager)

Organize Digital Video Library (Movies and TV Shows): Part-1 Rename

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Digital, File Management, IMDB, Internet Movie Database, Library, Movie, Organize, Plex, Television program, Tips, Tricks, TVDB, Video, Windows, Windows Media Center, XBMC

Movie Folders Organized – Windows

Do you want your digital video library to look as good as this?

Media Companion Movie Metadata

Do you want to scrape your media for metadata (download metadata and artwork of TV shows and Movies) locally so that it is compatible with most media players and media center softwares such as Plex Media Center, XBMC, Windows Media Center, etc.?

tv show naming and organization

movie naming and organization

For this, you have to first prepare your media files (rename and arrange in proper directory structures) in a way that makes the job of media scrappers easier. Cheeck if your videos follow this Media Naming and Organization Guide for Plex. XBMC expects similar format when scrapping metadata for your media – XBMC Media Naming Format.

But don’t worry, you don’t have to rename the files manually if you don’t have them in standard format. The following tools will help you automate the process of renaming and moving the files to proper directories:

1. theRenamer
2. MediaManager

Track your emails without asking the receiver to send read receipt

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Bananatag, Chrome, Email, Email tracking, Firefox, Gmail, graphical tools, HTML, integration applications, Mail, Outlook, receipt confirmation, SpyPig, Tips, tracking, Tricks

I  have come across two wonderful services which lets you track emails you send and be notified when, where (city/country) and how (desktop/mobile) the email was read.

1. SpyPig

Spypig notification

Spypig service comes in handy if you want to track your email and want to know exactly when your email was read. It can also give you information such as receiver’s location, ip address and application used to read the mail.

SpyPig is a free email tracking tool that notifies you as soon as your recipient opens your email message. SpyPig is dedicated to all those paranoid individuals out there who can’t stand wondering all day if their VIE (Very Important Email) has been read or not.

Why you should use Download Manager

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Bandwidth, Browser, Download manager, Download Speed, Google Chrome, Internet, Internet Download Manager, Site Grabber, software, Tips, Tricks, Web browser, YouTube, Youtube Video Download

Internet Download Manager

Have you ever observed that you are not getting full speed while downloading something. Well, the reason is when you start a download from a browser, your browser usually opens a single stream to download the file. So even if you have 10Mbps connection, but the file server has limited the speed to 1Mbps per stream, your download speed will be limited to 1Mbps. But if you use a good download manager such as Internet Download Manager, it tries to download streams of the file in parallel, so the download is faster.

Create partition for Xbox 360 without formatting or converting USB hard disk to Fat32

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external usb hard disk, Fat32, gaming, Microsoft, NTFS, Partition, Partition Wizard, software, Storage, Tricks, USB, Xbox 360

External USB Storage Disk

I have an external hard disk with NTFS file system which is nearly full of “important” stuff and I want to use it with my Xbox 360. But when I looked up online for a guide to do it, all the guides required the hard disk to either have Fat32 file system or required me to format the hard drive and create a Fat32 partition. [e.g., Guide-1, Guide-2, Guide-3, …]. Because Fat32 file-system has certain limitation, it doesn’t allow files over 4GB size and I did not want to lose such files. Besides, NTFS is way better than Fat32. But I din’t find any guide which allowed to keep my existing data without converting the file system to Fat32. Here is the reason all the guides required to have Fat32 file system only – because Microsoft Xbox 360 simply won’t support a file system developed by Microsoft and supposed to supersede Fat32. Bummer! Isn’t it?

But after experimenting with a SanDisk 8GB pen drive and a spare Western Digital 750GB Hard disk, I came up with an original (at least I think it is original) solution.