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How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!
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So I lost all my data and thus I am starting again, I suppose in a way it is a good thing as I can get better quality films now
Backup backup backup! External hard drives are so cheap these days
I use iCloud, my 40 movies are from iTunes, no fuss, no hassle, no fixing tags, no extra hard disk for this. Plus my UV movies that I have are around 50 others + TV shows, way to many digital movies to save on a HD for me.
Movies - 274 all with artwork and metadata. Using iDentify 2.
Music - 6059 files, in a total mess. Poor tagging, lack of artwork, poor artwork. Music that I will never listen to as imported albums en masse and genres I don't like anymore. A recommendation of software to use for metadata?
TV Shows - Approx 800GB of TV all in mixed avi, MP4 and MKV all getting converted/muxed to M4V. Using MP4Tools, Handbrake, iDentify 2 and subler.
Will all be worth it in the end when I have this set-up:
Mac Mini to ATV on the 50", great snappy and clean interface.
Mac Mini stream to iPads, iPhones.
Wireless iTunes sync incorporating all media - at the moment its just music.
Goals:
Eliminate the TV in our bedroom, freeing up some space.
Ease of media transfer.
Proper tagging of all media.
HD library to get the best out of the devices.
No more than around 1TB-1.5TB.
Music - 6059 files, in a total mess. Poor tagging, lack of artwork, poor artwork. Music that I will never listen to as imported albums en masse and genres I don't like anymore. A recommendation of software to use for metadata?
TV Shows - Approx 800GB of TV all in mixed avi, MP4 and MKV all getting converted/muxed to M4V. Using MP4Tools, Handbrake, iDentify 2 and subler.
Will all be worth it in the end when I have this set-up:
Mac Mini to ATV on the 50", great snappy and clean interface.
Mac Mini stream to iPads, iPhones.
Wireless iTunes sync incorporating all media - at the moment its just music.
Goals:
Eliminate the TV in our bedroom, freeing up some space.
Ease of media transfer.
Proper tagging of all media.
HD library to get the best out of the devices.
No more than around 1TB-1.5TB.
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2 power applications for you to consider to help you on our quest!
HandBrakeBatch - Uses handbrake in the background & allows you to batch convert multiple files by just dragging and dropping. Unlike handbrake, where you have to do each file individually. A lifesaver for converting TV series.
MKV Tools - Strips the MKV file of the Video & Audio files, and puts it into a MP4 wrapper. So much quicker than re-encoding the whole file like handbrake.
I also use identify & sublet, great apps
I use a script like this:
And then something like Hazel to automatically run the script when a file is present that can be converted.
PHP:
#!/bin/bash
sourcedir="/Users/homedir/Downloads/Completed"
destdir="/Users/homedir/Downloads/Completed"
cd "$sourcedir"
for i in *.mp4; do
/usr/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i "$i" -o "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v" --preset="AppleTV 2"
mv "$i" ~/.Trash
open -a "Identify" "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v"
done
for i in *.avi; do
/usr/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i "$i" -o "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v" --preset="AppleTV 2"
mv "$i" ~/.Trash
open -a "Identify" "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v"
done
for i in *.mkv; do
/usr/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i "$i" -o "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v" --preset="AppleTV 2"
mv "$i" ~/.Trash
open -a "Identify" "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v"
done
for i in *.wmv; do
/usr/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i "$i" -o "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v" --preset="AppleTV 2"
mv "$i" ~/.Trash
open -a "Identify" "$destdir/${i%.*}.m4v"
doneAnd then something like Hazel to automatically run the script when a file is present that can be converted.
iTunes
Hello, how did you put your movies in order, they seem like they are not in alphabetical order (like skyfall , the bourne legacy...)
Can you help me ? I can't figure it out !
All are 1080p HD blu-ray rips. Just got over the 100 mark!!
Hello, how did you put your movies in order, they seem like they are not in alphabetical order (like skyfall , the bourne legacy...)
Can you help me ? I can't figure it out !
Music: 175GB All in Apple Lossless
Movies: 700GB No less than 720p.
TV Shows: 1.2TB No less than DVD quality.
And growing by the day. None of it is in iTunes though. It has been carefully organized via folder structure, and Plex Media Server handles metadata.
Movies: 700GB No less than 720p.
TV Shows: 1.2TB No less than DVD quality.
And growing by the day. None of it is in iTunes though. It has been carefully organized via folder structure, and Plex Media Server handles metadata.
You do this through the Get Info screen in iTunes (either right-click a given movie and select Get Info, select File and Get Info, or Command + I). In the Get Info window, click the Sorting tab. You'll see two fields, one for Name and one for Sort Name. Name is the title that will appear in iTunes, but Sort Name is what iTunes will use for organizing. For example:
Name: Dr. No
Sort Name: James Bond 1
Name: From Russia With Love
Sort Name: James Bond 2
And so on. In the library, the titles will read Dr. No, From Russia With Love, etc., but they'll be listed under J.
It's also helpful for fixing the annoying (for me at least) convention iTunes began a while back of listing numbered titles after Z instead of before A. So all my titles that begin with numbers have a sort name that begins with "a-":
Name: 12 Monkeys
Sort Name: a- 12 Monkeys
Name: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Sort Name: a- 2001: A Space Odyssey
etc.
I use an app on my Jailbroken ipad called MovieBox and AirPlay all my movies. MovieBox has TONS of movies and TV shows ready to be streamed or Downloaded in Hd
Even though that app is great for airplaying to an aTV; this is not the thread for it.
Hey Guys
I am kinda new to iTunes movies, how do i find cover art for movies which you cannot buy from the iTunes store like Star wars.
I am kinda new to iTunes movies, how do i find cover art for movies which you cannot buy from the iTunes store like Star wars.
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Easiest way is to just search google images and find the best cover.
You can use a third party tagging application like "identify" which automatically adds cover art to your movies a long with all the relevant meta data like genre, rating, director etc