The Dune HD line of media streamers are lauded for their versatility and feature set, but much of that attention tends to fall on the hardware. This is probably because the Dune HD media streamers generally have a somewhat utiltarian UI. It works and it works well, but it might lack the visual pizzazz that many HTPC fans have come […]
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Folks using Media Center Master for managing metadata can look forward to an update the next time fire up the program. Version 1.34 has been issued via auto-update. There’s no sign of the usual changelog post in the MCM forums, but evidently the update fixes an issue accessing NZBMatrix.com which will good news for premium MCM users who use NZBMatrix.com […]
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Media Browser will be changing their metadata XML file name to movie.xml with the next release, codenamed Apollo. The change comes in response to a change made by My Movies in their most recent release. I hadn’t noticed the change in the My Movies version 4.02 release notes, but the My Movies team has decided to start encrypting their own […]
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MPC MediaFile Premium, an application for organizing media files and metadata, has been updated to version 1.2. I started using MPC MediaFile a couple of months ago for sorting my disorganized TV episodes into a proper folder structure and have been pretty impressed with it. The new version adds several new features including support for VIDEO_TS folders, native Media Center DVD Library metadata, […]
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‘Tis the season of updates. Fresh on the heels of the updates to My Movies and Media Browser comes an update to Media Center Master, one of the more popular metadata editors that serve to complement those media management programs so well. The basic version of Media Center Master is available for free, but one of the best features of the premium […]
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For those of you who have followed our recent guide on using the native movie library in 7MC, you might have noticed that some of your coverart is missing from movies recorded on live TV. The issue seems to be that the server 7MC was using to download the coverart has changed its url but 7MC is still using the old address. […]
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While there are certainly a number of options when it comes to movie management within Microsoft Windows 7 Media Center (7MC) such as My Movies, Media Browser, etc., one of the simplest is the included native movie library. This guide will cover the following: What types of files can be added to the library How to add files to the […]
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