ed
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How do you arrange your video files? iTunes arranges my music into a nice folder arrangement and XBMC will connect to iTunes on my PC to stream music for me which is fine. However my video files are in a group of folders, but I've noticed that on XBMC you can somehow have a DVD cover view which holds all the info about the movie. Can iTunes sort all that out for me too, or would I have to add all the info manually?
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Dom
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All my movies are in their own directories (under the main movie/film directory) and that's the prefered way of doing it for XBMC (and WMC etc). Again, TV Shows should be done in a similar way with each show having it's own directory and then each season having it's own directory under that.
It's also worth using meta<browser/> application, as it'll automatically get metadata and covers (HD & SD sizes) for your films/tv shows (as long as you have the above directory structure) - XBMC (& WMC) will use this if it's available.
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ed
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Good call on meta<browser/>, cheers 
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Mike GSi
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Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Drives:Astra VXR
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I have Media Center but havent ever used it  is it any good?
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ed
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What Media Centre do you have?
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Aaron
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Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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TBH, my media centre is just a standard install of Windows XP...and because i'm a uber nerd...i access my films/tv shows/music from a network drive on my server 
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noshua
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Aaron - you might want to take a look at XBMC - if you like your media looking nice 
ed; take a look at the XBMC forum, there are various tools that will organise your media for you, as well as a getting the required data to make it look nice (XBMC specific tools).
edit; http://xbmc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=116
I think last time I ran the library I use xbmcNFO, I think I used another tool to organise my films and tv series into correct folders as well, I just can't remember the name.
[Edited on 14-12-2009 by noshua]
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