Features

MediaElch is your Media Manager for handling Movies, TV Shows and Concerts/Music Videos in XBMC.

It is designed to gather information from various movie databases on the internet and store these information directly to XBMCs database or in nfo files. MediaElch is also downloading movie posters, backdrops, fan arts and pictures of the actors as well as trailers.

Summary

  • Download information from internet databases
  • Multiple Scrapers supported
  • Edit Movies, TV Shows and Concerts/Music Videos
  • Manage Movie Sets
  • Bulk edit genres and certifications
  • Compatible with XBMC v12 “Frodo” and XBMC v11 “Eden”
  • Can handle NFO (xml) files
  • Cross Platform (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows)
  • Basic command line interface
  • Support for images from fanart.tv
  • Integrated trailer downloader
  • Integrated TV Themes downloader
  • Compatible with “Movie Set Artwork Automator“
  • Compatible with “TV Tunes Addon“

Upcoming/Planned Features

  • Full database export (CSV and HTML)
  • Tagging of music files
  • SABnzbd/Couchpotato/SickBeard integration
  • Downloading of subtitles
  • Custom Scrapers
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Testimonials

_J@n_
_J@n_ XBMC Forum
Switch to ME and you will enjoy a superb package with plenty of development :D
alspoll
alspoll XBMC Forum
Awesome release. Great job. Thanks for listening to our feedback!!!!
Temhil
Temhil XBMC Forum
Thank you very much for this 1.5 version. Especially the optional column part, I love it!
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Download

Mac OS X

Download MediaElch 1.6 for Mac OS X (repackaged)

Windows

Download MediaElch 1.6 for Windows

Linux

Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kvibes/mediaelch
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mediaelch

OpenSuSE 12.1 & 12.2: http://software.opensuse.org/package/MediaElch

ArchLinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mediaelch/

Compiling from source

Users of other distributions currently have to compile the source on their own. Download the source code or get it from GitHub and compile:

mediaelch-1.6.tar.gz

git clone https://github.com/Komet/MediaElch.git
cd MediaElch
qmake && make

Some required packages must be installed before compiling. These are the Qt development headers and for sure a compiler. A (not complete) list for Ubuntu is

libqt4-dev qt4-qmake libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-script libqt4-xml libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-network libmediainfo-dev libzen-dev libphonon-dev libphonon4 libquazip0 libquazip0-dev

Changelog

Have a look the the Changelog to see changes and bugfixes during releases.

Bugs & Feature Requests

If you found a bug or wish to see some features just drop me a line support@mediaelch.de.

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