Program to manage movies/series (like Calibre)

VirtualRider · 2011-02-18 19:56:04

Hi,

i wonder if there is a program to comfortable manage my series/movies.
I'm looking for a easy way to tell which movie/episode i've already watched.
Calibre does this for my books very well but i couldn't find something similar.

Yes, a simple textfile could do this but hey - where's the fun that way?

Thanks
VR

Viper_Scull · 2011-02-21 18:00:33

I dont know how Calibre works nor if this is gonna work for you either, but Filebot is the most series-friendly software i've found in Linux.

jdarnold · 2011-02-21 18:37:28

Maybe Miro would do it for you?

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … po=&q=miro

VirtualRider · 2011-02-24 08:16:43

Well that wasn't was i'm looking for, but both programs are very interesting (especially miro) and i havn't had heard about them before - so thank you both for your contribution.

I guess there is no such tool out there to manage Movies, yet.

Last edited by VirtualRider (2011-02-24 08:17:08)

splippity · 2011-02-24 11:59:47

dont understand exactly what your trying to do that cannot already be done by a program but from my understanding heres a couple possibilities: Tellico and MeDs Movie Manager
http://xmm.sourceforge.net/index.php?menu=main
http://tellico-project.org/

both arent so good if you want cover art and info for tv shows but hopefully that will be fixed sometime. I previously used MeDs to manage my 1400 movies/tv series but now use Tellico.

I know you can make stuff as watched with MeDs but never looked into it with Tellico.... but since you can make custom fields in Tellico you could just make a check box and check it whenever you watch something.
I switched to Tellico because of the flexibility and the fact that MeDs development is at a stand still. Having the shear number of movies/tv shows I organize the file locations and made a check box to sort out the tv from the movies.
hope that might help you. gl.

Odaer · 2011-02-26 13:34:12

Maybe Bangarang

jack.mitchell · 2011-03-03 10:53:12

If you are wanting to go the whole hog then XBMC is a fantastic 'media center' program which will tag your movies and tv episodes as and when you've watched them.

ANOKNUSA · 2011-03-03 17:25:45

Ah, Calibre is a KDE program... in any case, it looks like Tellico may be what you're looking for. Tellico doesn't specifically organize TV shows/movies, but large collections in general.

upsidaisium · 2011-03-04 02:29:41

VirtualRider wrote:

I'm looking for a easy way to tell which movie/episode i've already watched.
Calibre does this for my books very well but i couldn't find something similar.
Yes, a simple textfile could do this but hey - where's the fun that way?

I vote for the simple text file, or -- better yet -- simply remember what you've watched already

But.. if you can't remember that you've watched a particular episode or movie, then do you even remember what happened in that episode/movie?

VirtualRider · 2011-03-04 09:03:20

upsidaisium wrote:

But.. if you can't remember that you've watched a particular episode or movie, then do you even remember what happened in that episode/movie?

I would probably remember what happened not later than in the middle of the episode, and then be annoyed to 'wasted' the time Sure i forget things, but i'm getting into it again while watching the next season of something. If i wouldn't remember anything after watching an episode i'd be glad that i would only have to buy exactly one season in my lifetime!

For the rest of you, i havn't had the time to look at your suggested programs, but thanks so far!

Last edited by VirtualRider (2011-03-04 09:03:57)

dmz · 2011-03-04 10:01:42

jack.mitchell wrote:

If you are wanting to go the whole hog then XBMC is a fantastic 'media center' program which will tag your movies and tv episodes as and when you've watched them.

Indeed.

I've asked the same question though, but what I wanted was something that could indicate wheater I've seen it just by looking at the ls/find/etc output. So, this is what I do; I set the sticky bit on the directory (well, actually I set 01700) and can therefore use the LS_COLORS environment variable for modifying the color only for watched items. Like so;

I made a script ( https://github.com/trapd00r/utils/blob/master/punpack ) that unpacks, plays and marks the film as watched for convience.

arctos · 2011-03-05 16:31:19

Maybe SeriesFinale or smewt will help you

Series finale: http://www.joaquimrocha.com/2010/12/19/ … /#comments
Smewt: http://www.smewt.com/

VirtualRider · 2011-03-09 16:03:13

Seriesfinale seems to be very promising, unfortunately there's no working PKGBUILD for it right now (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110346, couldn't make it work either)

But there is Series Watcher - a clone of that program, which is available in AUR. I think i'll stick with it for now.

vanvalium · 2011-03-09 17:20:44

VirtualRider wrote:

Yes, a simple textfile could do this but hey - where's the fun that way?

It's a lot of fun
I use orgmode for that and just link to the imdb pages from the files

flan_suse · 2011-03-18 16:03:28

There's also GCstar. Not as flashy as the others, but has many templates to choose from: books, movies, games, wines, etc.

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