Imorting hundreds of AVI-s

snowbound · Post by **snowbound** » 2011-06-03 23:05:16

an unhandled exception error occurred. maybe this doesnt work on win7? do you have an update maybe?

I'm on XP and got the same. It simply doesn't work. I can't believe there is no simple solution to this. All it has to do is scan a drive and add the files it finds...

reikiki · Post by **reikiki** » 2011-07-12 22:25:17

@snowbound : Obviously there is no simple solution. I'm like you, I find that totally incredible. I search the internet for a software to list my movies, everywhere I asked they answered "AMC".
I installed it, and "Ok, now how to import my movies, hundreds of movies ?". First, I'm very surprised there is no native solution : scan and add everything you find with a correct extension.
Second, I'm very surprised there is no script doing this easily. I tried the .bat solution, it replaces all the unicodes caracters with "?"... nice.

So... I'm just living AMC, it doesn't worth 10 more seconds of my time. Excel and dir /s will do better, faster work.

Post by **antp** » 2011-07-13 21:00:53

The program was made when people were using CDs or DVDs to store movies.
It is only since a few years that HDDs are cheap enough to be used rather than optical medias.
But as the program hasn't really be updated since these last few years, that feature which seems important now is missing.

Irish_john · Post by **Irish_john** » 2011-08-27 06:57:45

A very basic solution is:

Type cmd into run box
at dos prompt type letter of drive follow by : eg "H:"
now type "cd\"
next type "dir /s >movies.csv"
Next opeb Excel and import this file selecting fixed width fields
Once data is in, do something like a replace with wildcard (*) to clean file up.
Now save it again, making sure you have selected csv as type when saving (probably safer to use "Save As" option.
Now import into Ant.!!

doveman · Post by **doveman** » 2011-09-17 10:13:24

I've found AVIList works very well, except that I have my files named "Title (Year)" or sometimes "Title (Director's Cut) (Year)" and AviList doesn't get the Year data from these files but leaves all the bracketed information as part of the Title.

I think this sort of file-naming scheme is quite common, so does anyone know a way to handle it? Obviously the scheme has to be consistent, but ideally I'd want to be able to either automatically identify the second bracketed information as the Year, or alternatively I could change the first set of brackets to something else such as square brackets, and then the normal brackets could be used to identify the Year. MediaPortal's MovingPictures plugin correctly identifies the Year, but perhaps it get's this from IMDB rather than the file.

doveman · Post by **doveman** » 2011-10-05 12:07:53

Bump. Anyone know how to handle this problem?

Guzzi · Post by **Guzzi** » 2011-12-10 23:14:59

doveman wrote:Bump. Anyone know how to handle this problem?

AMCupdater can do that for you - if you just want to import the movies to AMC database, just disable all internet related fields (and even the media info related ones) and it will import all into AMC very fast. year/imdb in filename should be recognized.
With latest version, it even imports "Edition" if you want (and have it in the filen ame/directory name).

kartola · Post by **kartola** » 2012-10-28 09:19:19

If someone want to just import movies filename into AMC you can use the script Filenamecleaner+.
You can find it here: viewtopic.php?t=5165&sid=9394de983d14e2 ... d86c1e8972
You don't need to install mediaportal or something else.

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