Media Companion 3.720b x86 & x64.

Build 3.7.2.0

Date Compiled: 2018-09-21

Release Notes:

A Few more Bug Fixes.

Previous release just as there was some major changes to note:

A lot of work has been going on to get as much rating information into the nfo's as possible.

Specifically, the use of OMDBApi to retrieve the Rotten Tomato Audience and Critic ratings. To enable Rotten Tomato retrieval, users of Media Companion will need to obtain their own OMDbAPI Key. Why you ask. Well, OMDBApi key has limitation if you have the free key (1000 api calls daily), else users can pay for more api calls depending on their requirements. See http://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx for more details (follow Become a Patron for extra options)

Also, much more work has been completed on fanart.tv artwork, naming of this artwork, and retrieval of images for Movies and also Movie Collections. I have added a field that users can add their own client Key from Fanart.TV. Again, why? you ask?? Fanart.TV has a Project key (already installed in Media Companion), and allows for Client keys (or user keys). If both are used, then Fanart.Tv offers earlier access to newer images. This is best explained on their blog at https://fanart.tv/2015/01/personal-api-keys/

Collection artwork has had an overhaul, with options to save to a Central Folder, Central Folder with Collection sub-folder, and also naming as <moviesetname>-arttype. Collection artwork present is now shown in the ExtraArtwork listbox.....as well as the presence of Animated poster or Animated fanart images.

Animated Poster or Fanart needs to be named as <moviename>-animatedposter.gif etc, or <moviesetname>-animatedfanart.gif for Media Companion to identify they are present. At this time, there is no scraper for Animated artwork, but this is being worked. See the Kodi forum thread for more details. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=215727

So, as usual with this amount of changes, there is the chance of bugs. Please, post up ASAP if you find any with instructions on how to duplicate.

Enjoy!

New:

Fixed:

• MC - Remove option to get IMDB ratings from OMDB. We get this directly from IMDb.
• Movie - Shift options IMDB Id and RT ratings via OMDB from Common tab to Movie Scraper tab, IMDb scraper options.
• Movie - Fix ratings from IMDB if only option selected on TMDb scraper settings.
• Movie - Fix Rescrape button on Movie tab, failed to initialize TMDb correctly.
• TV - Fix logic which rating is default for series and episodes.
• TV - Fix error if removing apostrophe character code, and string is nothing.
• TV - If RottenTomato ratings are 'N/A' then don't return RT ratings.