Media Companion

Media Companion is a media management application designed to organize movie and television show collections. The software automates the downloading of metadata, posters, and backdrop images for local video files.

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• Movie Management. Automatically identifies movie files and fills in missing information. Downloads titles, synopses, cast, ratings, and release dates from online databases. Organizes files into consistently named folders.
• TV Series Organization. Analyzes television episodes and assigns corresponding metadata. Recognizes seasons and episode numbers to structure the library. Maintains a local database with all program information.
• Image Downloading. Retrieves posters, wallpapers, and fanart images for each item in the collection. Supports multiple image sources and allows manual selection from different options available online.
• Kodi Compatibility. Generates NFO files compatible with the Kodi media player. Creates a folder structure recognized by Kodi for direct integration without any additional configuration required.
• File Renaming. Applies customizable naming rules to video files. Allows defining specific name patterns to maintain a consistent format throughout the media library.
• Automatic Searching. Locates information from sources like TheTVDB for series and TMDb for movies. Corrects misidentifications through manual searches with specific terms when automatic identification fails.
• Multiple Format Management. Works with various video formats including AVI, MKV, MP4, and DVD formats. Processes files regardless of the video or audio codec used in their encoding.
• Library Updating. Periodically scans directories to detect newly added content. Updates existing metadata when there are changes in online databases or local modifications.
• Manual Editing Interface. Provides tools to manually modify any metadata field. Allows correcting incorrect information or completing data not found during automatic searches.
• Scraping Configuration. Offers advanced options to customize information search behavior. Allows selecting priority sources and adjusting content identification parameters.
• Trailer Management. Downloads movie previews from online sources and associates them with the corresponding files. Keeps trailers organized within the media library's folder structure.
• Multilingual Support. Settings to download metadata in different languages according to user preferences. Adapts textual information and images to specific regions when available.

Media Companion's development began in 2008 by programmer BGbennyboy, with the project hosted on SourceForge where other developers later joined the development; the application is built using the Visual Basic .NET programming language on Microsoft's .NET framework.

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