Version v4.3.16
x fix writing localized genres into NFO
x fix Kodi RPC calls on invalid entries
x re-write NFO after new artwork has been set #2505
x up...
x fix writing localized genres into NFO
x fix Kodi RPC calls on invalid entries
x re-write NFO after new artwork has been set #2505
x up...
x fix chinese language for simplified/traditional
x ignore movies with invalid datasource in KodiRPC
x added the array renderer to the export ...
x upgraded libmediainfo to 23.09
x adapt IMDB parsing due to changed site
x dropping DavesTrailerPage scraper, since Apple closed their traile...
+ MediaInfo: also support their sidecar file naming
+ improve ID detection from file-/folder name
x several fixes for IMDb
x fix NFO nam...
x (FFmpeg) set correct artwork metadata for the enhanced artwork download algorithm #2181
x added an action to export internal data for issue analys...
x some fixes/enhancements on the automatic artwork download algorithm #2182, #2184
x use “date added” as default date for Trakt.tv sync #2183
...
+ added Chinese (Singapore) to the scraper languages #2142
+ (renamer) audioChannels in “dot” notation (6ch -> 5.1)
+ (bulk edit) remember ...
+ added new “unique” array renderer
+ (FFmpeg) added some variance to create different thumbs everytime #2137
x improved loading speed of movi...
x (TVDB) only scrape the requested certification code
x fix duplicate filter with movie sets scraped from TMDB #2024
x fixed parsing language ...
+ added new <episodeguide> style for Kodi v19+ - https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=370489 (http://bit.ly/3IIJZLV)
+ added an option to ...
Starting with v4.3.8 tinyMediaManager offers a new JMTE renderer which allows the usage multiple JMTE renderers for one token. The syntax for the new rend...
Kodi (and its scrapers) has some drawbacks for the <episodeguide> information which will be written in the NFO files. The information in the <epi...
x better detect and parse movie structures #1932
x fixed changing of tags in episodes #1955
x (IMDB) make cleaner calls to avoid HTTP 403 resp...
+ added reloading of mediainfo to the commandline interface
+ Subtitles: also parse language from filename, if MediaInfo detects none #1947
+ ...
+ added the “date added” column to the movie set table #1937
+ IMDB serves different search result pages - parse other one too
x fixed wrong d...
+ added the ID of the movie/TV show to the search results #1824
+ added a renamer token for TV show genres and TV show/episode ratings #1874
+...
+ redesign the file type panel
+ added Top 250 column to the movie list #1838
x fix displaying correct runtime for disc folders
x preser...
+ redesign artwork type naming panel
x check for existing ID when using MPDb.TV scraper (metadata & artwork)
x fixed aspect ratio detectio...
x removed copying of file attributes which resulted in inaccessible artwork #1835
x fix for handling disc files not in their expected folder
x...
+ added an action to scrape ratings from multiple scrapers #1672 (https://bit.ly/3yDBRY8)
+ fetch all possible IDs & ratings when scraping #1672...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 offers a new enhancement for the search field in the movie module: similar to JMTE you can access to several different properties of...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 introduces a new way to get multiple ratings at once. Up to now we could only offer the rating from the scraper itself along with IM...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 introduces a new (experimental) HTTP API to remote control a running instance. The HTTP API can be used to remotely (or periodically...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 added a way to enhance the JMTE syntax with regular expressions. You can use this regular expression annot...
+ enabled multi line notes #1710
+ updated libmediainfo to 22.03
+ added a renamer token for movie set index respecting missing movies #1702
+ added an action to rewrite movie set NFO files
x fix startup problems if your Kodi RPC credentials are wrong
x fix MediaSource detection for...
+ added certification support for Hong Kong #1623
+ added button to create movie sets from within the movie editor
+ (movies/TV shows) added s...
+ enabled aspect ratio detection for disc folders (VIDEO_TS, BDMV) #1573
+ added an option to ignore specials in list missing episodes (thx @dimitri...
+ added support for season fanart #1434 #1572
+ support for getting FFmpeg thumbs from disk folders
+ added bit depth to audio media informati...
+ support for multiple trailers in the same language (forced, sdh, …) #343 #1543
+ make trailer table sortable #1492
+ added a dedicated file ...
+ added selected entries amount and file size totals to the movie/movie set/TV show list #1450
+ added file size totals tp the movie/movie set/TV sh...
tinyMediaManager v4.2.2 introduces a new feature called “post processing”. With this feature you are able to trigger external tools/commands on your media...
x (TVDB) hotfix for the broken TVDB search API
x (TVDB) various smaller fixes in the API
x selecting images in the image chooser with double click
x...
tinyMediaManager v4.2 is a big release with several noteworthy changes.
TheTVDB announced that the sunset of their (free) API v3 will be on October 1, 2021. With the sunset of TheTVDB API...
tinyMediaManager v4.2 introduces a new way to show you what kind of metadata is missing. In the past this check was kinda hard coded inside tinyMediaManag...
In addition to the absolute path based skip folders, tinyMediaManager v4.2 adds the ability to add skip folders for movies which are based on
tinyMediaManager v4.2 introduces a feature where you can enable a “do not overwrite existing data” option when scraping. This becomes handy if you have ma...
tinyMediaManager offers an (experimental) official docker image based on Debian B...
NFO files created with tinyMediaManager got a first level support in the tool DVR-Provider 3 b...
tinyMediaManager’s next release (v4.2) will introduce an interface for third party scrapers. Using this interface any developer can create a scraper and p...
+ (movies/TV shows) “add a new data source” has been added to the “update data sources” menu
+ (movies/TV shows) view NFO files and play music theme...
+ added an enhanced aspect ratio detector (thx @icebaer72 and @All-Ex)
+ heavily reworked the Kodi integration #335, #966, #971, #1151, #1303
...
tinyMediaManager included a basic implementation of the Kodi JSON-RPC API for a long time, but with rele...
tinyMediaManager’s newest release (v4.1.5) added automatic detection of the “real” aspect ratio of movies and TV shows. Many video files are encoded in 16...
+ updated libmediainfo to 21.03
+ (movies/TV shows) added “force best match” to automatic subtitle downloads (rather than only download file hash ma...
Starting with tinyMediaManager v4.1.4 it is now possible to do a movie/TV show search using the TMDB/IMDB/TVDB id directly in the search window. To make t...
+ Emby compatibility enhancements
+ new columns for HDR and aspect ratio - thx @icebaer72
+ (movies/TV shows) re-added persisting of last used filters #1153
+ (movies) option t...
+ filter for note field
x (TV show) fixes endless update data source #1230 #1228
x (TV show) do not select all episodes in TV show rename acti...
+ License changes - Now there is a FREE and PRO version of tinyMediaManager. In the FREE version there is no more limitation of loaded movies/TV shows or ...
tinyMediaManager v4.1 introduced a new JMTE renderer (replace
) to do custom replacements. Those ...
tinyMediaManager v4.1 introduces a new expert mode in the bulk editor to freely set some pre-defined text fields in the movie. This expert mode a...
Starting with tinyMediaManager v4.1 you will have the possibility to exchange a data source with another path in all your movies/TV shows. This m...
tinyMediaManager v4.1 will include the ability to display missing movies from movie sets (like the missing episode feature for TV shows). This can only be...
+ added decades filter for movies
+ added new column (audio title) in media information panels (movie / TV shows)
+ added HDR Format filter fo...
Starting from tinyMediaManager v4.1 you will be able to generate thumbs/stills from your video file using FFmpeg. You ca...
+ added support of Kodi v19 style extrafanart (fanartX.ext)
+ added support of sorting in movie set/TV show tree #540
+ provide a filter for m...
+ added support for trailer download to /trailers #787
+ re-added tinyMediaManagerCMD.exe for Windows command line execution
+ added subtitle ...
+ added setting to suppress writing of <episodeguide> tag
x (image chooser) show original image always in original size
x errors when do...
+ added a year column in the TV show tree #1026
+ added a release date column in the movie table #1029
x do not cleanup episodes if the TV sho...
Using the official IMDB datasets it is possible to mix in the IMDB ratings into every scrape where an IMDB id is available. The IMDB id is provided by the...
+ enhanced display of ratings
+ added action to re-fetch IMDB ratings #989
x set “Disable SSL certificate verification” to true per default to...
x fixed upgrade of v3 settings
After several months of development we are proud to announce tinyMediaManager v4...
The command line interface (CLI) has been rewritten for v4 using the picocli library. The new CLI has some advantages ...
tinyMediaManager is developed as Open Source since summer 2012 mainly by two developers (Manuel and Myron) in their spare time.
x fixed artwork loading from TVDB
x fixed IMDB id lookup for TV shows (to provide more artwork for TV scraping)
x fixed AniDb caching issues (...
x MediaInfo reworked their naming schema for audio codecs - please reload your media information where needed!
x TMDB-scraper: do not accept empty I...
+ added sortTitle to the movie renamer patterns (thx @xsxiaosa)
+ added XLARGE (2160p) fanart support for tmdb
+ added XLARGE (2000x3000px) po...
Evolution of the tinyMediaManager source code from 08/2012 - 01/2019 rendered via gource
+ Java 9 / 10 / 11 compatibility!
+ High Dynamic Range detection for mediafiles - you need to reload MediaInfo and then use $H in renamer
+ op...
+ improved image caching (you should clear and rebuild your image cache)
+ updated libmediainfo to 18.05
+ added another recognized trailer fi...
x display Kodi scrapers at the end of the list
x fixed imdb scraper: parsing of numbers in RU
x fixed loading of the TVDB plugin
x fixed...
x added Ł and ł in the ascii replacer
x changed tvdb API to version 2
+ feature: Kodi plugins now able to download images (movies)
x fixed registering donator version
+ removed usage of Google Analytics
+ added hebrew as media language (thx to @israelio)
x several fixes in the OSX starter script
x fixe...
+ added frame rate from mediainfo
+ updated libmediainfo to 17.12
+ show result window of the “find missing movies” feature
x fix IMDB l...
+ added DataTables export template - thx to @C. Janke
x fixed the imdb scraper (imdb changed their web pages) - thx to @Grizzler89
x fixed a p...
+ add persian language
+ added option to include external audio files in Kodi NFO streamdetails (thx @midgetspy)
+ support for mediainfo 17.10...
+ added some more (common) languages to the available scraper languages
x adapt IMDB site changes; getting plot works again
x fix fanart.tv sc...
HIGHLIGHTS:
+ EXPERIMENTAL: UPnP support - https://goo.gl/NieeJ8
+ updated libmediainfo to 0.7.94
+ changed display of...
+ added action: download missing artwork
+ added parsing of Synology VSMETA files
+ added shortcut (CTRL - F) to jump to the search field (thx...
+ added Trakt.tv scraper
+ added option in the bulk renamer to set/clear the sort title
+ updated libmediainfo to 0.7.90
+/x added escap...
SCRAPER CHANGES:
You now have the option to scrape localized language/country names instead of ISO codes
!Check your scraper config (IMDB/TMDB/Movie...
+ movies: created an own column for available meta data (reverted logic for NFO column)
+ Take year differences more into account, when comparing sc...
+ MediaInfo for ISO files - yay!
+ reworked command line scraping, please check syntax (add scrapeAll, reworked logic for TvShows)
+ added sel...
x do not reset certification style to SHORT
x remove movies without VIDEO files after update data sources
x follow symlinks with our new “upda...
IMPORTANT: changed certification output (in NFO files) from a fixed string to a set of templates.
! Please check your movie settings afte...
+ added vote count for Tv shows and episodes
x fixed TvShow renamer when having duplicate tokens or multi episodes
x fixed MovieRenamerPreview...
+ bug reports are now solved via GitHub issues
+ added image exporting in the export templates (see http://goo.gl/kuS...
LINUX: We’ve removed the shipped mediainfo library due to massive problems between different distributions. Please install the libmediainfo directl...
+ added episode tags to the TV show bulk editor x fix startup problems x fix poster & fanart sizes x fix parsing of the year in the movie editor x fix...
Within the last months tinyMediaManager has constantly grown and thus we decided to do some general cleanup of the whole source to prepare it for the next...
IMPORTANT: with tinyMediaManager version 2.7 we do not support Java6 anymore.
If you are still using Java6, please update or you will stay at versio...
IMPORTANT: with tinyMediaManager version 2.7 we do not support Java6 anymore.
If you are still using Java6, please update or you will stay at versio...
IMPORTANT: with tinyMediaManager version 2.7 we do not support Java6 anymore.
If you are still using Java6, please update.
+ updated trakt.tv library to the new API
IMPORTANT: please re-enter your login data for trakt.tv
+ enhanced TV show and movie renamer (http://goo.gl/8pbkFj)
IMPORTANT: REVIEW YOUR TV SHOW RENAM...
+ changed Fanart.tv to v3 API (with clientKey)
+ added more artwork scraping dialogs
+ new Excel export template (xml)
+ added $L langua...
+ added edit button for tv show season
x fix physically deletion of movies in multiMovieDir
x updated Trakt.tv libs
x fix release build ...
+ added column for watched state to the movie table
+ added action to scrape episode metadata without thumbs
+ added quick creation of movie s...
x fixed scraping of episode metadata
x fixed TV show renamer
x fixed year setting for TV show renamer
x fixed image chooser for thumbs (...
After a few months of heavy code cleanups, implementing new features and an UI rework (approx. 180 commits) we are proud to announce
+ enhanced writing of certification to the XBMC NFO
x fixed media info loading problems for some users (JNA update to 4.1)
x fixed a bug where...
There was a nasty bug in an external library with version 2.5.3 which caused our internal database to become corrupted. We’ve added some recovery function...
+ activated SWT loading for all platforms (see this post...
+ added a lightbox effect, when clicking on an artwork in the movie/movie set/tv show panel (see
x fixed a problem where mediainfo could not be loaded
Version 2.5.1
x fixed a database loading problem
after 1.5 months and about 200 commits we are proud to announce
feature: added configurable scraper threshold (thx to georg)
fix: some performance enhancements to the movie importer
fix: remove set tag from...
feature: new TV show renamer option: 01x01 format
feature: added a tag for optional tokens {}
fix: added -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to so...
feature: when getting only 1 search result at automatic scrape, we assume it is the right one (and take it - ignoring the score)
feature: added upda...
feature: added icons to the menu items
feature: changed our notification system
feature: improved caching of extrathumbs/extrafanart
fea...
feature: added video codec / audio codec filter for movies
fix: some enhancements to the search algorithm
fix: some performance improvements f...
feature: detect imdb id from file/folder name at import
feature: switched scaling algorithm to imgscalr - is should now use less memory, be faster a...
feature: detect movies in multi movie dirs (this file structure is not recommended)
feature: added wake on LAN support
feature: add up to 5 fa...
feature: command line arguments! see Command line arguments for more details
feature: localized Genres<...
With r965 it is possible to do some common tasks via the command line. To start tinyMediaManager via the command line, there is a new executeable/shellscr...
feature: added search field in the TV show section
feature: added $N token for movie renamer (movieset title)
feature: cleanup of empty folder...
feature: TV show renamer
feature: 2 cool movie export templates from Matthew (jQueryliscious & SimpleConfluence)
feature: added country to...
feature: option to update a single datasource(see post)
feature: movie set token available for movie renamer
feature: added movie selection for the renamer preview (in settings)
feature: added more ...
feature: added play button to launch the video file with your systems default player (
feature: changing episode thumbs now possible (local files)
fix: error in movie exporting
fix: crash when using empty tags
fix: crash wh...
big news
After more than 2 years of backporting fixes to v3, this will be the last update for v3
+ updated libmediainfo to 22.06
x (TV shows) detect 4 digit episode numbers
x (TV shows) allow episode numbers up to 6 digits long
x fixed loading of the translations for Traditional Chinese (zh_Hant) #1406
+ updated libmediainfo to 21.03 #1309
x enhanced cleaning of filenames on import #950
x some fixes for detecting/handling pt-BR subtitles
x (macOS) fixed JVM discovery on Big Sur
x (TV shows) better cancel handling of update data sources #1255
x fix loading of various aspect ratio icons #1160
x fixes Trakt.tv integration
x fixed parsing of TMDB id for TV shows
+ added “_” as a colon separator in the renamer settings #974
x backport MediaInfo changes from v4 (aspect ratio and others)
x backport fixes ...
x reading of hybrid DVD ISO files
x updated libmediainfo to 20.09
+ added a file size renderer to the export templates
x added some changes to improve youtube trailer downloading
x included a search rate thro...
x removed kyradb.com artwork provider
x take the correct artwork extension when using local files in the image chooser
x several enhancements ...
+ updated libmediainfo to 20.08
+ updated Movie Picker template (thx @bastienpruvost)
x removed a memory leak in IMDB scraper
x do not w...
+ (movie) only show used genres in the genre filter
+ added fr_CA to scraper languages
x fixed detection of multipart files
x fixed disp...
+ Further improve episode detection #824
+ added (internal) subtitle language information to the renamer tokens #855
+ added support for doubl...
+ splitted space substitution in the TV show renamer into setting for TV show/season folder and episode filename (thx @dimitricappelle)
NOTE: you ...
+ added some more scraper languages #800
+ added a filter for common audio channel setups
+ (movie/TV show) option to extract artwork from VSM...
+ clean empty subfolders after renaming movies/TV shows
+ added “remove artwork” for TV show seasons too
+ (Movie) added a new export template...
x reverted usage of NativeFileDialogs for macOS users #762 #764 x fixed some issues in the file-/folder dialogs x fixed migration of movies from 3.0.x to ...
+ re-added AniDB scraper to the ui #759
+ use another algorithm for title case rendering
x fixed movie set name cleanup for file-/folder names...
+ added trailer support for TV shows
+ added experimental support for BluRay ISO reading
+ completely reworked scraper configuration: you now ...
+ added a scraper for MPDb.tv (thx @wjanes)
+ added an action to force deletion of all HTTP caches (on disk and in memory) #656
+ added changi...
+ changed “finding unwanted files” logic to use regular expressions
+ show a warning what rename&cleanup does
+ added a new export templat...
+ reworked the YouTube download engine. Should now work for almost all trailers! (thx @wjanes)
+ separated space substitution for filenames and fold...
+ added undo/redo for all text fields
+ added renamer token for the current parent folder (to enable renaming of folders without moving them in the ...
x fixed Fanart.tv reading personal clientKey
x fixed Fanart.tv using TMDB id fallback
x fixed TvShow exporter naming pattern #525
x fixe...
After several years of development we are proud to announce tinyMediaManager v3...
tinyMediaManager v3 - RC4 is out containing many fixes/improvements over RC3:
tinyMediaManager v3 - RC3 is out containing many fixes/improvements over RC2:
RC2 of tinyMediaManager v3 is out, containing the following changes:
The movie & TV show renamer in version 3 uses the Java Minimal Template Engine (JMTE). This engine al...
After several years of development we are proud to announce tinyMediaManager v3 - RC1...
Evolution of the tinyMediaManager source code from 08/2012 - 01/2019 rendered via gource
+ [TVmaze] make it usable from within the universal scraper #2723
x [TvShows] fix renaming multi-episodes #2730
x [UI] propagate more failed r...
+ [TV shows] added editions for episodes #2674
+ [TV shows] added a new CSV export template for TV shows
+ [Renamer] added the token ${origina...
+ [UI] able to sort TvShows by “dateAdded of episodes” #2677
+ [UI] added the hotkey CTRL+ENTER for direct saving/closing in the editors #2693
...
+ [TV shows] Treat episodes w/o season as “Season 1” upon importing!
+ [Renderer] split(1,3) renderer can now contain a range…
+ [HTTP API] ad...
+ (TV shows) added a column for missing episode count #2642
only available if you enabled displaying of missing episodes!
+ (TV shows/movie ...
+ (Anime) greatly improve episode detection from file names
+ added the hotkey CTRL+S for direct saving/closing in the editors
+ (JMTE) Added ...
x major performance enhancement of upgrade tasks
x (HTTP API) fix updating of TV shows
x do not crash on startup with faulty PATH entries #259...
+ (TV show) added poster file naming for Zidoo #2510
+ added an option to round the framerate (use ${framerate(round)}) #2568
+ (movie/TV show...
+ yt-dlp can be used as external program for downloading trailers
+ added frame rate to the renamer tokens #2557
+ added an alternate style fo...
Downloading of trailers from YT is kinda a hit and miss recently, so we decided to create an integration of yt-...
+ (movie/TV show) group the artwork type in the artwork panel for better visibility
x fixed trailer downloading for newer trailers #2532
x (st...
x upgraded libmediainfo to 24.01
x respect setting for trash folder when deleting movies/TV shows #2477
x (TVDB) scrape missing country for sh...
+ (TV shows) added an option to choose the rating source priority #2405
+ (KodiRPC) support for multiple combined Kodi datasources #2465
x imp...
+ add French TP certificate #2424
+ detect some more known audio codecs
x fixed missing window decorations on Wayland
x (NFO) prefer to ...
We are proud to announce
One of our biggest problem over the past years was the handling of different orderings of the TV show episodes (episode groups).
tinyMediaManager v5 will be able to write your data into the systems default locations if you don’t use the portable version:
On our Reddit forums a user wrote a guide how to remux your video files to include missing audio ...
The site mariushosting.com has made a tutorial how to install tinyMediaManager via docker on a Synology NAS:
The site Softpedia.com has made a review about tinyMediaManager:
The site freeappsforme.com has made a review about tinyMediaManager:
Haenlein Software has made a video on YouTube which shows how to integrate the results of tinyMediaManager in DVR-Provid...
Tys Tech Tips has made a video on YouTube which presents how to install and set up tinyMediaManager:
Tys Tech Tips has made a video on YouTube which presents how to automate scanning/scraping/renaming in tinyMediaManager ...
Tys Tech Tips has made a video on YouTube which presents how to organize your Plex and Kodi library with tinyMediaManage...
The site addictivetips.com has made a tutorial about tinyMediaManager:
The Grok Shop has made a video on YouTube which presents how to use tinyMediaManager along with Kodi:
The German magazine c’t has written an article about tinyMediaManager:
The site ghacks.net has made a review about tinyMediaManager:
tinyMediaManager included a basic implementation of the Kodi JSON-RPC API for a long time, but with rele...
tinyMediaManager’s newest release (v4.1.5) added automatic detection of the “real” aspect ratio of movies and TV shows. Many video files are encoded in 16...
Starting with tinyMediaManager v4.1.4 it is now possible to do a movie/TV show search using the TMDB/IMDB/TVDB id directly in the search window. To make t...
tinyMediaManager v4.1 introduced a new JMTE renderer (replace
) to do custom replacements. Those ...
tinyMediaManager v4.1 introduces a new expert mode in the bulk editor to freely set some pre-defined text fields in the movie. This expert mode a...
Starting with tinyMediaManager v4.1 you will have the possibility to exchange a data source with another path in all your movies/TV shows. This m...
tinyMediaManager v4.1 will include the ability to display missing movies from movie sets (like the missing episode feature for TV shows). This can only be...
Starting from tinyMediaManager v4.1 you will be able to generate thumbs/stills from your video file using FFmpeg. You ca...
tinyMediaManager v4.2.2 introduces a new feature called “post processing”. With this feature you are able to trigger external tools/commands on your media...
TheTVDB announced that the sunset of their (free) API v3 will be on October 1, 2021. With the sunset of TheTVDB API...
tinyMediaManager v4.2 introduces a new way to show you what kind of metadata is missing. In the past this check was kinda hard coded inside tinyMediaManag...
In addition to the absolute path based skip folders, tinyMediaManager v4.2 adds the ability to add skip folders for movies which are based on
tinyMediaManager v4.2 introduces a feature where you can enable a “do not overwrite existing data” option when scraping. This becomes handy if you have ma...
tinyMediaManager offers an (experimental) official docker image based on Debian B...
NFO files created with tinyMediaManager got a first level support in the tool DVR-Provider 3 b...
tinyMediaManager’s next release (v4.2) will introduce an interface for third party scrapers. Using this interface any developer can create a scraper and p...
Starting with v4.3.8 tinyMediaManager offers a new JMTE renderer which allows the usage multiple JMTE renderers for one token. The syntax for the new rend...
Kodi (and its scrapers) has some drawbacks for the <episodeguide> information which will be written in the NFO files. The information in the <epi...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 offers a new enhancement for the search field in the movie module: similar to JMTE you can access to several different properties of...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 introduces a new way to get multiple ratings at once. Up to now we could only offer the rating from the scraper itself along with IM...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 introduces a new (experimental) HTTP API to remote control a running instance. The HTTP API can be used to remotely (or periodically...
tinyMediaManager v4.3 added a way to enhance the JMTE syntax with regular expressions. You can use this regular expression annot...