Hello guys, I come today seeking for help stepping up my XBMC setup. So far I have used XBMC in one HTPC in my living room, with the media files spread between 3 internal drives and 1 external drive, using a local library and running XBMC 11 Eden on Windows 7 Ultimate. The structure I have used up until now is as follows:
D:\Movies (each movie in its folder)
D:\TV SHOWS (each show in its folder with Season subfolders containing the episodes)
same thing on drives E,F,G
The thumbnails reside on the userdata folder, not on the folders of the movies, and some movie folders have an .nfo file I have created to force them to belong to a certain movie set.
The idea of this project is to move all the media from these drives to a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra Plus 4. I have been reading a bit on what to do to move the media to the NAS and recreate the library, but it seems there is some outdated info regarding this (Lifehacker guide to centralize the library, for example), so I preferred to create this thread to ask for help. I also want to make the library shared (from what I read I need to use MySQL).
My first step will be to backup my userdata folder including the library just in case, and then proceed to copy the files to folders in the NAS named MOVIES and TV SHOWS, trying to keep the existing structure.
The first question is Should I set the share as NFS or SMB? I read the best way is NFS as it is more optimized.
Second, How do I proceed to move/modify the library and make it a shared library on the NAS and re-add the files? From what I've read the first step is to export the library as separate files, is this correct?
Third, How to setup the shared library through MySQL? No clue on this although I will read the Lifehacker guide to at least have some idea. Since I have 3 other computers the idea is to install XBMC in them to access the shared library too, as well as mobile devices.
Fourth, I need to keep the thumbnails and fanart I currently have, not re-scrape from the internet. This is crucial as I have painstakingly picked different covers, tvtunes and fanart for each movie than what is selected automatically when you add/update the library. Although keeping the watched status would be great, the priority for me is the thumbs and fanart.
Lastly, what should I do with/clean from the userdata folder that currently is the main one I used in the living room HTPC? This will be after all my main HTPC for XBMC.
Apologies beforehand for the long post, but wanted to be as clear as possible, and thank you in advance...
MADSAT
D:\Movies (each movie in its folder)
D:\TV SHOWS (each show in its folder with Season subfolders containing the episodes)
same thing on drives E,F,G
The thumbnails reside on the userdata folder, not on the folders of the movies, and some movie folders have an .nfo file I have created to force them to belong to a certain movie set.
The idea of this project is to move all the media from these drives to a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra Plus 4. I have been reading a bit on what to do to move the media to the NAS and recreate the library, but it seems there is some outdated info regarding this (Lifehacker guide to centralize the library, for example), so I preferred to create this thread to ask for help. I also want to make the library shared (from what I read I need to use MySQL).
My first step will be to backup my userdata folder including the library just in case, and then proceed to copy the files to folders in the NAS named MOVIES and TV SHOWS, trying to keep the existing structure.
The first question is Should I set the share as NFS or SMB? I read the best way is NFS as it is more optimized.
Second, How do I proceed to move/modify the library and make it a shared library on the NAS and re-add the files? From what I've read the first step is to export the library as separate files, is this correct?
Third, How to setup the shared library through MySQL? No clue on this although I will read the Lifehacker guide to at least have some idea. Since I have 3 other computers the idea is to install XBMC in them to access the shared library too, as well as mobile devices.
Fourth, I need to keep the thumbnails and fanart I currently have, not re-scrape from the internet. This is crucial as I have painstakingly picked different covers, tvtunes and fanart for each movie than what is selected automatically when you add/update the library. Although keeping the watched status would be great, the priority for me is the thumbs and fanart.
Lastly, what should I do with/clean from the userdata folder that currently is the main one I used in the living room HTPC? This will be after all my main HTPC for XBMC.
Apologies beforehand for the long post, but wanted to be as clear as possible, and thank you in advance...
MADSAT