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junk_struc:

Hi,

I am just new to J River and have imported most of my media into mymovies.  it was quite a bit of effort to get everything pretty much correct (very poor naming of directories/files) and don't want to redo it.  Can pvd use the mymovies.xml files as a starting point?

Thanks
Craig

PS Without meaning to be rude on the Pvd forum, has anyone used both mymovies and Jriver and subsequently moved to pvd and j river with no regrets?
 

rick.ca:
Welcome, junk.

If you've got the data in mymovies, then I assume you've got in MC as well. If so, you can copy the data directly from MC to a spreadsheet (Excel or equivalent) and import that. Just create a details view in MC with all the fields you want to include. You can then copy & paste directly from the view to the spreadsheet. If you haven't done so already, use MC's file rename utility to clean up your filenames, and include the filename in the import. That way, you get all the data and a perfect match to the physical media files.

I don't know of anyone who has moved from mymovies to PVD. But I would be shocked and dismayed to hear of anyone moving the other direction. ;)

junk_struc:
i did a quick export from mc with the names (and year).  some of the names were still ambiguous for pvd and thus manual intervention required.  are there some more foolproof fields from mymovies that i can guarrantee the same result in pvd.

installed pvd and it does look a lot better than mymovies as i am not using the wmc aspect.  though i didn't get the pvdimport plugin to do much.  what is the defining attribute that links the pvd database and the MC database, is it the file name, file name and location, or????

will keep playing, your program looks great.

thanks

craig

rick.ca:
IMDb lookups usually work fairly well with a correct (original or aka) title and year. The only thing that can resolve any ambiguity after that is you or the URL (which I assume you don't have).

PVD and MC records are linked by the full pathname. This is why I suggested you include it in the export/import. As long as they're identical, PvdImport will find the record in the database.

junk_struc:

does this linking by filename imply that if i move my movies around the link gets broken?

thanks
craig

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