Tag films and TV shows
1 GET PREREQUISITES
Start by verifying that Java is installed:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ java -version
Assuming it’s not installed, type the following to install it together with libmediainfo:
$ sudo apt-get install default-jre libmediainfo0v5
2 INSTALL AND RUN TINYMEDIAMANAGER
Open your browser and head to www.tinymediamanager. org to download the Linux version. Extract its contents to a suitable folder. Once done, return to the terminal and use the following commands (they’re case-sensitive):
$ cd tinyMediaManager
$ sudo ./tinyMediaManager.sh
3 CONFIGURE BASIC SETTINGS
Follow the wizard’s steps. When prompted to specify film datasources, click + to select the parent folder containing all your films (we recommend separating TV shows and films into two separate folders). Click Next, then choose your preferred metadata agent and fine-tune its settings, say for English. Click Next to repeat the process for your TV shows.
4 MATCH FILM TITLES
After clicking Finish, select your films from the list in the lefthand pane and click ‘Search & scrape’. A window opens with a list of potential matches. If your film is present, select it, choose which items to scrape and click OK to move on to the next. If it’s not, you can amend the search terms and choose a different online database to pull data from.
5 REVIEW AND EDIT
Once the search completes, you’ll see that loads of information has been added, including posters and fan art. Everything is fully editable – select the film in question and click the Edit button to make any changes you need to – but sadly the metadata isn’t saved to your MP4 files. Rather, it’s stored in separate files for tags (in NFO format) and as artwork.
6 REPEAT FOR TV
It’s a similar process for TV shows: switch to the ‘TV shows’ tab in the left-hand pane to view and select them. After scraping, click the > next to a TV show to review the metadata at a series and episode level. Again, all the details are editable, and you can use the tickboxes next to each show or episode’s name to quickly adjust missing metadata or artwork.