Hi,
Firstly I must compliment the level of peoples knowledge within the forum. Credit to you all.
I have just built my first Media Centre PC. Plan to have it connected to my amp, and HDTV (once I purchase it).
So far I have it up and running, have ripped my CD collection onto it and now I am looking for more.
I want to watch Movies via the centre but unsure how I go about this, other than sticking in a DVD. basic advise would be appreciated.
NEXT.....
I have LOADS of Albums on MP3 format. Is there a particular way of naming the folders, renaming the tracks etc, recommend any software that can help with this?
Also, the images that come up in Media Centre are low resolution, can I better this?

With what I have read here, there seems to be a lot of add ons that you can download, Any recommendations of what the system can do?

Thanks for any advise/support you can give.

TEK

For your music, make sure it is all tagged including the album artist tag, media centre depends on tags to organise the music. I use an application called mp3 tag tools to tag and rename files as well as album art fixer to tag and download album art.

Install My Movies, this will help you to organise your DVD's and VOB's.

If your mp3's are tagged ok it does not matter what folder structure you have, but for ease of finding music (when copying and ripping in explorer or other apps) why not create a folder called artist name with a sub folder of album title?

 

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Steve

Thanks for the info and tips. Its all a bit daunting when working on it for the first time.
With Regards to installing My Movies, where is my best place to get add ons such as that?

Just here - http://www.mymovies.dk/home.aspx

Album Art Fixer - http://www.avsoft.nl/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=4

MP3 Tag Tools - http://sourceforge.net/projects/massid3lib

 

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Steve

Thanks for the links Steve.
Will let you know how I get on.

Craig

have a look at http://www.nakedcleaner.com/2008/06/30/media-center-stuff/ I put it together to help a friend out, you might find some of it useful.     

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Ashleigh

My Blog and my My F1 Blog and Blogcritics

Thanks for the link. VERY useful. Just bookmarked it so I can use it for reference also.

TEK

Hey no problems, we all have to start somewhere ;)   

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Ashleigh

My Blog and my My F1 Blog and Blogcritics