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English => Support => Topic started by: mik on April 10, 2010, 02:44:36 am

Title: CSV Import/Export with Picture Location
Post by: mik on April 10, 2010, 02:44:36 am

How is it to be done, when I need to import something like this:

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Title;Year;Picture;
"Shrek";"2001";"D:\Posters\137FD381.jpg";
It's the only thing stopping me from fully using it

Title: Re: CSV Import/Export with Picture Location
Post by: nostra on April 10, 2010, 03:19:30 am

You can't import images using CSV import plugin, but you can import them separately using the IMGByID (http://www.videodb.info/bin/imgid.7z) utility.

For the utility to work first import your movies without images, then set IDs for all the movies (Tools -> Reindex movies) in the database, then name your image file, so that the filename is id.extension or somename_id.extension, then run the utility.

Another approach would be: importing your titles with year and then getting posters using amazon plugin (or another poster import plugin) with Silent mode checked in tools -> preferences -> plugins. Note laos that you can configure the IMDB plugin to get images as well, as you will probably need to run it for all the movies to get all the fields filled.

Title: Re: CSV Import/Export with Picture Location
Post by: rick.ca on April 10, 2010, 04:54:54 am

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...you can import the separately using the IMGByID utility.

This topic (http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1734.0) may help with that.