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So we will soon have Gattaca? https://www.themoviedb.org/mov...

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So we will soon have Gattaca? https://www.themoviedb.org/mov...

We're already heading towards 1984, now it seems like we're heading towards Gattaca , great!

I have/had a similar problem with my media collection. My solution, at the end of the day, was to build something myself.

As one might guess from my handle, I used PERL, and made a few web applications that serve my purpose fairly well. I have a component that scans my media directories over night and add the data to a mysql database. Another component then uses to filename to check against http://www.themoviedb.org/ and http://www.imdb.com/. If a good match is found, a poster is downloaded, and the database is populated with the title, year, dirtector, plot summary, and a list of relevant genres. The main part of the application is a web based interface that lets me search by title or keyword, or browse by genre.

If the scrapping script find no matches, or multiple matches between which my script cannot decide, it is flagged for attention. There is a CGI script that shows me these items, gives me the possible matches, and allows me to modify the search by and a bit to get to the correct listing.

I'm betting there are some packages out there that would do this all for me, but I enjoyed the experience of building it myself. I suppose if there are not other such programs, maybe with more work, and some help I could make my home grown tool available under the GPL.

You should check out http://www.themoviedb.org/

Let's say they show "Arsenic and Old Lace" on cable and I want to decide whether to record/watch it or not.
IMDB gives it an aggregate score of 8.1/10 based on 30,053 votes, with 193 user reviews and 42 "critics" reviews.
themoviedb gives it an aggregate of 8.6/10 based on 4 votes and no reviews.

Which site should I use?

That all changed quickly right after Amazon took over. I quit volunteering my time to improve the site, as did many other casual readers who simply wanted a better system for their own reference and entertainment. I still use IMDB to discover older movies and television series which might interest me, but I have no desire to try to submit corrections.

You may want to consider TheMovieDb.org and TheTVDB.com. They started up in response to IMDb restricting their content and images, and exist to provide community-sourced metadata and artwork for use in HTPCs.

You should check out http://www.themoviedb.org/

XBMC can download information directly from their database, which is how I was introduced to it. I believe this is what you are looking for.