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Now highlight library and press and hold Menu button.

Click button Left and highlight Library Mode

To get the xbmc to create the library properly always put the movie in the directory with the name and the year of the movie.
Let’s say you have file Armyofdarkness.avi. Stick it to the folder called Army of Darkness (1992)
as it appears in imdb.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/

Let’s say xbmc didn’t get the movie right. No problem. Look at this case. The movie here is a The Dark City 1998 but the XBMC detected it as The Director’s Cut as the folder is called The Dark City – The Director’s Cut (1998)

We can fix it quickly:

In the next post I will show how to configure TV Shows and Music library

So you got yourself XBMC installed and you would like to get the XBMC to automatically download movie and tv shows covers, casts, synopis and rating. Like on the image below:

Well, XBMC has something that is called Library Mode which I will show how to configure.

What we need to do is:

1. Add shared directory with movies (local or remote). If you haven’t done it yet check this tutorial:
http://arturito.net/2011/10/20/how-to-add-network-drive-nas-storage-or-windows-share-in-xbmc/

2. Install IMDB scrapper.
*IMDB scrapper is a plugin that will download movie information and cover from imdb.com

3. Set content

Let’s install the scrapper:

Now with the scrapper installed we can start setting up content.

Continue to part 2

http://arturito.net/2011/12/03/how-to-configure-library-mode-in-xbmc-apple-tv-2g-movie-covers-title-genre-part-2/

 
Please specify drive hostname or ip address of the device and the name of the hared folder.
Depending on your security settings you might also provide username and password.

(My network storage is Synology DS110j
http://www.synology.com/us/products/DS110j/index.php)