Sunday, December 14, 2008

Batch Metadata Tools gets Custom Content Proivder

As of version 1.12, the Batch Metadata Tools now has a "build your own content provider". This new feature, called a CompositeMetadataProvider, is basically a way to compose or build a new content provider from 2 other content providers, using only configuration.

For example, you can create a new content provider that uses the IMDB provider to search, but then uses themovidedb.com provider to fetch the details and thumbnail information. You can also configure which fields from the search provider that you want to use instead of those in the detail provider.

This new composite provider model may be a little tricky to understand at first, but it opens up some great potential to pull content from multiple sources when fetching metadata information.

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