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    LaunchBox Media Manager

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Development and Beta Testing)

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    On 2/24/2019 at 6:37 AM, Retrofrogg said:

    Just had another look at the latest version. Does the gallery view just show " the Box-Front, Marquee, Fanart, and Clear Logo" ? This seems very odd - in my mind the most useful way to use the gallery feature would be to show all associated artwork, not a random selection of 4 items. Is this possible?

    Also, the "manual" section doesn't seem to populate - I have manuals for some games and they aren't showing here.

    This was a personal choice as these are the images most crucial to my setup. I'll look at expanding the gallery to all.

    Do you have an example of a manual that exists but isnt loading?

    LaunchBox Media Manager

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    57 minutes ago, Styphelus said:

    Ok, I was in "Gallery" mode. In Gallery mode I just get black squares. It displays the images if you select "Single". The "Missing" feature also doesn't work. Nothing happens on my end. Also, any games with a "-" in the rom name. Launchbox renames them to a ":" so those don't display. For example the rom is called "Army Men - Air Combat (USA)" but launchbox calls it "Army Men: Air Combat". Games like that don't display any media despite the all media files matching the rom name.

    Got it...will address. When my library is complete, it makes troubleshooting difficult. Lol

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    LaunchBox Media Manager

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    1 hour ago, Styphelus said:

    Humm...still no fix for those of us with thousands of media files carried over from our Hyperspin days or media downloaded from Emumovies. All my files end with (USA), (Europe), (Japan) and so on. Roms are named the same way.

    Is it possible to have it find the media if it matches the exact rom name? Shouldn't be hard to do. Launchbox already does this.

    I did. Do you have an example where it isn’t working? I built in wildcards for filenames as such (*).*

    LaunchBox Media Manager

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted · Edited by igotdvds

    I present LaunchBox media Manager. I preface that I built this for me thus the functionality may not suit everyone's needs but I'm open to feedback.

    Download here: LINK

    What it does:

    • Select your root LaunchBox Directory.
    • Platforms, Image types, and Game lists will populate.
    • Select a platform and image type.
    • Select a game and see the current image for that title and type. Choosing "Gallery" will show the Box-Front, Marquee, Fanart, and Clear Logo.
    • Drag an image on top of another to replace it or add it to the appropriate folder and the with appropriate name for LaunchBox recognition.
    • Click the "Missing items" filter to only show games that are missing that particular image type and quickly update them by dragging and dropping.
    • Search the web for images for a game title.
    • Open the images directory from the app.

    1.4 Updates

    • Added delete button for images and videos
    • Added multi-image viewing
    • Reworked code to account for images with -01,-02,-03 more effectively and reduce inaccurate results.

    1.3 Updates

    • Cleaned up interface
    • Changed color scheme to gray
    • Added support for manuals (adding, viewing)
    • Added support for PinballX media management (this is disabled and will only be enabled by request as I'm not sure anyone else but me wants it and I want this to be Launchbox focused)

    1.2 Updates

    • I forget, lol

    1.1 Updates:

    • Added platform name to web search and remove "images" as well as open images tab in google
    • Added functionality for videos (snaps and themes)
    • Added ability to copy and paste images from the web (direct image and url)

     

    Screenshots:

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    To be done (based on feedback):

    • Add functionality for music

    Beta thread here: 

     

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    LaunchBox Media Manager

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Development and Beta Testing)

    Posted · Edited by igotdvds

    12 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:

    Rather than looking in the folders, wouldn’t it be better for this app to link in with Launchbox to see which covers are correctly associated with it? That way there wouldn’t be such errors. Or if that’s not possible, maybe allow for any -01 -02 or other file name variations. 

    Ideally, yes. Do you know how to accomplish this? I would love to approach it this way but filenames, locations, and XML appeared to be the only option from outside the application.

     

    34 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

    I just checked mine, and got the same 'missing box front' for my Wii collection as well.  Remembering from an earlier post... looked at the LB folder and sure enough mine are all "-02".  Renamed them to -01 and now shows accordingly.

    Yes, I don't handle for 02,03,etc. This seems easy enough as long as I cap it at some number, perhaps 3. I also handle for the straight filename as well without the -01.

    LaunchBox Media Manager

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    2 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:

    Thought I would re-visit this since it seems to be undergoing active development again. Within the first minute of use I have come across a bug/problem. I loaded up the Wii list, selected the "missing" box, and it shows a bunch of games having a missing front box - but when I go into Launchbox, the front boxes are there.

    This is entirely possible. Its very difficult to account for every possible file name including special characters that could exist. The majority of them are addressed and the filename is expected to end in "-01". If you would like to be helpful, you could outline some filenames that are present in LB and not in LMM, this way, we can account for the other characters or filenames and solve the issue.

    LaunchBox Media Manager

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Development and Beta Testing)

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    On 10/26/2017 at 5:36 PM, utopicide said:

    neil9000 and dos76: I was talking about source to the plugin and not LaunchBox itself, though my original post could have been clearer.

    igotdvds: Thank you for the offer to help, it is much appreciated. My first question is: How do you reference the LaunchBox DLLs from within a standalone app? I can only get the LaunchBox API to function if I call if from within a plugin called from a running instance of LaunchBox, and I'm hoping if I can get a direct reference in a standalone app, it may make debugging a lot easier.

    I dont reference any DLLs. I am essentially scraping the XML files and extracting the meaningful data elements to create the lists.

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