Experience Level: Standard

My Movies for Windows Home Server provides automated disc copying of Audio CD’s and movies from internal or USB attached optical drives, adding meta-data to copied discs, or movies already stored on the server by monitoring your movie folders.

Audio CD’s can be copied to various formats such as Flac, MP3, MP3hd and WMA, or a combination of two formats if you prefer a high quality lossless file as well as a small lossy file for mobile usage. Meta-data is downloaded from multiple internet data providers, and embedded into the files with both data and cover art, allowing you to browse and play the files from units such as Squeezeboxes, Media Centers, mobile devices and similar.

Movies, (DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD’s) are copied* to ISO or file format, or DVD’s to MPEG-2 format for Media Center extenders. Meta-data is downloaded and added from My Movies own Web service, and stored in the folders, making the data available for Media Center’s DVD/Movie library, XBMC, TViX, Netgear EVA, Dune, Popcorn Hour and other units or movie front-ends.

Movies already stored on your Windows Home Server are identified by the monitoring feature, and meta-data is added automatically. Downloaded meta-data is in the same way as when copying a disc made available to many different playback units and movie front-ends.

Should you need to edit the meta-data, the data for Audio CD’s can be edited directly from the server console, while movie data can be edited by connecting a My Movies Client, or changed to other titles if needed.

* Due to legality in several countries, My Movies does not backup copy protected discs. Users in countries that allow circumventing copy protections when backing up their movies can install SlySoft AnyDVD or AnyDVD HD directly from the console, to remove these copy protections.

Developer: Brian Binnerup

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Release History

1.50 Build 9 (9th November 2009)

• Update: Minor changes to shared files between My Movies for WHS and My Movies for WMC

• Fix: Issue with Blu-ray copying where UDF driver broke

1.50 Build 4 (20th May 2009)

• Added: Configuration and Storage of backdrops, by moving meta-data storage to own settings tab
• Change: DVD library Connector renamed to Media Center MetaData Connector to better indicate that it works for both MCE 2005, Vista and Windows 7 which have different names of the libraries
• Fix: Issue with database going into single user mode
• Fix: Issue that could cause problems if auto backup started when disc copying from media changer was in progress
• Fix: Changed time to allow disc identification from 60 to 180 seconds, and the value can now be set with “IdentifyTime” value in “Media Changer” in registry. This is to awoid media changer to move forward to next disc before a disc have been identified.
• Fix: Issue that could give a dialog if you had mp3HD setting and mobile format set, even when not changing it
• Fix: Issue preventing HDI Dune integration to get meta data in correct language
• Fix: Issue that could prevent earlier installer versions to fail to license after upgrade
• Fix: Issue preventing second disc of multi disc title to copy if system is set to reject disc if no data is found.
• Fix: Issue causing path’s to be stored as local paths (X:\) instead of UNC paths (\\server\share) when using non-storage pool shares.

1.50 Build 3

• Added: Checkbox letting user choose weather or not to store Media Center meta-data
• Added: FileSystem access to new Power Pack 2 Windows Media Center group
• Fix: Issue that prevented Netgear TAG files to be created correctly.
• Fix: Issue that would cause the removal button for extentions to not work.

v1.50 Build 2

• Added: Storage of meta-data for TViX media players
• Added: Storage of meta-data for HDI Dune media players
• Added: Storage of meta-data for Popcorn Hour players YAMJ plug-in
• Added: Storage of meta-data for Netgear EVA8000 players
• Added: Support for Dacal PowerDrive DC016 Media Changer for automatic CD and/or DVD copying
• Added: Support for copying audio CD’s to the new mp3HD format. Encoders must manually be copied to the storage area.
• Added: Unique disc identification (DiscId and OnlineId) in movie monitoring for DVD ISO and Blu-ray ISO files.
• Added: Option to search in the list views to easier locate an entry.
• Fix: Issue that caused Edit Data function to not work on unidentified discs
• Fix: Issue that could cause problems with some titles including unicode characters
• Fix: Issue preventing some CD’s from starting the copy process.
• Fix: Issue causing CD’s with data tracks to fail on last track.
• Fix: Issue that caused movie covers not to show in monitoring properties dialog
• Fix: Disabled autorun for CD-ROM drives, to ensure that rootkits, ect. from CD’s aren’t automatically installed

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