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Media Center Master reference guide
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Preliminary Installation Notes
MCM is a front-end interface that automates the organizing of a media collection with the use of a BitTorrent Client, “uTorrent” for downloading TV Series Episodes and/or Movies in the background. For MCM and uTorrent to work properly together there are a few important issues to prepare for and understand before installing MCM.
The guides have been written with the intent that the user has an interest in creating a media collection from scratch (has no TV Series/Movies) and has some knowledge and experience with BitTorrents. The Main focus of these guides will be to prepare for a fresh, new, installation of, both, MCM, and uTorrent, for a new media collection to be used for keeping TV Series up to date with current episodes.
Please Note
For users who already have an instance of uTorrent installed with customized settings, there will be no guidance given for trouble shooting problems if these guides are used with an existing install. It is therefore suggested that the user uninstall uTorrent remembering to check the tick box to also remove the user settings during the uninstall process, and then reinstall. Any changes to the settings a user wishes to do should be done after the user has MCM up and running with the use of these guides.
The first issue of concern is both MCM and uTorrent. Both of them requires a separate dedicated Folder Structure for file storage to operate correctly. Setting up and understanding the basic principles of these Folder Structures ahead of time will make the installations, and set-ups of MCM and uTorrent go a lot smoother, the first time, with the least amount of problems. It will also assist a user in preparing an existing media collection to be added in later.
The second issue of concern is MCM uses uTorrent’s web user interface to integrate the two programs together. This is what allows MCM to hand off a .torrent file it has fetched from an online source to uTorrent for proper downloading of the desired TV Series Episodes/Movies. It is also used by MCM for monitoring the progress of downloads to inform MCM a download has completed and is ready for parsing.
In addition to uTorrent, MCM requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update. If this is already installed on your system, there is no additional set-up for this program. It works internally with the MCM program. If it is not installed, links will be provided for downloads.
The Preliminary Installation Guides that follow these notes will show:
- How to set up a Folder Structure for MCM,
- How to set up a Folder Structure for uTorrent,
- How to Set-up and Install uTorrent,
- How to Customize uTorrent for MCM,
- How to Enable and set-up the Web User Interface of uTorrent, also
- How to check your system to see if the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update is required.
In order to reduce the problems associated with this initial installation and set-up of MCM, the information found here will not include instructions on how to set-up MCM for downloading Movies or any information about preparing and/or adding an existing media collection to MCM. Nor will there be any information given for interfacing a media collection with any Media Center Programs, such as: Windows Media Center, MediaBrowser, or XBMC. These items/issues can be added in and set-up later. Keep in mind this guide is for strictly for preparing to install MCM, so a user can get it up and running with no problems.
Preliminary Installation Guides
How to set up a Folder Structure for MCM
How to set up a Folder Structure for uTorrent
How to Set-up and Install uTorrent
How to Customize uTorrent for MCM
How to Enable and set-up the Web User Interface of uTorrent
How to check your system to see if the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update is required
Installing Media Center Master
Post Installation Guides
Media Center Master Basics
Guides for Features
Interfacing
Other Stuff
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.