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Media Center Master Reference Guide: Main Page Installing Media Center Master Installation Notes - read, before installing Quick Set-up: Premium Version, Torrent Downloads Quick Set-up: Premium Version, Usenet Downloads Preliminary Installation Guides How to Set-Up a Folder Structure for Media Center Master How to Set-Up a Folder Structure for uTorrent How to Install uTorrent How to Specify Locations to the uTorrent Folder Structure How to Configure Settings for Transparent Effect How to Disable Pop-up Windows How to Disable Seeding of Completed Downloads How to Enable the Web User Interface of uTorrent How to Check Your System for the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 Update How to Install Media Center Master How to Customize Media Center Master for First Run How to Configure the General Tab Settings How to Configure the Download Parser Tab Settings How to Configure the Download Parser Tab Settings - Transparent Effect How to Configure the uTorrent Tab Settings How to Auto-Start Media Center Master After a Boot-up How to Set Scan Folder How to Configure the Downloader Tab Settings How to Add a New TV Series How to Start the First Run How to Interpret the First Run <<< click here to edit or add new page links >>>

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***** Disclaimer -- read this before using Usenet Downloader *****

Media Center Master Version 1.33 should be used with this guide. Additional registration and activation at other sites is required for Usenet downloads, no additional software is needed.

This guide is for users having experience with Usenet downloads and media collections. It provides a basic set-up configuration for downloading Movies and TV Series Episodes with the associated meta-data for each. It does not include information for setting up an existing collection for fetching meta-data.

A detailed set of guides is available for downloading with torrents. It starts with the Installation Notes - read, before installing and finishes with How to Interpret the First Run. It includes images, details about the steps, information about how the processing of fetching meta-data, downloads, and automation works, as related to the installation. It is designed for a specific task of downloading a few episodes at a specific time for a known result to be used for testing the user's configuration and settings.

The settings used in all of the guides are not designed to be used as a real life, real time, configuration. These guides are intended to get an installation of Media Center Master functional so the settings can then be customized by the user. Jumping between the guides (attempting to shorten the length of the detailed guide) to customize a user set-up may not produce the results the user is wishing to accomplish.

The wiki guides use a different presentation for a configuration setup than what is listed in the forums (Support>(Guide) MCM & µTorrent integration). Do not attempt to jump between the wiki guides and the forum guide to solve a problem.

Should a user have issues with the program or any of the guides, support is available through the forum. How to access logs, support information file, and other information is listed at the end of this guide. Please send any related material, what guide was used, step number, portion of log file, support information, screen captures... along with a detailed description of the problem in you topic.

Media Center Master's Support for Usenet

1. Media Center Master will search NZBMatrix.com looking for T.V. episodes and movies relative to the user configuration.
2. Media Center Master will connect to your Usenet/news hosting provider and begin downloading those articles, as it is also a fully-fledged NZB downloader.
3. Alternatively,

   Media Center Master can move the .nzb files elsewhere, or start them with a third-party external application.

Media Center Master Settings

Additional options, outside of what is listed, should be added after a test run.

1. Application Menu>Set scan folders...

   Enter folder Location/s for Media Collections.

   Must use separate folders, one for Movies and one for TV Series.

   For first time run/test purposes empty folder/s should be chosen.

   If a folder with an existing media collection is used for this location,

   Media Center Master will automatically start a scan of the folder contents after closing the Scan Folder List Window.

2. Application Menu>Settings & Preferences>Renaming Tab.

   Set options as needed.

3. Application Menu>Settings & Preferences>Downloader Tab.

   Enable, "Enable movie downloads."

   Select quality of download.

   Enable, "Enable TV downloads."

   Select quality of download.

   Skip TV episodes before:^(*)

   If this option is not set to a date, Media Center Master will attempt to download every episode for each TV Series added.

   "Don't download movies with an IMDB score under:"

   Setting this number to "10" will reduce the number of movie titles to be downloaded during test run.

   "Don't download movies released..."

   Setting this number to "1" will, also, reduce the number of movie titles to be downloaded during test run.

   "Don't download movies that can't be found at imdb.com"

   Enabling this option will further reduce the number of movie titles to be downloaded during the test run.

   "Look for higher definition of movies than what I have and download if found"

   This option, if enabled, will not work with this test run (scan folders should be empty).

   ^(*)Episode downloads are dependent on this date setting, and the Airing Dates of the TV Series/s chosen in Step 7.

4. Application Menu>Settings & Preferences>Usenet Tab.

   Enable, "Enable Usenet downloads."

   Enter NZBMatrix.com username and password.

   "What should Media Center Master do when it downloads a .nzb file:"

   It is suggested to, only, use the following option for the test run.

   "Let Media Center Master download from Usenet directly using these settings:"

   Provide information in blank fields, if needed change settings for "port:" and "max. connections:"

5. Application Menu>Settings & Preferences>Download Parser Tab.

   Completed downloads scanned from this folder (watch folder):^(*)

   Create folder and enter folder location where Media Center Master is to move completed downloads.

   The default NZB processing folder is located in Media Center Master's user hidden folder.

   Automatically detect new video files here and process them.

   Enable this option, and

   Enable, "auto-rename"

   Enable, "auto-move"

   Enable, "auto-fetch meta data"

   Don't allow duplicates; replace with better quality

   This will not work in the test run (scan folders should be empty)

   Move movie downloads to this folder:

   If this location is not set to the same location set in Step 1, these movies will not be processed into the collection cache.

   "Attempt to extract from archives"

   .rar downloads will require this option.

   "Automatically clean-up folders left behind by T.V. downloads (if no video files or archives exist)"

   Enable/Disable - user choice.

   ^(*)The "Watch Folder" for completed downloads can also be the same folder used for uTorrent, if torrent downloading is also used.

6. Click "Save" button to save settings and exit "Settings & Preferences."

7. Media Menu>Add a T.V. series...

   Step 1.

   Be careful to select the T.V. folder, not the Movie folder, from list.

   Step 2.

   Enter a current airing TV Series Name, or Series ID.

   Spelling or ID must match thetvdb.com site TV Show Listing Name.

   Click "Search," or "Look Up".

   Wait for Media Center Master to respond with Selected T.V. series: information.

   Click "Next."

   Step 3.

   Double check: "Status: Continuing," and that the option for "Keep this series up to date with new episodes" is enabled.

   Click "Finish" button to close window.

8. Auto Run.

   Application Menu>Settings & Preferences>General Tab.

   Adjust Time Frames.

   download new movies every.

   download new TV episode every.

   run download parser every.

   use uTorrent integration every.

9. Manual Run.

   TV Series.

   Tools Menu>Download new T.V. episodes.

   Right Click on the Series in the Media Collection List.

   Download new episodes now.

   Movies.

   Tools Menu>Download new movie releases.

10. Usenet Download Manager.

    The Usenet Download Manager is where a user can manage and view the progress of all current usenet downloads.

    Tools Menu>Usenet download manger...

11. Additional Options.

    Search Forum, or Post Topic in Forum.

    See User Interface for Option Descriptions in wiki.

    This is a work in progress, please be patient.

Additional References

Support Information, Log Files, Debugging, and About

User Settings and Program Files/Folders Locations

Preparing for a Fresh Re-install of Media Center Master