Add-In Update: My Movies for Windows Home Server 1.03

My Movies for Windows Home Server has been updated to version 1.03, and author Brian Binnerup has given the add-in a big boost in it’s music ripping capabilites, as well as providing a number of bug fixes for the software. I’m not a huge DVD collector, but I do like my music, and the new CD Ripping facilities Brian’s adding is making me love this add-in more and more.

Here’s a run down of what’s on offer:

Added: MusicBrainz as meta-data provider along with FreeDB.org
Added: Option to receive Album Art from MusicBrainz/Amazon
Added: Ability to embed Album Art into MP3, WMA and Flac
Added: Ability to contribute Album Art to the My Movies WebService, and receive Album Art from the WebService.
Added: Option to create a secondary smaller CD rip for mobile devices
Added: Improved meta data handling that combines various sources into one result for improved accuracy.
Added: GD3 commercial high-quality meta-data for installer version. Will later be available as an add-on purchase for end-users.
Fix: FileStorage area moved to drive D to awoid problems with missing space for users with large collections
Fix: Auto-update AnyDVD setting lost when entering the settings page.
Fix: Issue with monitoring using a full share instead of part of a share, if only part of a share should be monitored
Fix: Incorrect WMA profile settings
Fix: Some MP3 settings were not correct applied
Fix: Notifications was removed at incorrect times.

The 1.02 PR4 version held the following improvements over 1.01:

Added: Automatic database backup feature. Automatically runs backup during the night with the internal you choose, and lets you choose how many backups to keep.
Added: Ability to use non WHS based shares and part of a share for copy target and monitoring.
Added: Support for Flac lossless music codec for Music Disc Copier.
Added: Option to reject disc if no meta-data is found for Movie Disc Copier. This allows you to use a client to contribute disc id’s for unknown discs, and then re-insert the disc to be copied with proper meta-data.
Added: Ability for movie disc copier to copy to Media Center extender compatible MPEG2 format, either as only file, or as combination of VIDEO_TS folder structure and MPEG2 file.
Change: Now asks to set services to manual startup when you stop them, to awoid them from restarting after a reboot.
Fix: Runs optimize and clean of unused covers, photos and temp files before running a backup.
Fix: Movie disc can some times be rejected if it has been previously copied, even though the file no longer exists.
Fix: Notifications can pop up again and again. Notifications is now removed after a specific time period, depending on their importance.
Fix: Movie disc copier can fail to copy discs if the disc name in the meta-data contains special characters.
Fix: Firewall configuration issues can occur on some newer version HP Home Servers.
Fix: SQL Server install could error out if firewall configuration fails.
Fix: Clean photos on database backup
Fix: Percentage only goes to 99 percent and not 100 until the task is fully complete

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