Vishal's Blog 

I loved using MetaBrower, it was a great app and it still is. However, it's no longer free and that something which saddens me. Initially when it decided that it will be paid and a yearly "subscription fee" of $20 will be applicable, IMHO, I thought it was a little more (considering you end up paying this every year).

I am using an older version of MetaBrower and recently I found that it is fetching small images for backdrops and posters. As per those guys, this is happening due to the changes at themoviedb.org's end. Thus, I finally decided to go and buy the new version which I presume will not have this glitch. Surprise! The price has just gone to $30 (29.99 to be precise). Great! And this made me think, what if I buy this now and what if this goes to $40 or even $50 next year? I backed out.

But then it opened a door for me to write a similar application myself. That's correct, I will be writing a full-fledged application that fetches movie/tv metadata for using it in a Media center application. I will be calling this application getMeta, which I think is an apt name. I know this will raise a lot of questions among people keen to know more about it and probably use it someday. For that I will be posting an FAQ soon. Meanwhile, if you're interested, you can keep checking my blog and/or feel free to send in your queries at getmeta [at] hotmail.com.

Though, at this point I do have a rough Roadmap for this app. Below are the features which will be included in the first release of getMeta:
* Movie Search withe metadata retrieval
* Posters and Backdrop retrieval
* Folder processing

I know it's not much at this point but I want to get this out in the open as early as possible and then, based on the community's feedback, keep adding on features to it. I have a lot of ideas at this point but it only makes sense to see the community's reaction/feedback and then go about implementing them.

I will be posting more updates soon.

Thanks,