TMDB Downtime

October 16th, 2009 theuni

tmdb-logoOur friends at themoviedb.org have experienced a major hard drive failure (the database is fine) and they are hard at work rebuilding. This obviously means that XBMC will not be able to scrape movie information from TMDB at this time. There is no need to report the issue, please be patient as they recover. You can watch the status on their twitter page. Good luck guys, and thanks for all you do!

Update: Looks like the site is back up and scraping is functional.

  1. davidw
    October 16th, 2009 at 04:09 | #1
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    I wonder yesterday why new fanart will not load ;D
    Now I know why
    Thx for the Info!
    Cheers David

  2. queeup
    October 16th, 2009 at 05:56 | #2
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    Thx for the info…

  3. Kenneth
    October 16th, 2009 at 06:15 | #3
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    Aww, that sucks.

    I was about to set up my XBMC installation today. Guess I’ll have to wait a little with the scraping.

  4. Discaciate
    October 16th, 2009 at 11:53 | #4
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    I’m loving this new site layout… So cool and informative.

    Thx for the info and good luck to the TMDB staff.

  5. Yellowman
    October 16th, 2009 at 14:05 | #5
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    Thanks for the information. :)

  6. AuXBoX
    October 17th, 2009 at 02:53 | #6
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    all working now

  7. name
    October 17th, 2009 at 04:20 | #7
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    unacceptable, i want a refund

  8. redtapemedia
    October 17th, 2009 at 07:24 | #8
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    Site appears to be back online :)

  9. Redin
    October 17th, 2009 at 16:32 | #9
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    Hey ppl, What’s wrong with the “Apple Movie Trailers”? They dont work…

  10. Cayotic
    October 19th, 2009 at 16:54 | #10
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    Like most XBMC users, I have multiple installations of XBMC. I was using media center companion (IMDB) to create NFO files for my movies on my server. That way I only have to scrape once, and only once, and the NFO files can stored on Xboxes that don’t have internet connectivity.

    So, does TMDB have a PC based scraper that will store NFO, fanart, and TBNs locally?

  11. theuni
    October 19th, 2009 at 17:07 | #11
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    @Cayotic
    Just scrape with tmdb once then use the built-in ‘export libraries’ function. That should do exactly what you want.

  12. Zaptor
    October 20th, 2009 at 05:17 | #12
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    There are still several fanarts and minis missing, Laura Croft to mention one.

  13. Cayotic
    October 20th, 2009 at 16:34 | #13
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    @theuni

    True but, I think exporting will only work if every box is nearly identical in regards to file/folder structure and network/server structure.

    So, if I transfer my movies from my NAS to the Xbox, and imported the file library from another xbox using external media, I don’t think it would work since the file location has changed. Correct me if I am wrong.

  14. olafBerserker77
    October 22nd, 2009 at 08:38 | #14
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    @Cayotic I recommend Ember Media Manager

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