I was fortunate enough to be an alpha/beta tester for the upcoming Meta<Browser /> 2.0 application and wanted to announce that I will be releasing an extensive preview of it on Friday at my site, www.theHTPC.net.

If you're not familiar with Meta<Browser />, then I will repeat what its developer states about the current version from his site, www.themetabrowser.com:

"Meta<browser/> is an all-in-one solution to retrieve metadata for Movies and TV shows through the available APIs of themoviedb.org (TMDb) and thetvdb.com (TVDb).  It was primarily created to provide metadata for what I believe is one of the best Vista Media Center plugins created, Media Browser, but can be used by any application that utilizes MyMovies.xml for movies or Series.xml and corresponding metadata folder for TV Episodes."

Meta<Browser /> 2.0 will throw out some of the limitations the current version imposes, primarily, what front-ends it provides metadata and images for.

I will save everything else for Friday, but will say that even unfinished, it is an amazing application.

If you use Twitter, Follow Me and you will get notified as soon as the preview is released.  Otherwise, just check www.theHTPC.net on Friday.

Belive me, "cool" is a murderous understatement for this application.

The current version is quite good.  I can't think of any real issues other than timeouts when downloading the images, and having to manually point to the right movie more than I expected.  I'm looking forward to see what the new version will do.

bytor

Full review now available here.