Meteor
Don't have time to play with my remote.
let's get everything set up
In order to get those most out of Meteor, you need to set your environment up. As Meteor is at its best when coupled with the rich metadata that you have on your htpc, it's important that you've got everything set up.
so, how do you make the most out of it?
Everyone's setup is different, so Meteor won't automatically work for everyone. In order to get the most out of Meteor, we find the following process to be the best:
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Set up your libraries
For music and recorded TV, Meteor uses the Windows Media Player libraries and for videos, Meteor looks at all the folders in the Windows Videos library. The best way to do this is set up specific locations for your libraries and just drag and drop items there, or you can right-click on a folder and select "Include in Library", to fine-control things.
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Grab some metadata
Meteor uses the same files used by Media Browser (metadata.xml) and fetched by programs such as Metabrowser and MediaScout. If this stuff isn't found, Meteor will do its best impression of a wizard and attempt to parse your files directly; but this is not ideal. Alternatively, as of version 1.2 Meteor can find this metadata itself - go here to see how to set it up!
We have no affiliation with any of the programs above, but we do use that stuff to set things up. -
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Start Media Center and enjoy (hopefully)!
Once you've set up your libraries and folders and grabbed some quality metadata, all you need to do is start Media Center and Meteor does the rest!
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Set up multiple Meteor instances!
If you have multiple computers in your home, you can set up your Meteor installation so that Meteor will recognise all of your computers and allow you to choose between them. Please check out this handy guide for details.
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support
Got any issues?
If you have any issues installing, running or connecting to your Meteor service, check out this page for details of what you can do from here.