shaefurr Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 So, I keep my ebooks sorted by series name - author, if there's no series its just by author. The problem is when browsing through my books the main page is all just titles and authors with no covers, is there a way to inherit a cover from one of the subfolders? I guess I could manually do this but it would take me 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwinHummels Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 I mis use MetaBrowser for this It's still a way to do it manual but it works faster then copy covers myself. As far as I know is there no scraper for this ATM I Get the writer info manual from wikipedia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpbpete Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 shaefurr, I'm in the same boat. I found this http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php which I use to rename and copy/move the cover.jpg from the book folder to the author folder as a folder.jpg. The only problem is that I can't figure out how to automate the process, I have to choose each folder path. If somehow it would repeat the process, then we can rename and copy/move the entire dir. They have a command line utility also, which I have no clue where to begin, but it looks like it might run a batch and accomplish this also. Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 yeah im still looking into it, thanks for the tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abobader Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Yes, same issue here as well, still looking for solution for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 I almost had this working the other night, I have a half working .bat at the moment My setup is this: Z:\eBooks\BookSeries\Booktitle\folder.jpg \Booktitle2\folder.jpg \Booktitle3\folder.jpg or if no series is found Z:\eBooks\BookAuthor\Booktitle\folder.jpg \Booktitle2\folder.jpg The .bat should pull the folder.jpg and move them up 1 folder to the Series or Author folder, problem is its copying them to the current folder the .bat is running from (eBooks), not just up one parent folder. once I figure that out it should work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution shaefurr Posted November 20, 2013 Author Solution Share Posted November 20, 2013 (edited) Got the .bat working. Moved .bat to tools section here: http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/2239-ebook-bot-rename-covers-metadata-inherit-covers/&do=findComment&comment=40954 Edited November 20, 2013 by shaefurr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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