Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I have about 100GB of comic books that I have to shuttle back and forth between skydrive, dropbox, and storage on my tablet. Most comic book files are simply cbr and cbz archives, which are just renamed rar and zip files respectively. I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement, but with the influx of tablets and tablet support for MB, I think a comic book section would be a fantastic addition to MB for centralized control and metadata management. Here's one existing comic book metadata format: http://code.google.com/p/comicbookinfo/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 My MB Bookshelf plugin is in it's infancy, but it does support comics if they are still using the cbr/cbz file extension. The MBC plugin will pass the comic to windows to open in your preferred reader program such as comicrack. MBT's external players can be configured to open books as well. The Android client handles comics as well. MB3 is way ahead of you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Am I reading that right in that I can stream comics to my android tablet via the bookshelf plugin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) Very cool. I'm having a little trouble with configuration. Do you have any tutorials yet? Also, I see MBC, MB Android, and MBT... any chance we could get it worked into the Windows 8 app? How do I get it to scrape metadata? It seems to be having trouble with all of mine. Edited November 30, 2013 by Netbug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37098 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I was planning on introducing MB3 and the plugin to Calibre: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166 Perhaps if we can bring more book users to mb3, our ui developers will be more motivated to spend more time on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Am I reading that right in that I can stream comics to my android tablet via the bookshelf plugin? If your using my android client then when a book/comic is played it will be downloaded to the downloads (or comics) folder if it's not there already and then opened in a supported reader.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 I was planning on introducing MB3 and the plugin to Calibre: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166 Perhaps if we can bring more book users to mb3, our ui developers will be more motivated to spend more time on them. That would be fantastic. I use Calibre for my entire ebook collection and love the way it handles them. I haven't endeavoured to have it look after my comics yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Very cool. I'm having a little trouble with configuration. Do you have any tutorials yet? Also, I see MBC, MB Android, and MBT... any chance we could get it worked into the Windows 8 app? How do I get it to scrape metadata? It seems to be having trouble with all of mine. I wrote a brief example here. Metadata is where this plugin still needs to grow. It supports local metadata for books and comics, and online metadata from comicvine for comics. it doesn't yet extract a folder image from the comics/books, so a local image is needed if not sourced from the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 I wrote a brief example here. Metadata is where this plugin still needs to grow. It supports local metadata for books and comics, and online metadata from comicvine for comics. it doesn't yet extract a folder image from the comics/books, so a local image is needed if not sourced from the web. So I think the following structure, which is what I use, may be problematic... Comics/Marvel/[Marvel] - Avengers Assemble/Avengers Assemble #001.cbr Comics/Marvel/[Marvel] - Avengers Assemble/Avengers Assemble #002.cbr etc. Will this not work? Does every issue need to be in its own folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 That structure will work, but the naming convention won't... The plugin can't resolve the issue number if it's preceeded with a #. I need a Regex wizard to step up and help me with that... Also, the name of the series may be an issue. The plugin uses the parent folder to match the series name, and MB filters out anything in hard brackets. So the plugin would be trying to match " - Avengers Assemble" rather than "Avengers Assemble". I'm pretty sure I filter out the dash and other characters, I'm just emphasizing that the folder name has to match the series name on comicvine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 That structure will work, but the naming convention won't... The plugin can't resolve the issue number if it's preceeded with a #. I need a Regex wizard to step up and help me with that... Also, the name of the series may be an issue. The plugin uses the parent folder to match the series name, and MB filters out anything in hard brackets. So the plugin would be trying to match " - Avengers Assemble" rather than "Avengers Assemble". I'm pretty sure I filter out the dash and other characters, I'm just emphasizing that the folder name has to match the series name on comicvine. Ok. I'll go through an manually pull the hard brackets. I've never used ComicRack but after messing around with it for a bit, it doesn't play well with network drives. I'm going to need a different solution for metadata editing, which is a problem. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Better metadata support is very high on my bucket list of things to do with this plugin. I just need to find more time. Perhaps clone myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Cloning would be wise. I'll mess around with it for a bit and see if I can break it. For now, if I need to edit metadata, can it be done through the web interface at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I want to say yes, but I don't think the storing it locally option would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netbug 26 Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Doh. No worries. Glad there's someone working on a solution. If you need me to break anything for testing, let me know... i seem to be good at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanos 4 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I have it set so I can access my server from outside the network and I'm having trouble opening my cbr/cbz files on my windows 7 tablet pc. When I try to open using comic rack the program opens but doesn't open the book, when I use CDisplay the program opens and gives an error. Is the android app the only way to access books from outside the network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markle88 14 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Has there been any progress on this plugin? The only client i can get to work is the android. I love this concept and would really like to see it expanded for cbz files. The Metadata issue seems to be a big obstacle. All of my comics have a Comicinfo.xml file stored internally. It would be great if the plugin could read that file directly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37098 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I'm sure we will get to it. Right now books just don't have a large enough audience relative to the other media types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGo 103 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Any movement on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37098 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Not yet, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkbeuh 2 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 I've been looking at Emby because Plex is starting to piss me off as a whole. And this is a feature they are totally ignoring even though it is heavily demanded. Emby does this and I'm switching in an instant. I have yet to find a decent client/server solution to read my comics on a tablet from my distant server. There is a need. Please consider 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MembyR 0 Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I've been looking at Emby because Plex is starting to piss me off as a whole. And this is a feature they are totally ignoring even though it is heavily demanded. Emby does this and I'm switching in an instant. I have yet to find a decent client/server solution to read my comics on a tablet from my distant server. There is a need. Please consider That makes two of us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSOBadger 12 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Add me to the list of folks who would love to see comic book functionality added to Emby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex194 2 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 another one here.... i have tons of comics i would like to add to my emby server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miniliQuid 85 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Feature has been requested, add votes there Need more ebook & comic book lovers to get the request rolling though, it doesn't have nearly enough interest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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