The news keeps on coming thick and fast at the moment, this time its a new module to download Poster and Fanart. MeediOS has had a batch movie importer for a while but lacked the ability to change the artwork inside the MeediOS GUI. With the release of the new version of meePopupProvider you can change posters or fanart via a pop up link. As always thanks to flclsd for the plugin development and crn for his testing and theme support.

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Thanks to Hisdudity, we have some great new playlist functionality for MeediOS: MixMee Suite integrates a complete solution to create intelligent mixes from your music library. Choose a specific track or ask it to select one at random and MixMee instantly creates a mix based on the style of those tracks. As the process does not rely on file tags but on audiofingerprinting (i.e. acoustic analysis), it even works on unorganized collections.

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A nice snippet from our forums on the Meedio to MeediOS upgrade process:

"I would just like to say ... WOW .. being a reasonably excessive meedio user for about 2 years .. the setup was miles ahead of my first meedio 1.41 install .. and it was a matter of minutes before meedios was spewing fanart at me .. WOW .. its absolutely incredible .. Id just like to take the time out to say to the developers of the core and all the plugins .. THANK YOU .. (especially HDW) using the new meedios and then firing up my old meedio install to compare .. makes me realise how absolutely mindblowing the new meedios is .. this is a VERY special app .. with potential to be (if it isnt already) the PREMIUM HTPC app ..."

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MeediOS has a couple of plugins that can download data from online sources for your Movies and Music collections. Each plugin supports additional plugins for grabbing data called scrapers. Recently an update has been released that can automatically download available scrapers that have been uploaded to OpenMAID on the MeediOS website. Scrapers can be used to grab fanart, posters, details, album reviews, lyrics and artist images. Anyone can write a scaper plugin following a basic API which has resulted in many sites and languages being suported in MeediOS.

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MeediOS is designed around a very small core with many plugins. Each plugin performs its own task which together makes up the HTPC application. This makes MeediOS infinitely configurable but difficult to setup for the new user. For this reason we offer an "ultimate pack" that includes all the necessary plugins, importers and views to get up and running. Thanks to all the great work by JKM on our forums we can now announce its availability for MeediOS. Take a look at the forum thread for the download, instructions and discussion.

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Our friends over at meedios-france.com have started a global project to internationalize MeediOS with various install packs. Check the forum thread for a list of the different packs with work being done on French, Italian, German, Chinese and of course English.

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CRN has made available a new version of his popular Evolution theme to correspond with the release of meePopupProvider. Change list below:

- added movie-large-details mode
- added episode-new-list mode by Jong
- added movie-fanart-list and series-fanart-list modes respectively
- added wide-efstrip mode in TVshows and Movies screens
- added support for meePopup trailers
- added trailer indicator for movies
- fixed bugs
- optimized code

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