[thereddog]

What I want to do is pretty simple, not sure how tough it will be to implement. Before XBMC, I have ripped the audio track from the concert DVD's to MP3 to listen. Now I want to be able to watch a music DVD as easily as it is to play an album.

First, specs:
XBMC 10.1 using the Night skin
Windows 7 x64

Music file system like so:
D:\Artist\[Year] Album\Artist - 01 - Title.mp3
D:\Artist\[Year] Album\Artist - 02 - Title.mp3
D:\Artist\[Year] Album\Artist - 03 - Title.mp3
D:\Artist\[Year] Album\Album.jpg


Let's use an artist with multiple albums and one DVD, toe.

I have now
D:\toe\[2002] Songs, Ideas We Forgot
D:\toe\[2003] Re-designed
D:\toe\[2005] The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
D:\toe\[2006] New Sentimentality
D:\toe\[2006] RGBDVD
D:\toe\[2009] For Long Tomorrow

And I want to be able to toss in a new folder with the DVD file (AVI most likely) and have it show up under toe, along with all their other albums in XBMC

D:\toe\[2006] RGBDVD (DVD)\RGBDVD.avi


I am sure this is possible, but what do I need to do in order to accomplish this? If I need to be more specific, let me know.

[thereddog]

24hr bump

[thereddog]

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[thereddog]

Can someone at least point me in the right direction..?

[Voyager]

AFAIK, you cannot include videos in the music library, but you could add the same source as a video source, so your AVI would show up in the video library (if you manually add it, I guess, unless it's recognized by one of the scrapers you use for this source).

[thereddog]

What about setting up a video library under Music on the XBMC home screen? Like you would would select "recently added movies" from the home screen...

[sialivi]

How about treating them as music videos? Create a media source and set the content to Music Video. The scraper probably wont recognise the concerts but you can provide the info yourself using an .nfo file.

Here are the most relevant fields for the .nfo file:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<musicvideo>
    <artist>Amon Amarth</artist>
    <title>Runes to My Memory</title>
    <year>2006</year>
    <album>With Oden on Our Side</album>
    <studio>Metal Blade Records</studio>
</musicvideo>

Hope it works for you.

[thereddog]

Thank you! This may be what I'm looking for... I'll let you know how it goes...

[thereddog]

I have a DVD that I downloaded in two parts. It's two different sets, two different video files.

Is there a special way to format the NFO file to account for multiple videos?

[sialivi]

Are you still talking about concerts or is this a movie?

Are these DVD's with menu's and everything? ISO or VIDEO_TS?

[thereddog]

Are you still talking about concerts or is this a movie?

Are these DVD's with menu's and everything? ISO or VIDEO_TS?

This is all concerts, one AVI/MP4 file, with the exception of one concert which is two sets


I'm using the Night skin, ideally I would like to have music videos as a sub-menu under Music on the home screen. I only have 10 or 12 concerts that I want to add to XBMC, so I am OK with organizing them as Artist - Concert under music videos

[sialivi]

I don't use Night so I'm not familiar with its features, but there are several skins that have Music Videos as a submenu entry under Music.

Put both parts of the multi-part concert in the same folder and add something like -disc1 and -disc2 to the end of their file names. Ex:

\Concert Name\Concert Name-disc1.avi
\Concert Name\Concert Name-disc2.avi

Should appear as a single video in the library which will automatically play both parts (or play a specific part if you pick "play part..." from the context menu)