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ghostelement · 2012-03-30, 01:42

When I go into my Kids movie genre, I only see one movie listed: It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. I have a library of almost 700 movies, and I know a lot more of them should fall under the "kids" category. What can I check to see why this is happening?

mwkurt · (This post was last modified: 2012-03-30, 02:15 by mwkurt.)

So is this a different problem than the one you posted about in the PseudoTV forum? You need to check your genres in your nfo files and make them match whatever genre you are trying to find. What is the genre you are trying to find? If it is "kids" that may be your problem. I don't think there is a genre of "kids" that movies are categorized in. In my XBMC, I have "animation" and "children". Of course you can give your movies whatever genre you wish. You just need to refresh them so XBMC will recognize the new genre.

Mark

htpc guy · 2012-03-30, 02:42

You could use a smart playlist and name it "kids". Thats what I do. I make the playlist contain files with children in the genera. You could also do rating is "rated g", "rated pg", etc...

ghostelement · 2012-05-16, 23:46

(2012-03-30, 02:08)mwkurt Wrote: So is this a different problem than the one you posted about in the PseudoTV forum? You need to check your genres in your nfo files and make them match whatever genre you are trying to find. What is the genre you are trying to find? If it is "kids" that may be your problem. I don't think there is a genre of "kids" that movies are categorized in. In my XBMC, I have "animation" and "children". Of course you can give your movies whatever genre you wish. You just need to refresh them so XBMC will recognize the new genre.

Mark

I don't have manual nfo files. I just let that info scrape from the internet.

krease · 2012-05-17, 01:22

there's also a lot of movies that don't have ratings, even though you might classify them as kids movies.

One (easy) option is to put them into a specific folder named "Kids" and have a smart playlist that looks for part of the folder name containing "kids".

Another (less specific, but no need to move files) option is to create the smart playlist on "Family" genre - catches most cases, though I've noticed a few things rated "Family" I would consider "too scary" for my 3 year old.

**sho** · 2012-05-17, 02:09

I don't believe "kids" is a genre that is used much on scraping sites. Some thing like the suggested Family or Animation could give you better results.