[deanobirko]

Frustrating Library problems...

Hi I am pretty new to all this. I asked a question yesterday about importing my UFC collection into its own library.

Someone suggested using a Playlist. I set up my playlist and pointed it to my ufc collection which was scraped using IMDB. Now, when I click on my home screen "UFC" option, im taken to my Movie collection with the UFC folder in there.

How do I stop my UFC collection showing up in my Movie collection? If I change it to TV shows, the scrapers dont work.

Can you not make a separate library and call it whatever you like?

I saw a guide on here but it was so confusing, I didnt know how to follow it.

Thanks for the patience and hopefully its something minor that im missing out.

Cheers
Deano

[jschoen]

You unfortunately can not just create separate libraries in XBMC.

I had a similar situation, where I wanted essentialy my movies, and my kids movies separate. I went the playlist route. The only thing you need to do now is create a second playlist and point it to the directory to you have your movies in instead of the the UFC collection.

I also would rather be able to create separate libraries, and hopefully we will be able to in the future. I think the entire scraper API is being redesigned and there is talk in essentially allowing it to create various libraries. Until then, playlists are your friend.

[Mudislander]

You could look at this in the nightlies Video library reorganisation via XML

[deanobirko]

Thanks for the replies.

MUDISLANDER: In essence, that sounds like what I need, but I got lost during all the coding and jargon. I guess its a feature that i will have to wait for.

[quebert]

The way I ended up doing my UFC was I created another user that's just for my MMA. Won't work for you if you want everything accessable at the same time. But I actually kind of like having a user where the database is all MMA. There's probably a better way, but I haven't found one. The only other method I found that worked was to add my MMA stuff to the files and tell it tn scan to library. Downside is it won't scrape the covers/info, and you won't be able to access it in library mode. But it will work in file mode and you don't have to create another user.

[deanobirko]

Thanks Quebert, ended up using files view and a shortcut. Ill wait and see if someone makes a scraper in future... Thanks guys.