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Any news? This seems like a feature that lots of people would want...
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I haven't had any luck on it, but I'm not very good with C++ so don't hold your breath on me...if anyone else is able to do this feel free.
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Does anyone know if anything happened on this?
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no, nothings been done for this, but it is something on my personal todo list. im curious if people use the "edit title" and for what? do you use it to correct movie titles? if so, thats the wrong way to do it. you should use video info -> refresh -> manual movie title entry. or is it used to customize the title for things like this?
if its to correct sorting "anomalies", the plan would be to add a new table to the database that links against the movie-id. this table would contain the custom sort title. it would never be displayed, only used for sorting decisions.
would something like this remove the need for the "edit title" function? the video library context menu is getting really large.
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no. edit title is for when you think the original formatting sucks arse, e.g. sequels numbered using roman numbers but you want to use "normal" ones. do not remove, it is highly usable
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Perhaps move it in to the new "video info that can edit bloody everything dialog"? I'll start discussing this with Jezz_X as it fits in quite nicely with the in-place edit control stuff.
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spiff, that's what i've used it for, but i was curious what the general user populace was using it for. it's definately time for a nice editor dialog. the custom sort-only title would just be another field that can be edited.
On a related note, I've been considering changing the "Ignore The" sorting code. I find it a little awkward to see titles with "The" randomly in the listing. I was considering having the code that populates the items with the query results to change the label into this format: "Foo, The". this would mean we dont need any special sorting algorithms.
And Video Files view adheres to the "Ignore The" setting, but Music doesn't. This should be consistent.
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Sure, that's an option that I wouldn't be adverse to. What do others think?
Oh, and I'd ignore it in filesview and just sort plain.
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Cool!
Thanks guys, maybe Æon Flux will actually appear at the beginning of the list and not the end when it has a sort title of Aeon Flux ;-)
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I have some movie sagas like Star Wars or LOTR and some Multi-Disk movies like King Kong or Grindhouse that I would prefer were in a separate folder like TV Episodes.
But I can't seem to figure out how to encapsulate these movies so they show up as one entry that I can select and to show the other movies.
Any ideas on how best to do this?
-Ethan
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I don't think that's possible currently. The only way I can see you doing it is to make a Genre for them i.e. Genre = LOTR Trilogy. The when you browse be genre's, you'll see that and be able to click and see all your LOTR movies. But you won't be able to have them grouped under one node, and listed with all of your movies.
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I may put in feature request for a grouping movies be it by folder or XML definition.
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In fact I could see this being useful for transcribing DVDs into a more compressed format but keeping the extra feature videos linked to the video.
I currently keep all of DVDs as ISOs since it's easiest way to keep the extra features intact.
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