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Just to keep momentum up how about this idea for grouping, kinda paraphrasing the last couple of ideas.
1. Introduce a sort field in the database for videos and use this for sorting and if it's blank use the title field.
2. Add a sort title node to the .NFO file and scraper so those of us who want the Alien, Die Hard, Rambo, Harry Potter, Dirty Harry etc collections to run in 'proper' film order can drop a .NFO file in the directory and Bob's your uncle.
Good? Bad? Indifferent? I've limited C++ skills being a C# head but I did see there are at least 2 spare fields in the database definition ...
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db is completely full for movies and i dont see the need to store a sort order either. this should be done using some tag in the nfo file + a database directory node imo
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another suggested way for this function
the TV show lib in MediaStream (could be in others but i don't really use them) allows you to look a movies in the TV Show Lib if you select the "Add to TV Show" option on the movie in the Movie Lib.
So how about just adding an option to "Add to Ology" or "Add to Movie Group" or some such on each Movie in the same way as "Add to TV SHow"
Then you can access the Ologies or Movie Groups as a single item in the Movie lib. The thumb would be by default the first movie in order and maybe some ordering system could be used - would be best if this metadata came from IMDB but not sure they keep that. Maybe using year would be good enough (although movies released in strange orders eg Star Wars make it not work). On second thoughts year works well - the info is there and it is logical
my 2 cents
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You can, ofcourse, bump the number of columns and add another one (or 10).
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Sounds and looks good, the only caveat here though is the movie connections seem to be purely chronological and Star Wars 1-3 being prequels should appear prior to 4-6 but that should be easily fixed manually once the data is returned.
I think this might well be the best compromise at an automatic sorting solution and I'm all for compromises to achieve a common goal, although I'm still of the opinion that manual intervention is the cleanest and lowest impact solution. You gotta love XBMC!
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for me the issue is not the order that things would be in (there are many ways to order movies, date, part, alpha etc - i am happy to use what ever) although i guess others do in which case being able to select another order might be nice but i'll be buggered if i had to manually group 20+ Bond films together - it should be automatic as a first step.
the problem for me is finding the movie in the first place.
take James Bond for example 20+ movies that using IMDB and Lib view today spreads them from a-z (well not quite but close to)
then take Indiana Jones - the first movie is called Raiders of the lost Ark where are the others are called Indiana Jones and..... and hence not together
the way i think of finding movies is group then specific movie (i can't remember the specific naming conventions for each series)
my 2 cents