2013-01-17, 14:12
I kindly ask the moderators to consider the practicality of collecting everything library related under a single section (or sub-section) of this forum.
IMO the following issues must be collected under a common heading:
- Metadata - schema design: What information is useful for each particular media file type?
- Database (SQL) design.
- Database design: optimal normalization of tables.
- Mapping of database fields/tables to NFO files tags.
- Editing and customizing the database and (correspondingly) the NFO schemata.
- Usability: when to use and when not to use genres, sets, tags.
- Database editors and database managers. (I suggest that discussion of those tools be moved from the section Supplementary Tools here --- in practice, they are library-only managers.)
- Directly adding to the database sans scrapers.
- Modifying the view nodes to reflect any customization of the database, especially the addition of new fields/tables/NFO tags.
- Concomitant modifications of the media info view(s) of skins.
- Optimal use of smart playlists.
- Add more functionality to playlists (e.g., mix movies, tvshows and generic videos under videos).
- Database redesign: open forum.
- Functionality comparison with alternative media managers and forks (e.g. Plex).
- Should library mode be merged with file mode? Is file mode as currently exists satisfactory?
- Reduce Internet scraping to the minimum optimal.
- Enable non-scraping Internet lookups (e.g. to YouTube or Wikipedia or even directly to metadata sites) from within the library mode context menu. (A constant prob;em with metadata sites is that they get redesigned to block scraping; but they do not object to non-scraping lookups).
The enumeration is not suggestive of rank of importance, I just jotted down what crossed my mind.
Whether the title "Library: Structure, Presentation, Customization, Administration" is functional, is naturally open to debate.