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Hi all,
I'm a first-time XBMC user, with the software installed on Win7/64. Until I get this all set up the way I want, I will use the Confluence skin.
How do you remove a path from a library? When I added movies, I first added an SMB path to my NAS folder (SMB://MEDIA-NAS/MOVIES). Without thinking, I also added the mapped drive path to the same folder (M:\). Now, of course, every movie has two entries. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to remove one of the two paths. Adding is easy, removing....not so much. In VIDEOS->Libraries, if I select MOVIES it just lists Genres, title, year, etc.
I would also like to add a source to the home banner for HOME VIDEO, if that's possible. I want to keep this separate from MOVIES and TV SHOWS, and not have to navigate menus-deep as this is a family entertainment centre, intended to be used by non-computer people.
Basically, when XBMC starts up at the home screen, I want my highly-non-geeky older family members to have exactly three choices: TV Shows, Movies and Home Movies (as well as settings and exit, but they do know enough not to mess around in settings and if they exit, to get back in easy enough with the remote). Can this be done? Thankee.
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As far as removing a source...
If you go the files browser, through the videos--> files, then highlight the redundant source and use the context menu (keyboard press "c") to bring up the remove source option.
For custom home menu options, a la "home movies", you'll need to use a skin other than the default Confluence. Most other skins allow custom home menu items.
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2014-08-24, 21:37
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-24, 21:38 by DXer.)
Still something badly wrong.
After the change to the Sources.xml file and system re-start, if I go into Videos - Files - Movies I see the titles listed properly. If I go back to the home screen and select movies, I'm still seeing hundreds of duplicates, and all of the bad dupes have SMB:// locations. I should note that the SMB path *is* correct, but it's pointing to the same path as mapped drive "M:\" -- hence the dupes.
This is crazy!
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I forgot to also say - clean the library to remove links to titles no longer in the library.
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That did not work either. I wound up deleting the videos**.db file and rebuilding all the libraries. A bit of a PITA but it seemed to work.
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Clean library will only remove items that are not accessible anymore. In this case both files existed, which is why they weren't removed
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Would there have been a more elegant solution than deleting and re-creating the database? For an app that's otherwise incredibly slick, this seems to be a bit of a pain, for an operation that's not all that uncommon (something added in error, deleted and re-created).
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When you remove a file source in the XBMC GUI it will ask if you want to apply that removal to the library. Say yes. If you don't then you will have a "phantom" source that exists in the DB but not in the GUI.
If you didn't say "yes" then you need to re-add the source and then remove it again so it will ask the question again.
It's messy, I know.
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Yeah, so far, of all the things I've messed with, the library functions are infinitely more complicated than they really need to be, and far more so than in MediaBrowser or Plex. Maybe the devs could find a way to rework this for the next major release? Maintaining and modifying a library is probably the first and foremost part of an HTPC after all. Oh well, all's good now.
I'm still trying to find a way to add a home screen shortcut (in a different skin) for my home movies and my, ahhhhhh, "other" collection.
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I believe managing library sources is getting a major improvement thanks to some of the media import/library sharing work being done.
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This is great news. From the perspective of a complete beginner, having never seen or heard of XBMC before last Friday, I can tell you that the idea of launching the app for the first time, going to "Library" and just adding mapped or UNC paths as the first thing one sees/does should be obvious. Likewise, mistakes in first-time setup are very likely to occur at this stage.
For all it's infinite flexibility, I think part of that hurts XBMC's adoption in much the same way that Linux can be intimidating, even with a GUI shell. I love options--the ability to customize an app or an OS to within an inch of its life (and then some), but having things like a "Beginner mode" with just a few options and a fast setup-to-run time would be an ideal thing.
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2014-08-29, 21:54
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-29, 21:55 by Kib.)
The library sources update is great but I believe it will be helix+1 (Kodi 15) alpha build our later before we'll see it.