Posts: 108
Joined: Oct 2012
Reputation:
2
I have 1 Fire TV and 2 Fire TV sticks running Kodi, everything is working pretty well.
One question I can't figure out. I sort my movies by "Year --> Descending" so the newest stuff is on top. When I do this, 2014 movies stay together, and 2013 movies stay together, but within the year it's kind of a cluster. There will be movies listed higher in the sort that came out months after movies sorted later in the list. I can't really see a rhyme or reason to it. I just use the MovieDB scraper, not nfo files, I assumed it would sort descending by the IMDB USA release date, but apparently it doesn't. All three of my Kodi's are the same in this regard.
Is this normal, any way to change it or that's just how it is?
Thanks.
Posts: 19,982
Joined: May 2009
Reputation:
451
nickr
Retired Team-Kodi Member
Posts: 19,982
Why do you assume US release date?
If I have helped you or increased your knowledge, click the 'thumbs up' button to give thanks :) (People with less than 20 posts won't see the "thumbs up" button.)
Posts: 19,982
Joined: May 2009
Reputation:
451
nickr
Retired Team-Kodi Member
Posts: 19,982
But you said you were using themoviedb?
If I have helped you or increased your knowledge, click the 'thumbs up' button to give thanks :) (People with less than 20 posts won't see the "thumbs up" button.)
Posts: 353
Joined: Dec 2014
Reputation:
6
When I sort by Year (Descending), it's in the order 2014-2013-2012 etc.
Unfortunately the Titles within those years are automatically also sorted as Descending. So when I sort my movies list by Year, it will always start with some 2014 movie whose title starts with a Z or Y. I'd like to be able to have a second sorting order that's independent of the first sorting order. So, that you can choose within Year to sort all movies (all within the same year, that is) by Title (ascending or descending) or Rating (ascending or descending) or whatever.
Perhaps that is possible, but I haven't figured it out yet. It might also make the sort-by-year order for you a bit more helpful, even if it won't sort by month and day.
Posts: 514
Joined: Feb 2012
Reputation:
23
ThemovieDB doesn't pull information from IMDB as far as I know but those that add and maintain movies on that site will probably get most of their information from sites like IMDB. Since IMDB is considered one of the most reliable sources that's understandable.
Back to the original question: The Kodi database only supports a year (like 1964) and has no option for storing month and day. I would welcome if that could be changed but it probably requires major code changes. The best chance is to make a feature request for the next version of Kodi and hope a programmer is willing to invest his/her time in this.
I think all righthtinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.
