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The profile keymaps subfolder bug has been fixed in Camelot beta 2. Corrected the text in the first post to reflect that.
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Thanks sho,
I finally managed to solve it and now of course I can have separated music libraries. The problem seems to be that when I created the profile it copied the media sources. I then modified the media source in the profile to point to another directory (kept the same name). After that, no albums in that media source where imported. However, I deleted the source, created a new one and all is working fine now.
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2010-12-20, 23:06
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-20, 23:11 by vinistois.)
What do you use to separate your kids shows & movies (or any category you want separate) from the rest?
I use a kids profile, and have a 'swap profile' button mapped on my remote. Works, but lacks in W.A.F.
problems:
- it takes about 20 seconds or so to do the switch.
- often/randomly crashes that require restarting xbmc while loading other profile
- general annoyance of having to switch profiles several times per day
- having 2 sets of settings to tweak
My wife complains "why does it have to be separate, why can't it just say 'KIDS' on the home screen?
Many skins these days let you change home screen items and sub-items.
I've played around with it, but still can't seem to get it right. You can create playlists and have shortcuts to them, but after playing around with it - it just wasn't working. I still want to have the kids movies shown in a nice library view.
To those of you that separate media this way, what skin do you use, how well does it work, and how much work was it to set up?
What I would really like is on home screen, under movies, a sub menu "KIDS MOVIES" and under tv shows a submenu "KIDS TV". Kids media is simply stored into a 'KIDS' folder on the HDD. I do not, obviously, want this folder added to my main movies and tv library.
Cheers!
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2010-12-21, 01:23
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-21, 02:46 by pecinko.)
What you're wanting is not possible at the moment, AFAIK. Custom categories are planned for new library.
So you can either use profiles or smart playlists. You can combine them too.
However I stopped using them a while ago for the reasons similar to yours and switched to files mode.
EDIT: You could also use 3rd party media manager and go through custom genres.
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hmm, its too bad. It seems like everyone has something they want to separate, whether its stand-up, sports, kids, anime, etc.
For now I am switching to playlists, the Night skin makes it fairly easy to add to the home menu as submenus of movies and shows. The only downside now is that I can't view that stuff in library views, file view only. Otherwise I have to add it to the library and then it shows up in the regular 'movies' section.
Good enough for now, thanks!