AaronD Wrote:What do you gain? You still need to define the paths anyway, and defining the content types only adds a few seconds. Also it's only a "one time" operation per source and doen't generally change for the lifetime of the XBMC installation (or very infrequently anyway.)
You gain the following:
1) No longer necessary to dedicate a folder to Movies, a folder to TV a folder to Music... you can have Mixed Folders, and only need to define ONE root folder/server for all your media.
2) If you deploy multiple XBMC installations, as I do.... 8 of them in my instance, I only need to do this once. So it's scalable
3) If you don't HAVE to reconfigure it multiple times, they why should you? if there's a way to avoid that, I'm all for it (of course it's a cost to develop/benefit judgment)
4) In my view it's a natural continuation of the logic that was used to NFO files for media.
5) It comes into it's own much more once the concept of being able to move your media around is fully supported... rearrange the folders as you please and the NFO will stay with it.
6) There's still a LOT of newbies who forget to set the content type of folders. It's true that they could forget to create and NFO too, but at least 3rd party tools can autocreate it.
You're right about in a single instance... it's not going to offer very much... since it does only take a few seconds to choose a content type for a source, but if you have a lot of sources, a fair number of installations and you move your data around a lot, there's a benefit to be had.
I suppose it's just a matter of opinion as to how much it's worth to any given individual... maybe I'm in the weird minority ;-)