2015-10-27, 20:19
A friend and myself both have large DVD collections and ,as well as a digital manager, would like to use Kodi as a media manager. I have created media-stub files for all our physical DVD/Blurays and all works well. However we have some additional personal information which is not recorded in the Kodi database (e.g. purchase-date, purchase-price) which we would also like to store so we can produce HTML or text listings of our collections with this info alongside info extracted from the Kodi database.
I have tried extending media stubs to include <purchaseprice> and <purchasedate> and all seems good. Kodi appears to ignore this (but does display the <title> and <message> fields correctly) and the data is available to my report generating program by locating the correct stub via the links in the Kodi database.
My concern is that extending media-stubs like this will possibly break things in the future if Kodi itself uses more fields in media-stubs. I guess I can have something like <$USER-purchaseprice> in my media stubs but I'm worried that at some future point media-stub processing withing Kodi may become stricter and the code will barf at fields that Kodi itself doessn't recognise. Can I put in a feature request that media-stubs allow user defined info which Kodi ignores. Perhaps this is already the intention but I can't find it explicitly stated anywhere.
I have tried extending media stubs to include <purchaseprice> and <purchasedate> and all seems good. Kodi appears to ignore this (but does display the <title> and <message> fields correctly) and the data is available to my report generating program by locating the correct stub via the links in the Kodi database.
My concern is that extending media-stubs like this will possibly break things in the future if Kodi itself uses more fields in media-stubs. I guess I can have something like <$USER-purchaseprice> in my media stubs but I'm worried that at some future point media-stub processing withing Kodi may become stricter and the code will barf at fields that Kodi itself doessn't recognise. Can I put in a feature request that media-stubs allow user defined info which Kodi ignores. Perhaps this is already the intention but I can't find it explicitly stated anywhere.