2016-02-28, 09:43
Hello.
(I ask my question beforehand, so that you can skip the explaination below, if it does not apply to you)
Can we please have a Flag that allows us to choose to skip the default viewing mode and start directory based by default?
That's it, now the story behind this request. Over the years I collected a fairly huge amount of series. Most of it is scrapeable, but some is to old or to exotic to be labeled by a scrapper. Actually I have almost 200 directories in my series directory that are unscrapeable.
Now the problem: Whenever I start Kodi and select 'series', I end in the series directory, but only with scraping credentials. That means, I don't see the unscrapeable content (using banner view).
To circumvent this I then move to the beginning of that list and press the 'up' button, again 'up'button' and end in the listbox that has the 'files' option in it. I select this and go back to the series-directory from there.
_Then_ is the first time I see the complete list of series-directories there. The unscraped directories are then labeled with a default folder icon, which is sufficient at this point!
To get over this situation I'd put a default thumbnail into these directories, which makes the system think, it belongs in the 'scraped list'. So next Time I opended kodi I would see this serie eventually.
However, it has some drawbacks. First of all it is an insane amount of stupid work to label all those unscrapeable dirs with a dummy thumbnail to circumvent that behaviour. But more important, whenever you rebuild the database, they're gone (which is technically correct). So same procedure all over again.
I have tried almost any option that has the faintest connection to this topic, but I have not found a solution and that led me here. Is there any help in sight? Thanks in advance.
Dizman
(I ask my question beforehand, so that you can skip the explaination below, if it does not apply to you)
Can we please have a Flag that allows us to choose to skip the default viewing mode and start directory based by default?
That's it, now the story behind this request. Over the years I collected a fairly huge amount of series. Most of it is scrapeable, but some is to old or to exotic to be labeled by a scrapper. Actually I have almost 200 directories in my series directory that are unscrapeable.
Now the problem: Whenever I start Kodi and select 'series', I end in the series directory, but only with scraping credentials. That means, I don't see the unscrapeable content (using banner view).
To circumvent this I then move to the beginning of that list and press the 'up' button, again 'up'button' and end in the listbox that has the 'files' option in it. I select this and go back to the series-directory from there.
_Then_ is the first time I see the complete list of series-directories there. The unscraped directories are then labeled with a default folder icon, which is sufficient at this point!
To get over this situation I'd put a default thumbnail into these directories, which makes the system think, it belongs in the 'scraped list'. So next Time I opended kodi I would see this serie eventually.
However, it has some drawbacks. First of all it is an insane amount of stupid work to label all those unscrapeable dirs with a dummy thumbnail to circumvent that behaviour. But more important, whenever you rebuild the database, they're gone (which is technically correct). So same procedure all over again.
I have tried almost any option that has the faintest connection to this topic, but I have not found a solution and that led me here. Is there any help in sight? Thanks in advance.
Dizman
