I guess the first question is, is this even possible? Would it be skin specific? Just need an addon? What I'd like to do is, from within Kodi, select something in the Context menu and append additional genre's to a series or movie. Say appending 'Christmas' to all Christmas movies so that I can use a smart playlist to locate all Christmas movies or series. Or 'Anime'? Though anime I can already do by it's folder location, since I keep anime seperate from live action television. Or maybe adding specific topics like if I wanted to mark specific documentaries in a 'Nostalgia' genre. Stuff like that.
Obviously these are genres that'd be 'noise' if entered into TheTVDB or IMDB and often not even allowed per their rules, but would be useful for an individual users needs.
Is this something Kodi can even do now? I know I could add my own NFO files but that's a pretty ugly solution. Is there just an addon I don't know about? Or can specific skins do this?
Sounds like you mean "Tags", not genre.
Yes you can do what you want using Tags. No add-on needed.
Assuming Estuary skin,
go to Videos>Movies (or tv shows).
In the category list you should see "Tags".
Select it
You have the option to create New tag.
Create a tag named Christmas
Highlight it and call up the Context Menu
Select Manage
Select Add Movies.
I was going to direct you to the wiki page, but it is a bit out of date... another one to be update.
http://kodi.wiki/view/Video_library_tags
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(2017-10-12, 23:24)PatK Wrote: [ -> ]Check out this add-on
Manage tags for the selected item from the context menu
https://kodi.tv/addon/context-menus/managetags
Hrm, this is interesting but it doesn't seem to work right. I'm unsure if it's because I'm running 18 Alpha or because I'm using Confluence. But it just errors out when I attempt to use it. :/
Quote: I'm unsure if it's because I'm running 18 Alpha or because I'm using Confluence.
Working here with Kodi 18 nightly using the skin Transparency! and just tried it with Estuary and found it working well.
Perhaps some help in the 'Tag' thread would cast a bit of light on this. Throw up a proper debug log with tags attempt
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=310752
(2017-10-15, 18:18)PatK Wrote: [ -> ]Quote: I'm unsure if it's because I'm running 18 Alpha or because I'm using Confluence.
Working here with Kodi 18 nightly using the skin Transparency! and just tried it with Estuary and found it working well.
Perhaps some help in the 'Tag' thread would cast a bit of light on this. Throw up a proper debug log with tags attempt https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=310752
Found the issue. Since my system had no tags created yet, it caused ManageTags to crash. Once I created at least one tag, it was fine.
Ah, that's disappointing. I can only tag TV Series but not individual eps. My hopes of being able to flag any 'Christmas Movie or Episode' to build a playlist of Christmas stuff, or other genre specific eps, hit's a wall there. Obviously tagging a whole series offers little utility for my need.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=148204
Looks like I'm not the first person with the same idea in the last 5 years.
It comes down to Movies not being handled in the same fashion as TV series and episodes. (that's why we keep the sources separately). In your case Tags (with the add-on) makes an easy movie tag playlist on the fly. For individual TV episodes, I would treat that as a favourite using
Add-on:Super Favourites (wiki) in some category like Christmas TV, then make that a favouirte and link from there? I never use a single solution, then I have many options.