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First off, I have to say I love XBMC I've been a proud user since the early xbox days... thank you all!

What is the best way to manage 2 different categories of Movies. IE. Kids Movies Vs Normal Movies?

I currently have a large library of videos (Moves/TVshows) that managed wonderfully with XBMC's library but my life has changed and now I find myself also building a massive collection of Kids movies. I don't want to have both movies show in a massive library list but I'd still like to have the kids movies in a library format(to see movie information instead of just file names from video view). I'd almost like a separate library for just the kids movies because I have about 700 titles (moves/tv shows).

The categories in library mode don't seem to separate the movies very well and xbmc doesn't give me any place to classify or change a movies information to help me sort it.

Is anyone else out there managing 2 different types of movie type and keeping them completely separate while also using the full library features on both? Let me know please and thank you!

Hi,

I think your best bet is to set up two profiles, one for the kids and one for you. That way you can have separate library's for each.

cheers

I've always avoided multiple profiles but I think its time to give it a shot.

I use Ember Media Manager to manage all my movies. I let each movie have several dfferent genres like Children, animation, Family, Wife and so on. Then i have created smart playlists i XBMC like "Animated childrenmovies" where i sorted out the movies with genre Children AND Animation NOT Adult(No not porn), i think you get the point.

After i have created the playlist i mark them and add them as a "Favorite" where the kids kan reach them. Not perfect but it works

Ilbrutto, Thank you very much. I love Ember... very useful tool. Thank you.