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Can the Library house my odd collection? - dortmunder - 2017-09-26
Hi. My video collection isn't one that can be easily split into Movies and TV Shows – I don't keep many of these for the long term. Instead, I have a 'bits and pieces' collection of videos such as a folder called Music with subfolders for individual artists which contain stuff like youtube downloads and TV appearances. Another folder is called Comedy and has miscellaneous clips that I find amusing with subfolders for particular comedians.
I'm quite happy with my recently set up Kodi system apart from the fact that I can't search anywhere than the 'level' (if that's the right word) I'm on – the search results don't show what's in the subfolders on that level.
I've been reading about the Library where I would expect that you CAN do a proper search but the talk is all of renaming folders in a specific style and adding internet data. All I'd like to do is leave my folder names as they are and be able to do a search of the the entire collection. Is that possible?
Thanks to anyone making a suggestion.
RE: Can the Library house my odd collection? - PatK - 2017-09-26
Kodi search is an interrogation of the library, and the library consists of scraped listings. Without a library, Kodi functions as a multi-media player with a few bells and whistles. Either you're happy with everything the way you have set-up, or for that matter, any of the media players would suffice. Or you finally have come to some epiphany, that change is a good thing and you need a bit of guidance on how to handle this? Video management (wiki)
Kodi loves to manage large collections of media, and the cornerstone of this is the 'Library'.
RE: Can the Library house my odd collection? - jools5000 - 2017-09-26
If its the renaming of filenames is too much of a chore, you can use Filebot to help you with that and save loads of time cleaning up your files
RE: Can the Library house my odd collection? - dortmunder - 2017-09-27
Thanks guys. All things considered, I'm just going to treat Kodi as a player. The ES File Manager which came with my box turns out to be an excellent file-finder.