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I'm familiar with creating moviesets, however I've run across a problem getting the preferred order I want for the Marvel Cinematic Universe set I'm creating. Briefly I want to set as follows
1 Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
2 Iron Man (2008)
3 Iron Man 2 (2010)
4 Thor (2011)
5 The Incredible Hulk (2008)
6 Avengers Assemble (2012)
7 Iron Man 3 (2013)
8 Thor 2: The Dark World (2013)
9 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
10 Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
11 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
12 Ant-Man (2015)
13 Captain America: Civil War (2016) Not yet set
14 Dr. Strange (2016) Not yet set
All movies were scraped and put into the correct set with EMM. I've then manually added an additional field <sorttitle></sorttitle> under the <set>Marvel Cinemativ Universe</set> tag in the nfo file with the movies numbered the way I want them. I've refreshed all the movies in Kodi and they are all in the correct set but will not display in the correct order. They are mostly correct but for some reason Guardians of the Galaxy <sorttitle>10</sorttitle> is displaying after Avengers: Age of Ultron <sorttitle>11</sorttitle> and Ant-Man <sorttitle>12</sorttitle>
I thought that maybe the <sorttitle></sorttitle> tag with a 0 in it might be a problem so I skipped 10 and renumbered to 11, 12 and 13 respectively for these three movies but Guardians of the Galaxy stays obstinately at the bottom of the list.
Anybody got any ideas on this?
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2016-05-25, 19:40
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-25, 19:42 by Powerhouse.)
Instead of EMM, use MediaElch. It's super easy to create Moviesets, and name them, and order them however you like.
I have something similar, setup using MediaElch, my set is named Marvel's Superheroes. Then under Sort, I just put Marvel's Superheroes 01 (for Iron Man in my case), and end with Marvel's Superheroes 12 (Ant-Man). Of course, since you can name them, you can sort them however you like.
Oh, and another cool feature of MediaElch, you can also create your own Genre's. So for the above, I created a Superheroes Genre. So I can search under Genre's and bring up all the Superheroes movies (both Marvel and DC). I've also created Genre's for Martial Arts, Anime, and Cartoons.
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Just to update on this, I was running an old version of Kodi, I've now upgraded to the latest stable version Jarvis 16.1 and the problem has resolved itself. And all my library settings still work as before which is always a bonus.
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(This post was last modified: 2018-06-29, 21:39 by K0D1User1138.)
I am trying to figure out how to get the proper MCU (and other lists) sorted properly. I've not used movie sets but have flagged all MCU movies with a custom tag that will pull them together via a smart playlist but will not order them properly. The closest I can do is by year but when multiple movies have the same release year it then sorts movies with the same year alphabetically. This means the 'Captain America: The First avenger' is listed BEFORE "Thor" even though it should be listed after, by release and proper MCU order.
Is there a sub-sorting method within the <set> </set> field that the wiki doesn't explain well? I do not mean the movie's sorttitle as that will affect where these movies sort to in the main library and for that I want all Iron Man movies under I and all Thor movies under T, etc.
I tried to create my own <mcu>###</mcu> field in the .nfo hoping I could pull the numerical value for sequencing the way <top250> works but that did not seem to do anything proper.
Is there another method of sorting that still eludes me here?
Cheers!
Just wanted to add that in 2011 2 films get out of order - Captain America: The First Avenger ends up before Thor. In 2015 Ant-Man ends up before Avengers: Age of Ultron. This year 3 films will be out of order - Ant-Man and The Wasp will be before Avengers: Infinity War and both will be before Black Panther. That's really starting to get the MCU out of order without another sorting solution that is not dependent on sorttitle.
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Is there not a way for Kodi to be able to read additional info from the database or movie .nfo? Like in my example I created a new piece of info designed to mimic the top250 info. If there was a way to add and have Kodi recognize something like this that would solve the issue. Maybe related to movie sets for those who use sets. Like a sortorder within the set tags that's simply a number like the top250 is a number.
Kodi seems quite capable of doing many awesome things. Being able to create a sorting order for MCU films (and DCEU, James Bond, etc) should be within it's means and make it just that much better!
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I didn't think my mcu field would work but figured why not give it a shot. Can't hurt any.
How does the top250 work? Was that something that was built into Kodi? Could another field like say sortnumber be created that would let you use alpha-numeric and then you can make your own sorts based off that?
I saw where someone had "hijacked" the mpaa field to do something of Academy Awards. Kodi users seem pretty ingenious at figuring this sort of thing out. Seems a little strange with the popularity of the MCU and other series that there isn't an option to get a proper sort order aside from overriding the main title sort order.
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I understood what the top250 was for. I meant how does Kodi know what to do with it. I'm guessing it's something hard coded into the program itself? That's why my experiment didn't yield favorable results.
I don't recall the exact thread but I know it was about adding Academy Awards to a skin and started with using the mpaa field. I just used it as an example of how people are finding ways to make Kodi even better. I don't want to give up my mpaa ratings though.
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I appreciate the ideas. For now I'm living with the limitations Kodi has. Making a separate source for just MCU seems more like a hack than a solution that would benefit everyone and that is ultimately what I'd like to discover.
I have used smart playlists, in fact I use a ton of them, but unfortunately Kodi sometimes has issues using the sort parameters of the playlist itself and Kodi is not able to read a playlist as a list of specified items, the movie titles in a row for example, and reproduce the order as entered into the playlist the way a playlist on an ipod would work. Something doesn't communicate between the two. I think that would be the best way to get a true sorted order to work but I don't know anything about coding into Kodi the processes required. That's for those with far more knowledge and skill than I have. So for now I'm just brainstorming ideas and noticed there was already a MCU related thread so I can't be the only one looking for a solution.
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You guys are killing me. Fine, don't use MediaElch to make this easy. And to do the same thing that MediaElch does, but by manually hand coding each NFO, you can do this...
"Please NOTE, this isn't the complete NFO file, just examples..."
<title>Iron Man</title>
<originaltitle>Iron Man</originaltitle>
<rating>7.2</rating>
<votes>5379</votes>
<top250>0</top250>
<year>2008</year>
<set>Marvel Superheroes Collection</set>
<sorttitle>Marvel Superheroes 02</sorttitle>
<title>Iron Man 2</title>
<originaltitle>Iron Man 2</originaltitle>
<rating>6.6</rating>
<votes>4423</votes>
<top250>0</top250>
<year>2010</year>
<set>Marvel Superheroes Collection</set>
<sorttitle>Marvel Superheroes 03</sorttitle>
So the parts you are looking to add to your NFO files will be the "Set", and "Sorttitle".
Just add those 2 lines to your NFO files, and Refresh your Kodi Library. Done.