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I have largely rewritten Random Trailers Screensaver. It is not ready for alpha testing yet, but it should be within several months. I am very near feature complete, but a lot of testing is required, as well as Python 2/3 compatibility testing. A lot of UI fine tuning is needed. My biggest concern is that I added more features than what most people need as well as too much complexity in setup.

Among the features:

• Designed to be Python 2/3 friendly, but I have yet to test in a Python 3 environment
  
• Gets trailers from the library, TMDB,Apple and local trailers folder.
  
• Falls back to TMDB for missing trailers from local database
  
• Falls back to TMDB for missing movie details from Apple
  
• Supports a local cache for trailers and information downloaded from TMDB
  
• Supports Normalization of audio, mostly to help ghastly recordings originating from youtube
  
• Adds much more Genre filtering capabilities for local, TMDB and Apple
  
• Adds year range and other filtering
  
• Has maximum time limit for trailer, to address very long clips or full movies masquerading as trailers
  
• Runs as a screensaver as well as a plugin
  
• Back-end is a separate long-running service, reducing startup time and high startup cost
  

Other features, which I am experimenting with, but which may not make the final product include:

• User ability to add current trailer to a  "playlist" mostly to flag movies that they would like to watch, or note for any reason
  
• Some statistics
  
• Reports of movies without trailers, actor and  genre lists
  

Future features under consideration:

• Restore support for RottonTomatoes
  
• Add support for other trailer sites
  
• The ability to have trailers play in some theme:
  • Movies similar to recently played movies (actor/genre/age)
    
  • Play trailers in clusters of similar movies (genres, actors, etc.)
    
  • This require lots of experimentation
    
• Select trailers from a playlist