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Yes I am Martin - thanks for that. I do get backdrops when hovering over the sets sometimes though. Not sure how.
Thanks.
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No decisions are based on external websites, though obviously consideration of them is taken into account.
The decision is purely based on what is best for XBMC - in this case, primarily number 2 in the list above. It makes no sense (and is impossible) to group movies in sets together in a flattened movie title listing if a movie can belong to more than one set. It is, however, valuable to order things that obviously are part of a set (the lord of the rings being a good example) together (LotR will do this anyway) and in the appropriate order (LotR will not do this).
The hobbit is not part of the LotR trilogy, so would not be part of that set.
If you wanted a group of all Tolkein movies, then use a grouping facility, not the set facility (eg tags/keywords/whatever make sense here).
Cheers,
Jonathan
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I recently installed the official release of Eden and it looks like year is the default sorting for sets now. Which seems logical to me, except that it doesn't seem to look at the <sorttitle> tag in my nfo files and instead just uses the title for the secondary sorting rule.
I mostly use sets to group DVD extras with their respective movies. So I have movie X with two extras, with the year in all three set to 2009. In the extras nfo files, I have a sorttitle tag with a "zz" before the actual title, so that they always should be placed after the main movie, which I want to be the first thing highlighted when I open the set.
Unfortunately, while the sorttitle tags are definitely being used if I change the movie set sorting to title, it doesn't use them when it's set to year. The extras come before the movie, because the actual titles (not the sorttitles with the "zz") come first alphabetically.
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I love The ability of Moviesets and like the sort order of year as default in sets. But what i think would be great is when I sort after year outside my movieset (regular database) all the sets should dissapear and movies inside the set would be sorted with all other movies. So only when i choose to sort my movie db after name the moviesets would show up. Perhaps this is a skinning issue?
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So, I'm kinda confused here guys...I added "The Animatrix" to the Matrix Collection within themoviedb.org's website awhile ago and I recently obtained The Animatrix, but once I added The Animatrix to my collection (XBMC Eden v11.0) it is outside of the Matrix Collection. I kept on removing The Animatrix from within my XBMC library and then update my XBMC library hoping that it will automatically move into the Matrix Collection (this has worked before) but for whatever reason it is not going in there. So first question is, is this issue a syncing issue between my XBMC library and themoviedb.org website? Secondly, is there a way to manually move a movie into a collection?
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You can manually add it to a collection using
Add-on:XWMM (wiki).