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I want to create a view on the home screen that recommends movies based on what you previously watched. I understand there is no script for it but wanted to know if there is a possible way/hack to have something similar.
Say you watched Goodfellas, xbmc would recommend other movies in your library based on the genre of that film.
anything like that at all possible?
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Sure it's possible... you could write a script which recommends based on genre, actors, director or whatever.
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2012-09-19, 01:14
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-19, 01:15 by `Black.)
Yes, could work... only thing we have to think of is how the recommendations should be made:
1. Genre, if more then 5 or 10 found, recommend those which have
2. the same actors and/or same director
3. the same year +- 5 (or are in the same decade)
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Usually movies have multiple genres so that would limit it a bit. Also randomize the result.
Will see how hat works out tomorrow
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Yes, you're right. You would need to split the genre into a list and then you could check which other movies have the most similar or maybe even same genre. But I don't know how much that would slow down the process.
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How will this affect the in progress movies? Will they be mixed in with the recommended ones?
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I would guess they'd just use another set of info labels and additional run option.
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Wouldn't it be better to split it off into a separate script? Overcomplicating things by adding features not related to the core function of the script can lead to hassles further down the road.
If it's a matter of having to reuse code, perhaps a core script that other scripts share could be used and branch off the differentiating features into their own dependent script would suffice - similar to how some of the video addons work.
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2012-09-19, 13:12
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-19, 13:13 by krish_2k4.)
well glad this is being looked into!
thought it was always a feature worth having similar to the recommended features on itunes/amazon/netflix.