(2019-08-31, 00:10)Karellen Wrote: (2019-08-30, 15:24)WickyKD Wrote: Is this possible or partially possible ?
No.
As darwindesign stated, if you are constantly setting up sources, then you are doing something wrong. I have 6 movie sources and they were setup when I installed Kodi. It is a once off process and once setup, never needs to be touched again. Can you explain your workflow that requires the constant need to setup new Sources?
Thanks for the response.
Let my clarify my current use case.
I use Kodi to manage the video media that I have have purchased over the years (DVD, Blu-Ray etc..) as well as old family videos that I have transferred to mp4 and custom home made DVD's.
I do not use Kodi for online TV streaming, games, Music CD's other apps etc..
I am a PCH / YAMJ user transitioning to Kodi and currenlty comparing using Kodi 18.3 (OSMC) with Raspberry Pi3 vs the Vero+ device. (Also have Pi4 coming in the post.)
I am using the Aeon NOX Silvo skin and have managed to get a look and feel I like and like all my meta data stored local with the media.
However, you could say I am in "development" to get the different types of media (TV Series / Music, Videos etc ..) looking how I want them.
I use TinyMediaManager (TMM) to manage the media scaping and the creation of NFO's for my collection on my Windows DAW.
TMM accesses a NAS share holding the media and my Kodi device sources accessing the same NAS share.
I am happy with formation of the NFO's and the ability to customise the NFO's with info and group titles into custom collections etc...
In my current phase, I am in processing chunks of my collection (100+) at a time and restructuring the directories as appropriate for the Kodi setup.
However, to get each 100+ exactly right takes a few iterations.
I perform the below procedure fairly regularly so that I just rescan the selected media shares (but leave the Kodi sources, views and other settings in tact)
This is to test bulk changes to the layout and customised NFO. (For changes to a small number of titles I use the Refresh feature of the specific title)
1) Use putty to login as osmc and run a script.
This script basically contains the following commands:
sudo systemctl stop mediacenter
cd ~/.kodi/userdata/Database
mv MyVideos116.db MyVideos116.db.old
sudo systemctl start mediacenter
2) From Kodi, I use the Indigo Addon to delete the Kodi cache and thumbnails
3) From Kodi, I go the source and perform the Set Content to re-read media, artwork and NFOs and rhen review the result.
Thus the ability to be able to have the Local Information Scraper as the default Movie / TV Series scraper, along with Set Content default would be useful as I will never scrape using the Kodi MovieDB scrapers etc...
Once I have fully transitioned I will hopefully have stability and will consolidate and rescan the shares at the end and have a long period of stability.
However, I will probably always use a "development" instance of Kodi to play with and prepare changes / new media before applying to my "Production" instance.
Using this approach also means I am in control of my metadata and can easily manage it.
I hope the above gives some insight to my situation / use case.
Any comments / advice welcome.
Regards
Wicky