[GodzillaXP]

It would be great to use the "imdb-id"-field (and/or other scraper-IDs) to generate smart playlists.

This would make it possible to create dynamic/smart playlist for everyone no matter what language you use.

See my "Award Nominees-Playlist" for example. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=118481

(old trac http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12664)

[GodzillaXP]

Nobody interessted in this topic?

I think this would be a really big advantage.

[Ned Scott]

I suppose it would be possible to scrape a page and then use python to generate a playlist based on that. I just have absolutely no idea how that would actually be done :)

[GodzillaXP]

I already wrote a script (shell) to scrape the movie-titles and generate a playlist.

The problem is that the smart-playlist doesn_t work very well, because the movie-titles from imdb.com and my german titles don't macht 100%.
Even I tried to use the german imdb-titles, but XBMC sometimes uses an alternative german title.

To generate a 100% working smart-playlist it would be necessary to use the IDs of the movies.
Then you could also share the playlists with others, who might use different languages.

[Ned Scott]

Ah, I see what you're saying now.

[GodzillaXP]

It can't be that hard to add this one field to smartplaylists.

Unfortunately, I have no experience in developing.
But I think you could just add a few lines of code to to the source (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...ayList.cpp) and create a patch.

Maybe this field also works for TMDB-IDs and other scraper-sites.



I guess I need to use a work-around for this award-season.

[Montellese]

It's not that hard but we are in feature freeze and adding a new field to smartplaylists is a feature. Therefore we have to wait until Frodo final has been released.

[GodzillaXP]

That's an answer I can live with.

[tesona1977]

did this change made it into gotham?

[da-anda]

no, because nobody popped it up in time

[MacGyver]

I tried.

The addition of an ID field to smartplaylist's rule field