2013-07-30, 17:30
I recently installed XBMC, and am loving it - many thanks to all the developers who have put such a great product together!
I have everything configured and working pretty much as I'd expect it, with one issue: I have quite a few favorites, and would like the ability to organize them (beyond just which favorites appear above others.)
My mother-in-law watches my daughter while my wife and I work. We would like her to be able to use XBMC to play favorites that are specific to my daughter. But my mother-in-law gets easily frustrated with technology, and if she has to navigate too many directories, or scroll through too many options in a list, she's likely to just not use it. So ideally, I'd like to set up a folder (either natively, through an addon, or .xml editing) titled "<daughter's> Favorites" that has a list of all the favorites we've created for her. Then (ideally) my mother-in-law can select the folder, and immediately jump to whatever favorite she wants to watch at the time, rather than slogging through a ton of favorites that aren't of interest to my daughter.
It looks like profiles might be one way to ensure that the favorites list isn't too big and are all appropriate for my daughter. But that seems like overkill, and would complicate things for my mother-in-law if we forgot to switch to my daughter's profile before leaving for work in the morning.
Is there an addon (or some native way) to organize favorites into subfolders?
(For further explanation, I thought the following example might help to identify what sort of folder structure I'm looking for)
Favorites
Thanks for your help!
I have everything configured and working pretty much as I'd expect it, with one issue: I have quite a few favorites, and would like the ability to organize them (beyond just which favorites appear above others.)
My mother-in-law watches my daughter while my wife and I work. We would like her to be able to use XBMC to play favorites that are specific to my daughter. But my mother-in-law gets easily frustrated with technology, and if she has to navigate too many directories, or scroll through too many options in a list, she's likely to just not use it. So ideally, I'd like to set up a folder (either natively, through an addon, or .xml editing) titled "<daughter's> Favorites" that has a list of all the favorites we've created for her. Then (ideally) my mother-in-law can select the folder, and immediately jump to whatever favorite she wants to watch at the time, rather than slogging through a ton of favorites that aren't of interest to my daughter.
It looks like profiles might be one way to ensure that the favorites list isn't too big and are all appropriate for my daughter. But that seems like overkill, and would complicate things for my mother-in-law if we forgot to switch to my daughter's profile before leaving for work in the morning.
Is there an addon (or some native way) to organize favorites into subfolders?
(For further explanation, I thought the following example might help to identify what sort of folder structure I'm looking for)
Favorites
- Dad
- PBS
- Youtube
- PBS
- Mom
- America's Test Kitchen
- Food Network
- America's Test Kitchen
- Daughter
- Angelina Ballerina
- Sesame Street
- Super Why
- Angelina Ballerina
Thanks for your help!