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@malosasha: sounds interesting! Would it be possible for you to post an image of how it looks in XBMC whilst browsing the titles?
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On my system, I have many thousand extras for hundreds of TV shows.
I have configured the add-on to say that my extras are in the Remote Location path "l:\extras"
The folder TVShows has a sub-folder for each TV series eg l:\extras\TVShows\Babylon 5 and l:\extras\TVShows\The Avengers etc
Within each of the TV series folders there are a number of files. I haven't created any nfo files etc for any of them so they are basically just a lot of MKV files.
Within XBMC, when I go into the information detail for a series, it does show the button for Extras but when I click on it it brings up the extras for everything all mixed together.
In other words, if I go into the detail and click on Extras from within The Avengers, it shows me jumbled together the extras for every series.
Can you tell me if I am missing a step somewhere?
Thanks
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I changed the Remote Setting to be "L:\" and moved the TVShows folder to the root of L:
The path is now L:\TVShows\Babylon 5\, L:\TVShows\The Avengers\ etc
If I do the "i" on a series, it is still showing all extras for all series in a jumbled order.
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The path for Babylon 5 is:
.....\TV\Babylon 5\Season 00
.....\TV\Babylon 5\Season 01
.....\TV\Babylon 5\Season 02 etc
I will do an experiment containing just a couple of series and report back what it does
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2014-04-02, 20:41
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-02, 20:46 by gmc99.)
Using two different series as there are fewer files.
TV Episodes:
..TV\A Touch of Cloth\Season 01
..TV\A Touch of Cloth\Season 02
..TV\Bones\Season 00
..TV\Bones\Season 01
..TV\Bones\Season 02
Extras
L:\TVShows\A Touch of Cloth\Season 02 (contains 1 file)
L:\TVShows\Bones\Season 02 (contains 3 files)
If I press the i button on either series it shows me all 4 specials (ie the 3 for Bones and 1 for A Touch of Cloth)
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Just to confirm, your tv shows also follow the same file structure? IE I:\TvShows\Babylon 5\ or something similar. If you use Season folders for the tv shows you may need to include that in the file path for the extras also.
Edit: If everything is working properly then all the extras in extras\Tv Shows\Babylon 5 will be displayed with all the videos in Tv Shows\Babylon 5. In your OP you stated that each folder contained a bunch of files, is there just one tv show per folder?
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To answer the question in the edit.
The Babylon 5 extras folder would contain all the files just for Babylon 5. There are about 20 of them.
Each series has a separate folder. The folder name matches the name of the series and is exactly the same as the folder containing the TV series itself.
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You said: If everything is working properly then all the extras in extras\Tv Shows\Babylon 5 will be displayed with all the videos in Tv Shows\Babylon 5
The only extras I get displayed are via the "i" button. They do not appear within the list of episodes for the particular series.
Of more interest though is that if I press the i button and select Extras on ANY series I get the same 4 files displayed so it seems it is not recognising the series at all.