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Makes sense, gets my vote.
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I'd welcome such an addon as well.
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Damn, I was just thinking this last night as I had to go through quite a few .nfos and change Sci-Fi and Science-Fiction to just regular old Science Fiction to match my genre backgrounds/icons.
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Great idea!
It would be nice also to have genre lists for each language and that genres translations will share id's (action in English and Spanish will have the same id) so they could be merged.
Also Kodi could choose the translated genre name based on the interface language
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I don't get it. If you use a single scraper for everything (like tmdb) there is only one 'Science Fiction' genre
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(2015-02-12, 12:21)takoi Wrote: I don't get it. If you use a single scraper for everything (like tmdb) there is only one 'Science Fiction' genre
It's easy for this to build up over time. Some stuff has NFO files, or an older library scraped some movies with another scraper at one point. For me, as far as I can remember I've only used TMDB and no NFO files, but even I have "sports" and "sports films" in my genre list, which I assumed happened because at one point they renamed it on TMDB.
While it's not that hard to correct things as people go along and prevent it from piling up, I imagine this will still come in handy for the media import work where UPnP libraries can mesh together. For example, a friend might come over and mesh his library with yours, and maybe you guys have different names for "sci-fi". This way it doesn't matter, and any smart playlist or node will keep working like it's supposed to.
In theory.
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Such a function would be really good for music too. For example I have Hip Hop, Hiphop and Hip-Hop as well as Brit Pop and Britpop in my library.
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I wanted to start a custom menu in shednox for genres and ran into the ext problem discribed here. Is there any progress on this?
Jim