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Grouping in one Container is doable via Tags.
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What if we looked at it a different way and allowed for something like tags to be entries in the library? Like a single tag could be flagged to show up in the TV show library as a folder, as if it was a TV show itself. It's really just a shortcut to that specific tag. Then people can choose if they want to filter out the show itself using nodes, or if they want it to appear in both (or multiple) tags and the node itself.
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Or, a tag could become something more abstract and get a "class". For example, a tag having a "tv show set" class would mean, that it contains tv shows and is shown, when "Group tv shows in sets" is checked in Settings - Videos - Library. Also, it would be shown in Videos - TV shows - Sets. Both would replicate the "movies" behavior.
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Yes, that's a very good idea. And maybe at some point, there will be also a possibility of adding "paper cartoons" (like e.g. the comic magazines for the tv show Regular Show). I don't really understand the "border" between tv shows and movies anyway, I have duplicate tags, duplicate actors, etc.
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So, almost 6 months and 2 major versions later (I've used Kodi 14.2 when I wrote that, now we have the alpha version of Kodi 16)...
What's the current status on "sets for TV shows"?
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I guess nobody is interested in making the changes you think should be made (or see post #6).
I've just re-read this thread, and I'm still not sure what you want to change or think needs to be changed - tvshows have tags. What exactly is missing?
Adding a a "Sets" node for TV Shows doesn't seem likely to happen, mostly because it's not really something most people need, is it? If you want to group tvshows, use tags and smartplaylists, which is existing functionality.
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I think the end game is to be able to browse TV shows and not have five entries for Star Trek, but have one "Star Trek" set/folder that then shows all of those shows. This is currently not possible, even though the data to group the shows somehow is there.
The closest thing we have so far is that we can now rename seasons away from "Season 1, season 2, etc". They can now have specific names. So if you have a series of single season shows, then you can easily group them (anime fans rejoice). However, most shows I think people would want to group have multiple seasons. CSI, NCIS, Star Trek, Law and Order, House Hunters, Stargate, etc.
At one point someone was working on TV show sets. I forget who, though.