[sfh1975]

Hi all
Please bear with me as its my first post and I am not sure where exactly to ask this question
Many times I come across movie lists created on the internet by e.g. imdb users or other random people (or organisations).
Is there anyway to transfer such a list (as a txt or any other format file) to kodi where kodi can tell me which movies from the list I have already watched or which of the movies in the list are missing altogether from my library?
I know tags may serve the purpose but all of that would be manually adding tags to individual movies, which is not very efficient if one wants to create a list of "100 great movies", etc.
Is there an add on for that? I am comfortable with trying advanced, command line settings if you are wondering
Many thanks in advance.

[zerocool_ie]

smart_playlists (wiki) are what I use for making these lists.
It was a bit of a pain in the a$$ to create these lists in the beginning, but now I just add the latest winner every year.
The lists are not perfect as some movies have the same names and appear on the lists when I don't want them to, but they are quite accurate.

Excel and Notepad++ are a great help for manipulating text lists from websites.

Here are some to get you started

Academy Award for Best Actor Winners
http://pastebin.com/6iXZdZg7

Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
http://pastebin.com/Ef743KSq

Academy Award for Best Director Winners
http://pastebin.com/dZdv8XUj

Academy Award for Best Picture Winners
http://pastebin.com/e1a8hJJv

IMDB Top 250 (generated automatically from your library data)
http://pastebin.com/YHYdSBDA

Highest Grossing of the year
http://pastebin.com/VmQatyJu

MTV Best Movie
http://pastebin.com/NLqLtv7R

[sfh1975]

Thanks a lot.
This gives me some idea about how to approach it but unfortunately it doesn't serve the purpose directly, as I will have to create my own lists which is a long process as you mentioned.
I was looking at a more automated approach instead, as there are quite a few sources that I want to follow, and not just imdb.
In any case, thanks again. I might give it a try
Cheers.

[scott967]

If your movie filename is the same as the movie title, and your library is arranged movies/moviename/moviename.mkv for example, I think you could open the list in an editor with regex find/replace support such as Notepad++ and you could convert the movie list into a "dumb" .m3u8 playlist.

scott s.
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[sfh1975]

Thanks Scott
Looks like there's a lot of manual work to be done. Would be much easier if there's a way to create an xml, by just feeding movie titles to it.
Still searching...
Thanks in any case.