[Longtime Collector]

Is it possible to add more actors to what is scrapped from TheMovieDB? I used the following:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Movie>
    <actor>
        <name>Gipper</name>
        <role>TestActor</role>
        <order>0</order>
        <thumb>smb://KODI-PC/K/Movies/Gipper.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
</Movie>
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/389

...and I only ended up with Gipper. I really would like to do this using NFO's and not manual entry.

Any help appreciated.

MC

[Karellen]

Yes, it is possible. But my understanding is that the nfo overwrites the existing entry so I don't think you can use an nfo to append additional information. Have to be honest, I have never thought about that possibility.

Your easiest solution would be to use one of the many nfo programs available. This is one I use... https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=142723

You can scrape the movie, just as Kodi does, then manually add additional actors. Save the nfo file and refresh the movie from within Kodi.

[Longtime Collector]

Thanks for the response but doing it your way 3,000 times does not seem like a lot of fun.

I'm thinking of bastardizing the 1st and last dozen Actors to input my Similar Movies. So when the user opens an information view on a movie the 1st slot in the actor horizontal scrolling list will contain an icon that drops down all similar movies.

It works really nice, though I haven't figured out how to do it on a batch basis where I don't wipe out the actual Actors.

Hence my preference for an .NFO approach.

MC

Now if there were a way to add a Movie-SimilarMovie linkage table outside of Kodi