2017-11-05, 04:48
How can I manage any local videos that are not movies, tv series and music videos? I'll give you examples of files I'm interested to add them to the database, and so far I haven't had much luck:
1) Anything that's related to music, it's not a music video, and it doesn't have any metadata online. I will provide the metadata myself (from file/folder structures), into nfo's, in any way this works (if there is a way): cannibalizing existing fields, adding as tags, etc. How I do that is not important; into what fields, following what strategy - is. I want the categories in brackets to be true categories, browsable, and to be able to drill down through them.
[Documentaries], [Interviews], [MiniConcerts], [Misc]
[Artist] - [YYYY-MM-DD] - [Name]
[Performances]
[Artist] - [YYYY-MM-DD] - [Name] - [Event]
2) [Random videos]
Stuff that can be identified with, say:
\[Person]\[YYYY-MM-DD] - [EVENT]
3) [Home videos]
Stuff that I would have [YYYY-MM-DD] - [Location] - [Name] for.
So how do I make nfo's for those? How do I plug that information into them, as what? In a way that I can separate them later, create nodes for them, smartlists, whatnot? I don't want to pile the files together, I want to be able to sort and drill down through them, as I do with the more commonly used video file types.
And oh yeah, I anticipate there's a secondary funny problem: skin support, 'cause I want to display that metadata, if I can bring it in. Any advise or working idea it's much appreciated.
1) Anything that's related to music, it's not a music video, and it doesn't have any metadata online. I will provide the metadata myself (from file/folder structures), into nfo's, in any way this works (if there is a way): cannibalizing existing fields, adding as tags, etc. How I do that is not important; into what fields, following what strategy - is. I want the categories in brackets to be true categories, browsable, and to be able to drill down through them.
[Documentaries], [Interviews], [MiniConcerts], [Misc]
[Artist] - [YYYY-MM-DD] - [Name]
[Performances]
[Artist] - [YYYY-MM-DD] - [Name] - [Event]
2) [Random videos]
Stuff that can be identified with, say:
\[Person]\[YYYY-MM-DD] - [EVENT]
3) [Home videos]
Stuff that I would have [YYYY-MM-DD] - [Location] - [Name] for.
So how do I make nfo's for those? How do I plug that information into them, as what? In a way that I can separate them later, create nodes for them, smartlists, whatnot? I don't want to pile the files together, I want to be able to sort and drill down through them, as I do with the more commonly used video file types.
And oh yeah, I anticipate there's a secondary funny problem: skin support, 'cause I want to display that metadata, if I can bring it in. Any advise or working idea it's much appreciated.
