2019-02-14, 04:53
(2019-02-12, 16:47)cartman.dos Wrote:(2019-02-12, 13:58)cscott1 Wrote:use 'tag' as a rule and 'sort' as whatever you want (random?) in smartplaylists...I agree with you that it is the best way it just needs a lot of maintenance.(2019-02-12, 05:06)cartman.dos Wrote: You can add/edit genres but it won't be different than using tags...The question is how to narrow down the condition so that it pulls what you want, and then that it auto-maintains it....Im going to play around with this tag generator you mentioned but genera's and playlists just didn't cut it for me things are entirely left out of widgets and lots of items will be in multiple widgets as well. for example lots of movies are both Action / Adventure I want Mission Impossible to be in the Action widget and want Indiana Jones to be in Adventure if you use genera's then both will be listed in each category a bit repetitive if you have over a 1000 movies and 500 tv shows. Custom tags has been the only way I figured out how to make sure the media is exactly what I want it to be in the widget. The only thing that bothers me my OCD speaking here is that the items listed in the tags are listed in the order in which you scanned them into your library. I would like them to be listed in alphabetical order does anyone know how I can set this up?
If you're playing from local source, then I guess it would work to set a smartplaylist with rule 'path' contains '<name-of-folder-name-for-nature>', or similar. just make sure its unique so that other unwanted media won't fulfill the condition.
For stand-up (and imdb,trak lists) you can use tag-generator as I mentioned earlier.
it's a great tool that works as a service and tags video with 'standup', so you won't need to add tags manually.
https://github.com/wellspokenman/tag-generator
Now, if you're organizing netflix, then millions are consuming your library. btw, even the 'recommendations' aren't made on-demand as far as i know, they have groups of reccomendation profiles and then they put you in a certain group based on watched list (reducing calculation resources and running time)...
Now if you're gonna do this on an individual base, a lot of work....
ps - tag generator can tag based on lists from trakt and imdb. so it is possible to do it once on there and then all tags can be rewritten with it...
theoretically, you can add stuff in advance so that when they're added to library it will tag them as well. haven't test it myself beyond 'standup' and once tested against a random imdb list i found online...
Finally got around to trying this and sure enough it works flawlessly. When making the playlists order Random it shows up not only random but in a different order each time so it gives it a dynamic feel even more like Netflix. Thanks for that can't wait to plug it into the new update.
