2018-11-09, 16:40
I recently setup Kodi (v17) and setup/scanned my six media drives with over 1000 movie .iso files. Overall, I'm fairly happy with the program (even with persistent and on-going problems getting my MCE remote to work). But I have some questions/comments:
0) There are a handful of duplicates. How do I find out the path of the files to see if they're really duplicates (located on different shares), or if it's an issue with Kodi? I'm a MSSQL developer at work, so I have no resistence to cruising through the database (see item #3 below).
1) Some of the files weren't found on TheMovieDB during the update. This also means they don't show up on my list of movies (unless I go through settings to look for .iso files). How can I assign them names and have them be included in my video list? I'm guessing I have to make direct database entries.
2) Is there an add-on available that lets you manage the files that were not successfully scraped? Scrolling through a list of 1000+ files in settings looking for .iso files is inconvenient.
3) I went looking for the Kodi database, but could not find it. Where is it located?
4) Is there a way to add a "Christmas" genre, preferably through the database? Amusingly, that genre exists for music, but not for TV shows or videos (when I say "amusingly", it's because my wife got a chuckle out of it - of course, she doesn't have to fix it).
5) There was no notification that some of the files were not scraped properly. I only found out when I went to watch a movie that wasn't in the list, despite knowing for a fact that the file existed on the server.
0) There are a handful of duplicates. How do I find out the path of the files to see if they're really duplicates (located on different shares), or if it's an issue with Kodi? I'm a MSSQL developer at work, so I have no resistence to cruising through the database (see item #3 below).
1) Some of the files weren't found on TheMovieDB during the update. This also means they don't show up on my list of movies (unless I go through settings to look for .iso files). How can I assign them names and have them be included in my video list? I'm guessing I have to make direct database entries.
2) Is there an add-on available that lets you manage the files that were not successfully scraped? Scrolling through a list of 1000+ files in settings looking for .iso files is inconvenient.
3) I went looking for the Kodi database, but could not find it. Where is it located?
4) Is there a way to add a "Christmas" genre, preferably through the database? Amusingly, that genre exists for music, but not for TV shows or videos (when I say "amusingly", it's because my wife got a chuckle out of it - of course, she doesn't have to fix it).
5) There was no notification that some of the files were not scraped properly. I only found out when I went to watch a movie that wasn't in the list, despite knowing for a fact that the file existed on the server.
I also had some files that did not have a space or underscore between words in the title. Another problem was having words that didn't match the word that was expected (I used "Mister" instead of "Mr" in one movie). Other videos simply are not in the movie DB or the TV DB.