2024-02-10, 22:46
First of all, I would like to say thanks to all involved in the development of this new feature. I admire your work, since it really adds a lot to the Kodi media experience. Congratulations!
I have tested the latest available Omega version (2024-Feb-09) and I’ve seen that even it’s still a WIP, everything works reasonably well. However, I would like to make some suggestions, from an user’s standpoint, not for Omega, since I know there's no time left, but for future Kodi versions.
It’s great to see how now Kodi adds automatically the videos under the folder ‘extras’ to the extras of that movie. I can’t help thinking that something similar could be done if Kodi could add automatically the movie versions located in a folder named ‘versions’ under the main movie folder. Why? As an user wanting to test this feature, I wondered where would be best to put my movie versions. The wiki says: “As this is a Library feature, how the files are stored on your hard drives does not affect Video Versions. Your video files can continue to be in their own folder, on different drives or in a single folder”. That’s fine, but when first scanning the videos currently we have two options:
1.- To let Kodi scan without stopping, adding all the movies, and afterward, the user has to define manually the parent version, and add the rest to it.
2.- To let Kodi stop in each version found, to ask to what parent movie belongs that version. The problem here is that maybe Kodi selects as the parent a version that you don’t want it to be, so when scanning ends, the user has to correct the situation.
Both methods are ok, but they are time consuming. That’s the reason why I suggest to add the above mentioned ‘versions’ folder option. That way the user would put under the main folder the parent version, and under that main folder, in a folder named ‘versions’ all the child versions, like in here...
That way Kodi would know in the first scan and without asking which is the preferred parent version and to what movie belong the child versions, much like the way that it currently does with the ‘extras’ folder. As I said, I don’t mean to change the current scanning behaviour, but to add this option, since once your media is organized this way, I think that scannings would be quicker and more exact. Just my 2 cents… Thanks!
I have tested the latest available Omega version (2024-Feb-09) and I’ve seen that even it’s still a WIP, everything works reasonably well. However, I would like to make some suggestions, from an user’s standpoint, not for Omega, since I know there's no time left, but for future Kodi versions.
It’s great to see how now Kodi adds automatically the videos under the folder ‘extras’ to the extras of that movie. I can’t help thinking that something similar could be done if Kodi could add automatically the movie versions located in a folder named ‘versions’ under the main movie folder. Why? As an user wanting to test this feature, I wondered where would be best to put my movie versions. The wiki says: “As this is a Library feature, how the files are stored on your hard drives does not affect Video Versions. Your video files can continue to be in their own folder, on different drives or in a single folder”. That’s fine, but when first scanning the videos currently we have two options:
1.- To let Kodi scan without stopping, adding all the movies, and afterward, the user has to define manually the parent version, and add the rest to it.
2.- To let Kodi stop in each version found, to ask to what parent movie belongs that version. The problem here is that maybe Kodi selects as the parent a version that you don’t want it to be, so when scanning ends, the user has to correct the situation.
Both methods are ok, but they are time consuming. That’s the reason why I suggest to add the above mentioned ‘versions’ folder option. That way the user would put under the main folder the parent version, and under that main folder, in a folder named ‘versions’ all the child versions, like in here...
That way Kodi would know in the first scan and without asking which is the preferred parent version and to what movie belong the child versions, much like the way that it currently does with the ‘extras’ folder. As I said, I don’t mean to change the current scanning behaviour, but to add this option, since once your media is organized this way, I think that scannings would be quicker and more exact. Just my 2 cents… Thanks!
