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I'm adding some "old" movies I found back into my video source shared-folder (NAS). Interestingly, I DON'T want these to show up as the most recently added movies... is there a way to manually edit the "date added" metadata for movies in the library?
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THanks, Karellen! I *think* I could do this by addding <dateadded> flag to advancedsettings.xml before doing the import of these files... that might work. I'll give that a try this weekend.
One more question ... it would be simpler if there were some utiltiy/add-on that just lets me go and change the "date-added" for particular files. Anyone have familiarty with some utility that does that?
Just to be clear -- I'm not sure I explained the scenario entirely:
- I just added 3 movies to my file share today. ("actualdate"= mar 28)
- Kodi will scan the file source next time it's run, discover the new files, scrape metadata, and then add these into the library (data records in a MySQL database, I assume) it will set some field "date added to the library" to Mar 28, 2019.
- this will cause these 3 movies to show up on the home screen as the 3-most-recent ... and in the "recently added" sorts, these will be at the top ... but that's not what I want. I want Kodi to treat these as if they've been in the library for years.
To do this -- I assume I need to CHANGE THE FIELD "dateadded" for each of these three movies inside the SQL database. Is there some editor utility to do this? I can't find a way to do it in the Kodi native UI...
Thanks!
