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2022-10-05, 13:53
(This post was last modified: 2022-10-05, 14:42 by Klojum. Edited 1 time in total.)
Uso mucho la función de favoritos y me gustaría poder organizar mis favoritos con carpetas y tener organizados y separados películas de series, canales, complementos, etc.
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I use the favorites function a lot and I would like to be able to organize my favorites with folders and have organized and separated movies from series, channels, add-ons, etc.
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I am glad it is working well for all of you. I'll see about digging into it deeper to add more details for the llist display. I only really picked up this addon and did some minimal changes to get it to run in Matrix (and get my feet wet with Python, as I come from a 25 year background with Perl and Mysql).
After I get some more list details working, and clean up the code a bit more, I will see about getting it into the Kodi repo.
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After reviewing the code, it appears that when an item is "added" , it interrogates may fields ( filename, title, duration, rating, year, date, plot, plotoutline, thumb, poster, fanart ) and stores them in a database.
Then, when displaying the list, it uses those pieces of data to reconstruct the details.
So, any details not setup to be saved/regurgitated would be missing.
In addition, the "save" action is a single snapshot of this data at that time, so if something changes in these details, the changes would not be seen in the displayed list.
I am considering building a new addon (so as not to interfere with this one) that works differently:
1) I would store only the filename in the background when adding to a list
2) Based on these list of filenames, I would have the script generate XSP (smart Playlists) files, which would include searches on these filenames
3) Then to display these, all you need to do is "use" the XSP like any other Smart Playlist, which would then populate every detail because this is a built in Kodi process !
The only downside I see, is that working in this way, we could not force any specific "order" of the displayed list (but, you could use any sort/filter that you could with any other XSP list !)
Also, since these would be actual xsp lists, you could manually add another XSP that "combines" the lists to look for matching items (for example if you have a "his" and "her" list, manually add another xsp "his and hers" and set it up to list only those where there is an overlap !
Would love any feedback on this idea, and I can probably have some code to begin testing within a week or so (depending on my day job)
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I like the idea of the rebuild, but suggest subsequent efforts should be disassociated from this gem.