[rausch101]

He uses the current nodes as follows:


Movies
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Title: The majority of the time.
Genre: Fills the gap when he wants to watch something but doesn't know what it is yet.
Year: On the odd occasion when in the mood for something modern or old (Year node not the best for achieving this i.e He is never looking for something made in 1972 but in last xx years etc)
Actor: Once to satisfy a bet a.k.a never
Director: never
Studio: never

TV shows
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Title: always
Genre: Never
Year: Never
Actor: Never
Director: Never
Studio: Never

My database isn't as large as xexe's, but it's still very large on a... normal scale I use the video nodes in the exact way that xexe does, with one exception. Every so often I will use the studio tag to look up a Pixar movie, but that's the only time. I also think that making a "decade" node would be more effective than a "year" node.

Recently added TV and Movies is a firm favourite here. One major downside of the recently added tv lists is that it often gets saturated out by the replacement of a tv recorded ep with a dvd rip. I often have 25 new individual eps for 25 different shows all lined up to watch then the addition of a new dvd season pushes 22 of them out the list. Thats a pain that would benefit from a solution of "filter the last xx eps from unique shows added"

I completely agree with this as well. This sort of behavior also happens whenever I decide to pickup a new TV Series - the "Recently Added" TV Show node gets flooded with that new show. Like xexe said, it'd be nice to have a limit on the number of those episodes. A better solution might be: if there's ,say, 3+ episodes added from one show, just display "# New [show] Episodes".