[JohnWPB]

Precisely! You could use the categories for what ever you wanted to use them for, offline movies, Kid's Movies, Home Movies, CES Video's, SEMA Videos, the list is what ever you would want it to be!

My thinking is that it would work almost exactly line genre currently works.

With button code, you could make buttons that directly link to any category:

<onclick>ActivateWindow(10024,Category=Home Movies)</onclick>

An example of a playlist rule for instance:

<rule field="path" Catagory="contains">Kids Movies</rule>

I think the easiest way to tackle it would be to copy the genre code section, and alter it from there. It should work very similar, just that the categories can be defined.

Something like this is a change at the very heart of the core, and will not happen, and be supported overnight. The hard part will be trying to skin it all into place. Such getting the Info from a selected movie in the list, and having a new button for "Assign Category" and then able to assign an category to it, or add a new one with the OSK.

Then the new field in the movie.nfo and such that are created with the 3rd party scrapers out there (Media Info +, Media Companion ect ec)