[therealjoeblow]

It's super important for me to put the Offline flag and the location ID (double field in the form of text - number. So for example could be Shelf - 3 or DVD - 540)

So with one library I can browse all my online media and switch to look for a movie in the offline.

So far I was able only to find workarounds...

The key point for offline files is not only to have the flag but to be able to manage the lack of the physical file.

The solution I have found is to have a folder per each movie with a fake avi in it. The problem is that XBMX reads the video properties out of the fake avi.

Here is the structure:
Directory of T:\test out\output 2\A Beautiful Mind (2001).offdvd
A Beautiful Mind (2001).offdvd.avi
A Beautiful Mind (2001).offdvd.info
A Beautiful Mind (2001).offdvd.jpg
A Beautiful Mind (2001).offdvd.nfo
A Beautiful Mind (2001).offdvd.tbn
/extrathumbs
fanart.jpg
folder.jpg
poster.jpg

This is just the best solution I was able to find. But in the library I'm not able to switch/filter between online and offline so... for now... I cannot use library for online contents.

Hoping this helps!

M

Yet *another* vote for some basic, functional offline management. I know the devs continually insist that this isn't a priority for them, but *many, many* users keep asking for it... we seem to be at an impass here (the devs' answer is usually, "this isn't a priority for us, if it is to you then code it yourself", which isn't workable either, since if we were all really good coders we'd have just written our own custom applications to start with).

Really, it doesn't have to be a major overhaul to XBMC or the database, I don't think that's what anyone's asking for - just a simple addition of 2 fields to the database - OFFLINE Y/N, and if Y, then a disc index number. And a simple modification to the XBMC to ask for the disc number to be inserted if OFFLINE=Y, and maybe a small change to the box that pops up when the entry in the database is clicked in the library but not found online, instead of "do you want to delete it from the library Y/N", add "or do you want to move it to offline status (enter disc id)"

Other than those tweaks, the file scanning and scraping functionality is already there, I can already scan my DVD's with either original DVD content or video media content just the same as scanning a harddrive to catalog the actual data (albeit clunky, one at a time). Maybe adding a queing function for the actual scraping from IMDb etc could also be added for offline media so you can more quickly pop the discs in and out and do the time consuming scraping later, but then, that's a more advanced feature that I could see taking some effort and time to add...

Just my $0.02, but I get frustrated when devs continually refuse to consider functional requests that really make a lot of sense to many users that are made over and over again, but yet other seemingly unique/advanced/user-specific features get added...

Cheers,
The REAL Joe