2011-01-17, 17:00
Angelscry Wrote:I think that recursively replace a string into a text file is not so complicated when your are able to setup a local network with shares. All the text editors have this function.
It is just an import function. The imported text file could be anywhere and is never linked to a game. All the infos are into the launchers.xml file
Using NFO files will not solve your problem. NFO file will only contain data info, and not thumbs and fanarts images path. So you will still need to edit the launchers.xml file to have the right images path.
This could actually work though. If we all agreed on a folder naming structure like the global XBMC database or something.
Code:
[font=Fixedsys]Games
Launchers
|
|--Comics
| |----Comic 1
| | |___ Comic 1 Media files
| | |___ Comic 1 nfo
| |----Comic 2
| |___ Comic 2 Media files
| |___ Comic 2 nfo
|
|--Games
| |----Game 1
| | |___ Game 1 Media files
| | |___ Game 1 nfo
| |----Game 2
| | |___ Game 2 Media files
| | |___ Game 2 nfo
| |----Game 3
| |___ Game 3 Media files
| |___ Game 3 nfo
|
|--Emulators
|----Nes
| |___NES Game 1 Media files
| |___NES Game 1 nfo
| |___NES Game 1 rom
| |___NES Game 2 nfo
| |___NES Game 2 Media files
| |___NES Game 2 rom
|----Genesis
|___ Genesis Game 1 Media files
|___ NES Game 1 nfo
|___ NES Game 1 rom
[/font]
It's an actual good idea but it gives users less flexiblity in the end. The plus side is it would be similar to managing the rest of your library. It could be even managed by Ember (for creating the nfo's, etc.) And would be more manageable with bigger collections since launcher.xml wouldn't be so big.
You would only add sources (like the games folder pictured above but it would be only the game launchers folder) You could have all your launchers as .lnk launchers there or something and have them all scraped automatically. You could add another source for comics, or books or whatever.
On the other hand it would be a loooooooot of work. And I'm happy with ALA the way it is now