2011-10-12, 19:17
Only thing I can think of that would improve this would be more flexibility, perhaps via having all settings in an XML. So that we could, for example, have 2 preview trailers from Apple (streamed; newest, upcoming movies), followed by a preview trailer taken from our Library, followed by one from the Apple database (older movie). Ideally even include genre/year range/etc in the options, so that we could have, say, a horror movie trailer included amongst the randoms.
So something like this:
<item>
<type>trailer intro/trailer/trailer outro/feature intro/etc</type>
<quantity>1/2/3/random/etc</quantity>
<scraper>apple stream/apple database/library/folder/etc</scraper>
<genre>random (default)/match/newest/drama/horror/etc</genre>
<rating>any (default)/match/R/PG/etc</rating>
<year>any/match/(specified decade)</year>
</item>
...that kind of thing. Then we just include as many items as we'd like up to the playlist limit (quantity tag could be left out and instead just enter each item manually in the xml).
Is this something that is possible or interesting?
So something like this:
<item>
<type>trailer intro/trailer/trailer outro/feature intro/etc</type>
<quantity>1/2/3/random/etc</quantity>
<scraper>apple stream/apple database/library/folder/etc</scraper>
<genre>random (default)/match/newest/drama/horror/etc</genre>
<rating>any (default)/match/R/PG/etc</rating>
<year>any/match/(specified decade)</year>
</item>
...that kind of thing. Then we just include as many items as we'd like up to the playlist limit (quantity tag could be left out and instead just enter each item manually in the xml).
Is this something that is possible or interesting?