2011-03-14, 20:25
Think that going the TVDB way may be a valid option in creating predefined smartlists. Looking over the search engine they have genre and network already incorporated. So just a quick defined list of networks and a scrape through the API (must be source as its what xbmc does) will build a massive amount of smartplaylists quickly
So say instead you have options like this
ABC
CNN
FOX
CBS
BBC
ITV
presented as predifines to the end user. You select one of more of the networks and it scrapes the available shows from TVDB, saving them into a pregenerated playlist.
You could also have another section for genre toggles so
ANIMATION
COMEDY
DOCUMENTARY
etc etc. (using TVDB genres)
So say a user selects FOX and CBS with toggles enabled of COMEDY & ANIMATION, this would automatically parse and generate
FOX COMEDY
FOX ANIMATION
CBS COMEDY
CBS ANIMATION
Can you see where i'm going with this ?
So say instead you have options like this
ABC
CNN
FOX
CBS
BBC
ITV
presented as predifines to the end user. You select one of more of the networks and it scrapes the available shows from TVDB, saving them into a pregenerated playlist.
You could also have another section for genre toggles so
ANIMATION
COMEDY
DOCUMENTARY
etc etc. (using TVDB genres)
So say a user selects FOX and CBS with toggles enabled of COMEDY & ANIMATION, this would automatically parse and generate
FOX COMEDY
FOX ANIMATION
CBS COMEDY
CBS ANIMATION
Can you see where i'm going with this ?