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Hi!
Is it possible to sort the movies alfabetically and chronologically?
F.ex. I have Star Wars 1-6, and I want them to be in "S" in the movies order, but I also want them to be in the correct order.
The same with f.ex. Harry Potter. It's like 7 (8?) movies, and they're all random, because of their names.
So...I guess the easiest would be to sort alfabetically, then by year right?
Suggestions?
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I second doing movie sets. They really work well.
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I think the bigger problem is that there WERE ONLY 3 STAR WARS MOVIES.
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Im not 100% sure but you might be able to use "sort title" in the NFO. I use this in Ember for sorting smovies that are part of a set, it might work in the same way for movies like this in a normal view but im not 100% sure.
I think the sytax in the movie.nfo is like this:
<sorttitle>
Star Wars 1 or SW1
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2011-06-20, 13:26
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-20, 13:33 by NorDemoniac.)
Oh, I thought I would get the sorttitle. Thank you! I will try this.
Will also look into XWMM, thanks for your help!
Will XWMM actually create NFOs or what? If I'm going to use several computers in the future, I would like the libraries to look the same. Will XWMM let me do that? I can see that the NFOs will solve this "problem".
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2011-06-20, 14:42
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-20, 14:45 by >>X<<.)
You have a choice of different things you can do, you could use a media manager like "Ember Media Manager" to scrape your artwork and create nfo's which will be stored with your media it also has a sets manager then when you scan this content into other systems it will always be the same
Another choice is to use XWMM and then when your finished export your library in XBMC using the "separate" files option this will send all your artwork and nfo's again to be stored with your media
Other options for moving to another machine if you don't have local artwork and nfo's as above is to export to a single file then import on the new machine or if your movie/tv source on each machine is going to be exactly the same just copy your "userdata" folder across to the new machine this is all I do to save scanning again as its instant
I have artwork and nfo's with my media as I like to choose my artwork and if I have to ever rebuild my library its all there and only takes a short time, I use Ember for this
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Hi, sorry to bump an old thread but I think this is a feature that should be baked into the default functionality more. In the sort-by options, I really believe their should be an option to sort by Set, or ideally, sort by Title but group by set. The library should be sorted (in this configuration) by Title as usual but when it finds a movie that belongs to a set (with other movies in that set in the library) it will put them all next to the first movie in the set in the set order. I'm manually achieving this right now with nfo files but it's quite cumbersome for large libraries and strikes me as the kind of thing that should be a lot easier.