2012-05-17, 05:09
Would love this feature, take xbmc to the next level.
Quote:post original link => http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid=872620Quote:The scraper doesn't seem to retrieve the release date from IMDB, i can live without it, just to know if it's normal...XBMC doesn't support/import this so no use, therefore this is not scraped.
(2012-04-02, 23:22)jmarshall Wrote: IIRC we store only the year in the database, not the full date. So first step would be ensuring the scrapers support it.
(2012-05-17, 10:50)sho Wrote: Even if it was scraped, XBMC probably has no facilities to expose it to skins, so yes that would be Jonathan's domain (Or another qualified dev).
Still, you can always populate the db field via an nfo file
But how would you plan to use it? For sorting? or just as part of the Media information dialog?
(2012-05-19, 16:02)sho Wrote: Read and wrote but not stored.
So several things need to happen.
1. The premiered field needs to be created in the video database.
2. It needs to be scraped or at least supplied in an nfo file.
3. The field needs to be available to the GUI
4. A premiered sorting option needs to be created.
5. Skins probably need to be altered to take advantage of it.
(2012-06-21, 09:12)Kokonutcreme Wrote: I found this thread in searching for a solution to sort newer movies by release date. The best solution I've devised is to create a smart playlist to capture movies where the year is greater than 2010. That then lists all movies released in 2011 and 2012 which I then sort by playlist in descending order.
While I can't refine the sorting option to month and year, the results are pretty accurate from cross checking the order movies appear in the list and their release dates listed in IMDB, even after being rescanned into the library. This made me wonder how this was possible if it is only looking at the year of a movie, not an entire date field.
Then I stumbled on to this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=132867 and read that the new advanced settings xml prefers to look at the modified time of a file if valid and change time if it isn't, or the newer date of the mtime and ctime if you change the default setting from 1 to 2.
This then made sense to me and also explained why some movies are higher up the list than their release date indicates they should be as I delete any unnecessary subtitle and audio tracks which creates a duplicate of the original file affecting the mtime.
It also got me thinking that I can use Advanced Finder Attributes utility on Mac OS to edit a files modified or created date to match the exact release date for that movie and see whether that will maintain the integrity of the sorting.