Solved Issue Option to Create Multiple Video Libraries

initially, when I got the idea to make this thread, I'll admit that I was thinking about having a separate library for my porn stash, as it is fairly embarrassing for me when I open up my video library in front of friends, girls, my four-year-old nephew, etc. and it shows "Hot and Lusty Butthole Sluts 5" immediately after "Home Alone."

Now, I've read a few threads out there concerning password protecting shares, and using multiple profiles to restrict access and that's fine. That's not what I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is to create a third (or fourth, or fifth) video library in addition to Movies and TV Shows.

A feature like this would be useful to not just perverts like myself who want to keep their adult films separate from their feature films, but also people who want to keep their documentaries separate from their movies, or their anime separate from their other TV Shows.

I don't know Python, but I could probably pick it up on the fly, so if someone could point me in the right direction to figuring out how to code a plug-in (or better yet, if someone is willing to work with me on this project), or even if something like this already exists and I simply missed it, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Use Profiles within XBMC and Password Protect the Naughty one

Smartplaylists could also be usefull

As Machine-Sanctum said you can do this with smart playlists you still have to have a main Movie and TV library containing everything but you can always hide/replace those with another playlist

>>X<< Wrote:As Machine-Sanctum said you can do this with smart playlists you still have to have a main Movie and TV library containing everything but you can always hide/replace those with another playlist

Selection by path is the easiest one. But there are several options to do this.

Some skin allow you to point the MOVIES (or a new one) menu item to a favourite.
Add the smartplaylist to your favourites and then in skin settings point to that favourite.
So this way you can exclude the ones you don't want in movies and put those in a seperate (sub)menu item

Would love to see this properly implemented rather than the work-around with play-lists. The issue I have with playlist is that it will not allow me anymore to further filter it. For example, I would have a playlist with horror movies. When selecting this playlist, I could then not select year=2010 anymore (not as a playlist, but as a manual sort in the same way as I would do it with the full movie library).

So, what this request is about having multiple video libraries. For example, I would love to see:

1) Movies (excl. music movies such as live concerts)
2) TV shows (excl. documentaries and own records 1)
3) TV shows (documentaries)
4) TV shows (own recordings group 1)
5) TV shows (own recordings group 2)
6) Music videos
7) Music (excl. audio books)
8) Music (audio books)

Thanks!!!

This is exactly what I came her to ask for. I dont mind so much for my extensive tv library. I have a couple things in my movie database that I think need their own Library. My digital backups of all my MST3K movies, all my Zatoichi movies, and all my Rifftrax Dubbed movies. They muck up my Movies library so much. It really bugs me. Scrolling through 25+ Ichi movies, 100+ MST3K movies. Gets quite bothersome...

I think one of the nicest ways to set this up is being able to add a custom label when aadding a scraper to a directory. So I can select my "rifftrax" folder which holds like 60+ rifftrax movies in folders with all its supplemental files and then have it in the drop down where "movies" and "tv" have like "custom label". Then have that label saved for further use.

thats just how I think it would be best used.

steve1977 Wrote:Would love to see this properly implemented rather than the work-around with play-lists. The issue I have with playlist is that it will not allow me anymore to further filter it. For example, I would have a playlist with horror movies. When selecting this playlist, I could then not select year=2010 anymore (not as a playlist, but as a manual sort in the same way as I would do it with the full movie library).

So, what this request is about having multiple video libraries. For example, I would love to see:

1) Movies (excl. music movies such as live concerts)
2) TV shows (excl. documentaries and own records 1)
3) TV shows (documentaries)
4) TV shows (own recordings group 1)
5) TV shows (own recordings group 2)
6) Music videos
7) Music (excl. audio books)
8) Music (audio books)

Thanks!!!

So in your case, smart playlists would do the exact job you want if one could filter within a playlist. Maybe that is something that can be added. IMO, playlists are a much better solution than multiple libraries because with multiple libraries it can segregate your items too much. What if one wants to view items from multiple libraries at the same time? Seems to me, much better is all items are in one library and then the views to what you look at are manipulated. That would give the most flexibility. If one really wants multiple libraries, then use a separate profile.

gabbott Wrote:So in your case, smart playlists would do the exact job you want if one could filter within a playlist. Maybe that is something that can be added. IMO, playlists are a much better solution than multiple libraries because with multiple libraries it can segregate your items too much. What if one wants to view items from multiple libraries at the same time? Seems to me, much better is all items are in one library and then the views to what you look at are manipulated. That would give the most flexibility. If one really wants multiple libraries, then use a separate profile.

Agree with you, but the IF is quite a bit one... I am not a coder, but having a smart playlist behave like a playlist (i.e., making it sortable in all its beauty and complexity) is not an easy request. However, if this would be possible, it would be a great alternative solution!!!

steve1977 Wrote:Agree with you, but the IF is quite a bit one... I am not a coder, but having a smart playlist behave like a playlist (i.e., making it sortable in all its beauty and complexity) is not an easy request. However, if this would be possible, it would be a great alternative solution!!!

You can edit smartplaylist from within XBMC so no coding skill required.