Option to use folder date for recently added movies

WinRAR seems to be very stupid. It only adjusts the mtime of the top-level folder in my rar archive. Any file in that directory keeps the original mtime.

(2013-04-18 19:42)Montellese Wrote:  WinRAR seems to be very stupid. It only adjusts the mtime of the top-level folder in my rar archive. Any file in that directory keeps the original mtime.

Okay? So you haven't really tested this in Windows or do you use another Winrar application that works as XBMC needs it to?

(2013-04-18 20:05)snowjim Wrote:  

(2013-04-18 19:42)Montellese Wrote:  WinRAR seems to be very stupid. It only adjusts the mtime of the top-level folder in my rar archive. Any file in that directory keeps the original mtime.

Okay? So you haven't really tested this in Windows or do you use another Winrar application that works as XBMC needs it to?

Come on man, lighten up already. That's a winrar problem, not an XBMC problem.

Yeah, I thought there was "problems" when it came to windows and mtime, I came across it before doing a perl script at one time a while back. It simply doesn't behave the same as it does in other OSes. Take winrar out of the equation and simply copy any file. Both the ctime and mtime will be the same as the original file on the time. In other OSes, the new file would have the current time for ctime/mtime on the new file.

I haven't tested it on windows with RAR archives because I don't use RAR archives for videos or any other media because IMO it's an extra burden on the user and is therefore plain stupid. Why can't you just use the dateadded mode that always uses the current time when a video is added to the library/database instead? It will do exactly what you want without having to mess around with winrar or touch your files or whatever.

Okay, so if a user is in the following environment :

1. Windows platform
2. Gets movies/videos in rar archives
3. Needs to sort on last added to library

he/she will now have to create a advanced setting file, look up how the tag is suppose to look like and then set it accordingly.

Something tells me that there is A LOT of users that runs like this, but hay, what do I know, you are the developers

I have nothing more to say, good luck with more quality development.

You won't have an issue if you don't extract the rars, right?

(2013-04-19 07:25)jmarshall Wrote:  You won't have an issue if you don't extract the rars, right?

Im not sure, I will look in to this. But not even you suggests streaming rar archives? And I agree with this, its generates other problems with the library.

I do agree that Winrar should set the modified date but it is not and this software have been around for a LONG time so if this is not a temporary bug all the users that needs this basic sort order will have to set the advanced setting file. Maybe there is another rar application that does this right?

All I'm saying is that there will probably be a lot of users that runs in to this problem and they will not have a clue to why until they read in the forums/Wiki.

But as I said, I have nothing more to add in this topic.

What about movies/episode release/aired date? Is this available in DB?

Recently added node would filter by date added to DB, while Recently released would show fresh releases.