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Ozpeg · 2012-04-21, 09:42

I have just re-installed XMBC, and during set-up turned on the option to "Group Movies by Set"
I have just noticed it is putting some movies into sets (eg cars) but not others
I checked the "manual for XBMC and have removed the moves from the library and rescanned - to no avail
Is there a way of manually configuring the movies to be scanned in to groups/collections
I have 32 movies of Abbott and Costello, plus several movies which have remakes, whic I want groups into their own sets.

I am also having an issue with the TV Series "The Munsters" where is is scanned as "The Munsters Today" - not what I want
I am guessing I could use a similar solution for the movies to fix the TV show issue ?

Any help would be appreciated

Ozpeg · 2012-04-21, 11:25

Just a quick addition :

I am using the "Confluence" skin, and most collections are being sorted correctly - it's only a few Movie series that are not being sorted into collection correctly (Like Abbot and Costello, Planet Of The Apes, Sister Act, Clash Of the Titans)

I have corrected folder and file names where possible but still not sorting correctly.

drunken_prozac · 2012-04-21, 15:40

For doing movie sets download the XWMM program (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=60643) then go to settings->network-> and change the interface to XWMM.

Then in a web browser use the ip address of your pc followed by the port number you set up, for example mine is... 192.168.1.108:8090

This will load a webpage where you can add movies to any set you want or create your own, it will also show a red cross next to films it hasn't scanned in correctly to the library.
I made myself a '3D Films' set and put all 3D films in it.

Darren

Ozpeg · 2012-04-21, 17:15

This is probably a really dumb question : does it matter is it is installed on the same machine as XBMC ?

I am guessing it doesn't, but prefer to be sure as I have a huge media library (900+ movies plus 500+ tv shows and documentaries)

Ozpeg · 2012-04-22, 02:06

I have answered my own (dumb) question Laugh

Thanks for the info about XWMM - it seems to be ideal, exactly what I need

The only thing I can't find is how to add movies to the collections I have created - I can crate the collection names with ease, just filling them is the hard part Confused

I have tried the usual stuff - clicking and dragging, even right-clicking - but can't see how.

Maybe I'm going insane, or looking for the wrong option.

Is there a wiki or manual on using XWMM

argh! · 2012-05-23, 10:19

Love the add=on, works very well and is pretty easy to use.

I just got myself all 8 of the " Up!" series; the docs wherein a guy interviews people every 7 years, starting at age 7.

Of 8 episodes, only 7 made it into the correct group. the 8th is very new, so I wasn't too surprised it didn't get added to the Group. But it got to thinking: is there a database that this feature references? If so, can I add this 8th episode to the database so folks in the future won't also have to go through this?

**PatK** · 2012-05-23, 17:01

The movie database that you're scraper uses determines what's in set and what isn't... really new stuff might take a while to get tagged with a set, but when it does.. a simple re-scrape will tag your.nfo with the set name. You can manually edit the .nfo and insert the set tags <set>movie set collection</set> (you need to export as separate files, edit; then do a local refresh to pull in the edited .nfo) ) or use a 3rd party program like XWMM to add it directly.

Note: a new scraper 'Universal Scraper' allows for split scrapes from different databases.