[mebia]

I read the wiki entry about movie stacking and attempted to create a custom stacking regular expression.
I created the advancedsettings.xml file in %appdata%\Roaming\XBMC\userdata with the following content:

<advancedsettings>
<moviestacking>
<regexp>(.*?)( \(Part [0-9]\))(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
</moviestacking>
</advancedsettings>

I want to match files named like "My Movie (Part 1).avi" and "My Movie (Part 2).avi".
However, when I add my folder of movie files to the library, I do not see any of these movies. I have the flatten and stacking options selected.

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

[scudlee]

You only have three capturing groups in your regex, but according to the wiki, there must be exactly four. Also, you don't have action="prepend" (or "append"), so you're overwriting the existing moviestacking as well.

Try:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <moviestacking action="prepend">
    <regexp>(.*?)( \(Part [0-9]\))(.*?)(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
  </moviestacking>
</advancedsettings>

[mebia]

This works, thanks!

[mebia]

Sorry to open an old thread but it is a follow up question (I have started using Kodi again after many years).
In my advanced settings file, I have the following:

Code:

<moviestacking>
        <regexp>(.+)( \(Part [0-9]\))()(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
</moviestacking>

My movies are being stacked, however, "()" is being left on the end.
My movies are named like "300 (Part 1).mkv", is there anyway I can have it remove the parentheses when stacking?

[Miguix]

You only have three capturing groups in your regex, but according to the wiki, there must be exactly four....

I noticed the "exactly four" requirement as well. That seems quite silly. Whats the thought behind this?

[mebia]

I agree, that requirement seems quite arbitrary.
I simply included "()" to bring my regular expression up to four capture groups.

Turns out I unknowingly messed up a tag in another section of my advancedsettings.xml file a few days ago, causing all of my settings (including the movie stacking regular expression) to be ignored.