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Situation: I have a few movies on my internal drive, and a whole bunch on a usb drive. All of them are in the xbmc library. When the usb drive is disconnected/unavailable, I would like to see only the available movies (i.e., only those on the internal drive) when I browse the library.
This could be an advanced settings option or an item in the view options menu in library mode, called "Hide unavailable items" or something.
Sounds like an idea? Or is this already possible?
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Using smart playlists you can come part of the way: you can create a smart playlist that shows only files in certain paths, excluding those that are removable.
For a more elegant solution a redesign of the database and the way media is handled would be needed.
For example, it would be nice if you could mark certain media sources as "removable". All media on a currently offline source could than be displayed with an overlay icon or be greyed out. And instead of a message to remove unavailable content from the library when you try to play something you could have a message like "make sure that xxxxx is available".
I think all righthtinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.
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tria
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You can do it as as PM-SYM and fional suggested, which both solve part of the problem, which making it easier for you to identify/differentiate the sources.
However, I wish there was a way to not hide the movie/series, but to make it look transparent or shady if it is not available (not only for external HDD, but also for remote server/NAS). This will let you know that you do have the movie/series, but you don't have it online (active) right now. This will also force skinners to handle this state (instead of adjusting a skin yourself, which need an adjust with every update to the skin). Also, I always wished there was a way to show an Icon for the source location (Local/LAN/On the web/Addon-sourced video/audio). So you can add media sources to your library, and know which on is local, and which one is remote. Also with video addon, you can have a movie/episode stream pointing to an addon that stream this video, and have this stream show the logo of the addon (e.g. YouTube, Hulu, Netflix,..etc). I know that some of them are not supported, but you never know.
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2012-12-23, 04:31
(This post was last modified: 2012-12-23, 04:35 by tesona1977.)
+1 for this feature
...maybe some kind of "dynamic libary" feature
- anybody can bring in his own removable media which contents an seperate xbmc libary (scanned by third party xbmc)
if you attach the device...xbmc looks for a specific file ".xbmc-removable" for example and than adds the content of the attached media as a seperate media library until you detach it again.
what do you think?
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I need this function too!
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a new one user here!
first of all, sorry for my english
I have the same problem as the other user says. This commented feature it is very useful, in my case I have a lots of external usb drives, so, i don't want the inside files to be shown if the disk is not connected at precise time
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Absolutely. Have been looking for something like this.
I think it's fairly common to have something external for mass storage. And a laptop.
So I'd love to have something like this working where I can have recorded series on their usb-stick, plugin in, browse & play play, and remove again.
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Nilink
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Im also interested in this having many remote sources this would be ideal if i could see source i had to connect
