Easy way to make movie sets?

I'm on XBMCbuntu (Eden)..
I have "Group movies in sets" turned on.. but some are simply not being grouped.

Cirque Du Soliel collection... for instance.

Is there an easy way to take my list of movies and create a set for them?
Is there a menu item I am missing somewhere?
Is there an Add-on that will add this functionality from my remote?

Everything I'm finding says "edit the NFO file.."
And that requires exiting out of the GUI to the desktop and editing several dozen files, which defeats the purpose of having this all set up on my remote in the first place.

There is a move set add-on. You can also use one of the web interfaces

Add-on:XWMM

(2012-07-29 08:55)chaosmstr Wrote:  Cirque Du Soliel collection... for instance.

Added Cirque du Soleil collection on themoviedb.org so if you should re-add/refresh those in about two days they should show up in a collection

I am having the same issue with a few movie sets.

I have used XWMM in order to add stray movies to collections which are already showing but some I do not think have yet been created on themoviedb so they are not grouping together.

I have signed up to themoviedb in order to try add the collections myself so that they scrape but I cant find the option to.

Would someone be kind enough to add some collections to themoviedb or tell me how I can?

Thank you!!

@AnnaOmnity

Seriously! 2nd link down?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tmdb+add+movies+to+collection

Just dont go creating collections that are imaginary or unique only to you.

uNi

LOL thanks uNiversal.

I have tried to change the movie type field to 'Movie Collection' but it is showing a locked padlock and therefore I can't edit it

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(2013-02-13 20:08)uNiversal Wrote:  @AnnaOmnity

Seriously! 2nd link down?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tmdb+add+movies+to+collection

Just dont go creating collections that are imaginary or unique only to you.

uNi

Perhaps I am just being extraordinary stupid. The movie I am trying to create the collection for is :


https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7295-8mm-2
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8224-8mm

https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/50c557da...40d000040a

Is the XBMC forums or the TMDB forums? I'm confused.

uNi

I'm reading the team's discussion about managing movie sets and i very much hope that XBMC will not go Plex way and make us use web browser to manage even most basic things. Sure, these kinds of supplementary tools/interfaces are great when they are optional, but imho it's XBMC's strength that we can edit stuff via XBMC itself, especially with the help of Phil65's library editor script.

If you make movies sets manageable only from a web interface where will it stop? Soon other things will follow and have to use the web interface to fix incorrect scraping matches..

We're not suggesting that at all. What we are suggesting is that basic stuff is editable inside XBMC (without add-ons) and more complicated stuff is better served via other avenues. That doesn't preclude an add-on allowing full on editing inside the XBMC UI if it wants.

The idea I have (you'll notice several disagree with me) on this front is that editing a single item (or even multiple items at once) could be something XBMC can take care of, whilst mass-editing a whole heap of items all at once is something better suited to an interface that allows simple multiple selection, drag n drop etc.