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I've got a ton of Laurel and Hardy movies, but they were being scattered throughout the movie collection rather than under a specific set.
I ran an export, choosing 'separate' to create a separate .nfo file for each movie.
I then went into each L&H film's .nfo and edited it, putting in <set>l and h movies</set>
I then restarted XBMC, and updated the library again, but nothing has changed. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong please?
Thanks.
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To make XBMC rescan a file you either have to individually refresh the info for each file, or removing them from the library and readding them. A faster way to edit movie sets than nfo files would be to just add them with
Add-on:XWMM (wiki).
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Thanks Ned, I didn't know you had to refresh each film individually but that did the trick. I'll look into this XWMM add-on as well.
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Ned, I've had a look at XWMM and it looks great. However, I notice now in my 'Laurel and Hardy Movie set' that the movies are not listed in alphabetical order.
What I did was to go through XWMM and order all the movies in that set under the field 'sort title' to ''LandH1", "LandH2", "LandH3", etc.
I've saved my work as I go, and have restarted XBMC, but it hasn't made a difference and the films in the set are still not in alphabetical order. Is it something really obvious I'm not doing?
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2012-08-09, 21:44
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-09, 21:46 by cactus99.)
Simply change the internal sort order of the set on the left slide menu in Confluence. I believe the current default sort order for sets is by year, not by name.
It's also possible to have an alternative sort order by name. Just add the tag <sorttitle>New sorttitle</sorttitle> to the .NFO file and refresh the movie.
The sort title will not be displayed anywhere but will be used when sorting the movies by name.