Yes, its true that it would be nice that when an entire new TV Series is added to XBMC that some how these episodes are filtered out of the standard 'Recently Added' items.
At the moment, if using the 'Skin Widgets' AddOn, Recently Added has the following option setting:
- Only Unplayed and Unfinished
I guess if "Only in Progress" was also added as an option then it would mean all the episodes from a new TV Show wouldnt appear, and would mostly solve the problem you mention. I have raised it in the relevant thread here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=142389&page=51
About your mention of a having a new 'recently added tv shows list', for me I have an 'Unwatched TV Shows' list that mostly performs this same function, since if an entire TV Show is unwatched, probably its also newly added too.
I can also suggest the CCM - Confluence Customizable Mod Skin (
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160184). It retains the look and feel of Confluence whilst adding a lot of useful features, including some that might help with this problem (it utilises the 'Skin Widgets' AddOn already)
It also has the 'Recommended / Suggested Episodes' functionality of the Skin Widgets Addon built in. In this case you could use this instead of 'Recently Added'.
Suggested Episodes (I call it next episodes) only displays the Next UnWatched Episode from a TV Series that is already 'In Progress'.
In this case none of the episodes from an entire newly added series would clutter this list, since that new TV Show is not yet In Progress.
Hope this helps
(2013-09-01, 12:54)texaco Wrote: Thanks you put me on the right track in order to group episodes from the same show together with the use of services.skin.widgets.
If anyone are interested in this fix please let me know
http://i.imgur.com/uNPDdT6.jpg
This grouping looks like a good option for some people too. Im interested, can you please PM me? Thanks