Option to add additional custom genres to the databases, scrapers, & library filters?

aeon

It's only applicable for the Horizonz skin I think.
I use PM3.HD and I'm also struggling with the fact of multiple libraries.

I hope it will be possible to inject location information into the movie information which library mode uses to filter its views (e.g. year, genre, ... => Folder (i.e. location/share)). This would be perfect and no use to switch profiles.

Aeon then uses a different name for the home screen xml file.
I am no skinner, but a very quick look in the Aeon folder suggests Home.xml (which btw should be the same for PM3.HD)
Edit: a qick 'n dirty test search suggests DialogButtonMenu.xml, no guarantees though.
There is a plethora of Aeon mods kicking around to get ideas from.
There is a lot of examples on this forum and in the online manual on how to modify PMIII (and PM3.HD).

Thanks for explaining, I understand it would be a lot of groundwork but its definitely worth it. Letting people customise the menus and create multiple libraries was always meedio's strength. Having moved to XBMC full time now it really is the only thing holding it back, but it is a limitation of this software.

Is there a solution for separating albums and singles? In the same way I would like seperate menu items for music albums, music singles and maybe compilation cds.

I stick with it that it could be possible by using the library mode's own filtering (source: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Import_-_Exp...ary#Movies)

Genres uses <genre></genre>
Title => <title></title>
Studio => <studio></studio>

Why shouldn't it be possible to use the path tag ?
Path => <path>smb://NAS/ShareLevel1/ShareLevel2/</path>
If not possible to determine the share level, the first level should do the trick.

This way you don't need different libraries, but you can do the splitting on folder level.

well i dodnt get this to work how i want to.

i use the newest xbmc release with horizons v4. i will try to explain... my english isnt very good...

i got 6 HDDs

HDD 1-4 -> HDTV
HDD 5 -> series
HDD 6 -> dvd rips / adult / music etc etc etc

i have enabled the libary in xbmc and added all folders etc etc. works fine so far.

but i want this:

in the home menu of xbmc there are "movies" "videos" "tv-series" "adult" etc

i want in the "movies" only my HDTV stuff. in the "videos" only my rips. in "tv-series" only the series and in the "adult" only the adult stuff.
with the series it works. i press on "tv-series" and i get to the libary with my series.

but when i go to "movies" there is all my hdtv stuff and all the rips etc together.

isnt it possible to handle 4 different libaries or something like that? with some other mod or something like that maybe? right now i can only handle this when i disable libary for adult / rips and use the "files" view in there....

hope anyone understands me O_o

the only thing i can think of, being kind of a noob myself, is creating a seperate profile for XBMC... i think this would allow you to create a new library, but i've never tried it, so im not sure... hope this helped

Thing that bothered me the most from a first day of using XBMC is files or library treatment of content. I find it rather confusing and limiting. How about combining them and keeping the best from both worlds, so when I add video source <DIR> like (same apply for pictures & music):

<KIDS>
- <2008>
- - folder.jpg
- <2009>
- - <VIDEO 1>
- - - video_file.avi
- - - folder.jpg
<VACATION>
- <Greece>
- - <VIDEO 5>
- - - video_file.mov
- - - fanart.jpg
- - - folder.jpg
<MOVIES>
- <ALIENS SET>
- - <Aliens 3>
- - - video_file.mkv
- - <Aliens 4>
- - - video_file.mkv
- - - folder.jpg
- <HELLBOY>
- - video_file.mkv
<TV SHOWS>
- <LOST>
- - <Season 1>
- - video_file.mp4

I would end up with

- 4 category tags (Kids, Vacation, Movies, TV Shows) would be added to DB,
- 5 set tags (2008,2009, Greece, Aliens set, Lost) would be added to DB
- any nfo, folder.jpg, fanart.jpg etc found would be added to DB
- if chosen so in settings, missing data would be scraped and supplemented

Subfolders should probably be restricted to 3 (Category, Set, Media_folder).

All in all - library acts the same, but with additional top layer filter categories and ability to group media. This way, maybe it would not be necessary to change DB (SQLite) and complicate UI furthermore. Of course, I am not a DB expert.

What do you think?

That's the basic idea of the new library system, yes. Though you get a choice as to whether you wish to browse by folder structure or library structure.

Use movie sets and profiles for now.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Movie_Sets

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=61779