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KidKiwi said
"The menu takes you straight to the title page and it's easy to forget the other options are there one tier up (I don't have the "Up one Level" icon showing)."
I'd like my XBMC to do both these things, can anyone point me to some information on how to do it?
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What I would really find useful is custom categories that the user can define. For example: children, exercise. Mythtv has this functionality and I miss it now that I am moving over to xbmc.
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First letter won't be done, as IMO it's a useless way to browse your titles. Just use the jump by letter instead.
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Just Next/Prev, JumpSMS, and SHIFT-letter, yes.
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I just wanted to say that these library changes plus the hd flagging merge will honestly change the way I use XBMC every day. I am extremely excited about them, thanks for the hard work jmarshall!
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With a remote you can use JumpSMS2 -> JumpSMS9
Or you can use NextLetter/PrevLetter
It's completely up to you.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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this might be far too radical or impractical in idea but...
What if the user could make their own 'filter' criteria and name it?
Perhaps they could create some regex on one or more media info fields which will result in a set of matching media, sorted as they choose.
On the downside, it would mean them making some filter of their own (although some example common defaults could be provided), and skins would have to render this list (the list of user filters) somehow... but would that be doable, or even desirable?
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Although I'ver been using XBMC for the best part of 4 years, I still consider myself a noob when it comes to the Video Library. I've basically been using Library Mode for Music and File Mode for Video from Day 1. Having experimented with the Video Library last night, I do admit that it looks far slicker than File Mode (e.g. seeing the artwork and plot summary for my TV episodes and Movies). I've never experimented with .nfo files, and am hopeful that sensibly renaming any errant files will work out fine (shame video containers don't support tags like my MP3 / AAC files).
The one thing that stops me switching permanently to Libray Mode however, is the restriced types of content that can be assigned to files. In addition to TV Shows, Movies and Music Videos, my directory structure includes "Home Movies" and "Misc", which contains a mishmash of Fitness DVDs, Documentaries and a DTS Demo sample).
Is there a way of expanding the Library to include 'Home Movies', 'Fitness', etc, etc? If this already exists, then I hang my head in shame for polluting this thread!
