2009-06-27, 04:59
This feature would be particularly useful for setting up an organizing a video library with a lot of TV shows. I'm sure many other users have encountered problems setting up their video library because of the way in which their video files are named. With a large library, actually manually changing the name of each episode can be a pain, as can changing the advancedsettings.xml file, if a lot of files are named in different ways.
What I am proposing is simply allowing the user to drag video files directly into the library, without the need to scrape the files, or create .nfo files. Or, rather than dragging the files from an external folder, the files would simply be selected in XBMC and added to a certain part of a library (whether it be movies, or a TV show).
A bonus to this feature would be allowing XBMC to still scrape the information from IMDB, or whatever, and simply select the corresponding video file.
Take for example a show like Scrubs:
Let's say you have Season 7 and want to add it, but the files are poorly and inconsistently named. You simply allow XBMC to scrape the information for Scrubs Season 7, and it creates a folder in your Video library. From there, you noticed that the folder is empty, because XBMC cannot recognize the naming scheme of the files. So, you simply open up the folder containing the video files and drag them into the corresponding Season 7 folder in XBMC. After this you make sure all the episodes are in order - and then you select the "Tag as episodes in season", and XBMC scrapes the information for each episodes, and simply appends it to the video files in the order that they are in.
Of course, this would still work for individual files, i.e. movies and such.
I think this would be a much easier alternative to having to worry about the naming scheme of video files, or anything of the sort. Furthermore, in the event that one is using torrents and seeding video files, it can be an even greater pain in the ass to rename them and get them to work on XBMC, without receiving an error from the torrent client once the path to the file becomes invalid.
What I am proposing is simply allowing the user to drag video files directly into the library, without the need to scrape the files, or create .nfo files. Or, rather than dragging the files from an external folder, the files would simply be selected in XBMC and added to a certain part of a library (whether it be movies, or a TV show).
A bonus to this feature would be allowing XBMC to still scrape the information from IMDB, or whatever, and simply select the corresponding video file.
Take for example a show like Scrubs:
Let's say you have Season 7 and want to add it, but the files are poorly and inconsistently named. You simply allow XBMC to scrape the information for Scrubs Season 7, and it creates a folder in your Video library. From there, you noticed that the folder is empty, because XBMC cannot recognize the naming scheme of the files. So, you simply open up the folder containing the video files and drag them into the corresponding Season 7 folder in XBMC. After this you make sure all the episodes are in order - and then you select the "Tag as episodes in season", and XBMC scrapes the information for each episodes, and simply appends it to the video files in the order that they are in.
Of course, this would still work for individual files, i.e. movies and such.
I think this would be a much easier alternative to having to worry about the naming scheme of video files, or anything of the sort. Furthermore, in the event that one is using torrents and seeding video files, it can be an even greater pain in the ass to rename them and get them to work on XBMC, without receiving an error from the torrent client once the path to the file becomes invalid.