2010-07-15, 16:27
So? Still no news for that? My Xbmc reset itself and my library order goes to bitches like we say in italian
BigBlack Wrote:I only have this option with library mode deactivated.... But file view it's not a good layout to share movies... Also for more fuction of some skin that are not available in file view mode...
Yes i think so.. It's a real high priority for me and i think for much other... I also add more movies... more than can i see... so at least it's not easy to find last movie added.. above all because i'm not the only user.. so i can remember a bit last added but the other user can't...
Ronner Wrote:Could see where the confusion would come from. It's just handy to be able to sort your media on when you added it, and to make sure it's the same date when you have to recreate the library for some reason, you should use either the creation or modification date of the file so it will be (roughly) the same again.
Right now I have 300+ movies and way more tv show episodes and I just installed XBMC. The recently added movies list is most certainly not the same order as I put them on my fileserver, which I would love them to be in so whenever I put a new movie on my fileserver and import it into the library, I could actually sort my movies in XBMC on that. And if for some reason I have to recreate my library, it will not be in a random order again as it is now. For any reason you could end up in a situation where you have to recreate your library. New HTPC, harddisk crash, you name it.
I don't think it's such a big or difficult or useless feature to implement. It is actually very useful for a lot of people with large collections of media, especially new XBMC users that are importing their media for the first time. Besides that, I don't get why you would store a small list of "recently added movies" when you could've as well set the date it was added in the library itself and sort on that. Perhaps I'm missing something why it's done the way it is now.
AnalogKid Wrote:But, what's the logic behind wanting to see your media in the order you added it?
Sort by Movie Date: I want to make sure I watch the trilogy in the right order
Sort by Alphabet: Helps me rapidly find the movie I want, if I know the name
Sort by Duration: I only have 90 mins, so no point watching 2hr movie
Sort by Rating: Not in the mood to watch a lousy movie
View unwatched: I need to catch up on some viewing
Sort by Date added: what's the logical reason?
I have over 5000 movies, 11000 TV shows and just too much music.... most of which I never actually watch or listen to (compulsive disorder anyone?)... and yet the ONLY time I've ever seen a need for 'in added order' is when I've left my PC running for a couple of hours importing new movies and I want to verify that all the movies HAVE been imported correctly. And I can manage to check this by 'number of movies' comparison with the number of movies in my sources.
I'm just really curious as to hear the 'use case' for the 'date added' order, since nobody has stated one in any of the postings (unless I've missed it)