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ptmuldoon · 2009-12-12, 14:48

I'm unfamiliar with profiles as well, but working with movie sets, do you think its possible that you can then set up profiles that prohibit the accessing of certain "Home Collection" movie sets? Keep the children out of those non-kid friendly areas.

steve1977 · 2009-12-12, 14:56

Fantastic feature and really glad that it got implemented. Any thoughts how to get the proper artwork when showing the "set folder"?

robweber · 2009-12-12, 20:04

steve1977 Wrote:Fantastic feature and really glad that it got implemented. Any thoughts how to get the proper artwork when showing the "set folder"?

You can set the movie thumbnail by using the context menu when you highlight the set in your library. Not sure about fanart if that is what you are referring to.

**sho** · 2009-12-14, 00:14

robweber Wrote:I can definitely add this to the wiki. I'll be sure to include the suggestions you've mentioned too. Thanks for the idea.

Thanks, couple of ideas more.. To make it more visually distinct from the first movie why not call the set Die Hard Collection? Also use an icon that is not directly related to one of the movies (I usually find them on tmdb, only movie sets are not working atm http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1570)

FidoFuz · 2009-12-16, 01:13

I can't seem to get Movie Sets to work at all. I've exported the library as individual NFO files, edited them to contain the XML set tag, removed them from the library and rescanned, only for the movies to come back in exactly as they were before, is there something obvious I'm missing.

I also changed the title tag in order to determine that they were being scanned in from the NFO file and indeed, the title is changed on rescanning, but the movies are not under the set name I chose in the NFO file.

joebanana · 2009-12-16, 01:23

Are you sure you put the <set> tag between the <movie></movie> one?

FidoFuz · 2009-12-16, 01:52

yup, the XML looks well formed to me, here's an example of NFOs I can't get to work and which re-scan back in as two different titles not under a set folder. Do sets work in all XBMC versions/skins? I'm using the default one from the most recent XBMC download.

Code:
<movie>

    <title>The Cell</title>

    <sorttitle>The Cell 1</sorttitle>

    <set>The Cell Collection</set>

</movie>

Code:
<movie>

    <title>The Cell 2</title>

    <sorttitle>The Cell 2</sorttitle>

    <set>The Cell Collection</set>

</movie>

FidoFuz · 2009-12-16, 04:59

Scratch that, I updated to the latest Beta and it is now working

FidoFuz · 2009-12-24, 21:02

Sigh and updated to the latest release candidate and it's not working again

elecga · 2009-12-30, 21:47

Is there any way to specify metadata and fanart for movie sets?

**sho** · 2009-12-30, 21:57

No, not yet
http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7528
http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7556

blacklist · 2010-03-29, 01:59

Not to resurrect an old thread, but after getting started and building some sets - is anyone aware of a way to creat a smart playlist that contains sets?

Basically my use is this: I have a dozen or sets defined within a 1300+ movie collection. I would like to be able to add a menu item that took me directly to my sets so I could access the group of sets outside the full listing of movies. my thought was to create a smart playlist that identified the sets and then set that as a favorite, and add it as a custom entry in the home.xml.

Any ideas how to make this work? Any help would be very much appreciated!

robweber · 2010-03-29, 15:57

I don't know about smart playlists, but if you just want to add a button to your skin you can use ActivateWindow(). Right now there is not a parameter you can pass directly like there are for other windows (ie ActivateWindow(videolibrary,movietitles) ); but you can use ActivateWindow(videolibrary,videodb://1/7/) to jump directly to the Movie Sets area.

I have submitted a patch to add 'MovieSets' to the list of parameters you can pass to make this easier, but until it gets approved you can use the above to add a menu option to your skin.

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9023

cd492 · 2010-04-02, 21:25

robweber Wrote:Movie sets work great for collections of movies like the Bond movies. The movie set will show up in your movies list as the name of the set. So if you called yours 'Bond Films' it would show up in the 'B' section under title view, and would act as a folder to all of the movies.

One thing I really like about sets is you can set the 'Set order' so that the movies will display in their release date order instead of by title for sets of films.

For some pictures of how it will show up in the library, look here: http://weberjr.com/blog/?p=160

Is there another link? This one unfortunately is down.

robweber · 2010-04-04, 19:15

cd492 Wrote:Is there another link? This one unfortunately is down.

I have uploaded the same pictures to the XBMC wiki along with a very similar explanation of what was on the site. Here is the link: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Movie_Sets

(the link being down is my bad - website renewal time came and went and I just forgot)